Mitt's moment of political honesty...

[kentuck]

"I don't really care about the very poor", he said. Also, he didn't care about the very rich. Only those voters in the middle.

Unlike most Republicans, he was honest about the very poor. They don't really care about them. They would like to cut food stamps, school lunches, Medicare, Medicaid, homeless shelters, and all aid to the poor. They think it creates a dependency. So Mitt was only being honest.

There are some lies that have to be perpetuated in order for the Republican Party to continue to exist. "Caring for the poor" is one of those lies that they cannot tell the truth about. That's why they are so pissed at Mitt today. You can believe it but just don't say it...

[Enrique]

1. but he lied about caring about the middle class

and about his thinking the rich don't need any more help.

In fact his policies are directed for the benefit to the rich, not the middle class.

[kentuck]

2. Yes, he is a liar.

On all fronts. He just slipped and told the truth about the very poor.

[magical thyme]

6. it all depends on how you define the middle class

If you consider anybody making under, say $250K, to be "poor," then the middle class becomes something altogether different than what the rest of us consider middle class.

I wish I could remember where I read this, but apparently within the "wealthy" there is a further subdivision. Under $10M was considered "poor wealth," $10-? was medium wealth. I forget what they considered to be real wealth.

[liberal N proud]

3. Oh but now that he was called out for that it was taken out of context.

[ellenfl]

4. more interesting, imo,

is that he said he would fortify the safety net for the poor if necessary . . . while other repubs are vowing to destroy it. did he show his not-so-conservative hand with that comment?

ellen fl

[Sheepshank]

5. Mitt has a distorted view of middle class

he honestly thinks they can be bought with fake baubles and shallow flattery.

[magical thyme]

7. "I LIKE firing people" was another moment of truth

The long, stunned silence of the audience, coupled with his long silence while he searched for a lifeline, made clear that his babbling about firing health insurance companies was nothing but an attempt to spin an acceptable context.

No normal person likes firing people, because for normal people at the least it means somebody screwed up and left an expensive mess to clean up. It may be the business owner who screwed up and now has to find a way back into the black. Or an employee who screwed up, but you really wish they'd just done the job right to begin with because cleaning up messes, re-training new people, whatever, is expensive.

It's only when you rake in millions cleaning up the mess that you like firing people.