What Romney's Tax Returns Say About Him

[DeathToTheOil]

Key fact beginning at 54-second mark: Mitty making $57,000 daily while the average American FAMILY earns $50,221 annually.

In the background as I type this, there's a World War II doc on History Chennel Canada, describing how Patton and Montgomery's forces fought the Nazis.

I find myself wondering, What for?

[pacalo]

1. He got a thrill out of Ted Kennedy's having to mortgage his home.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/romney-defends-his-conservatism-ted-kennedy-had-to-take-out-a-mortgage-to-beat-me/

The question proposed to Romney was whether he had an answer to many who called him “insufficiently conservative.” “I have a record,” he replied, but immediately added,“and the fun of running against Ted Kennedy, what a great thrill that was. I didn’t beat him, but he had to take a mortgage out on his house to make sure he could defeat me.”(...)

The mortgage quip is a line that Romney has used before, and it received similar levels of cringing last time, but as this has been one of the more low-key debates as far as tone and flair is concerned, something about him emphasizing the mortgage taken out just screams “tone deaf.” After what happened to the housing market in 2008, trying to get people to like him by bragging that he forced someone else to take out a mortgage on their house is Romney is a major unforced error on his part that adds to the image of him as Monopoly Man caricature.