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Romney's Father was on Welfare

tererun said:
I don't think anyone is looking for a gotcha moment with Romney anymore. They pretty much have a ton of them. this is just an amusing point.
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Sorry it seems more of a non sequiter to me.
 
Quag said:
I just don`t think this is even newsorthy let alone relevant. that is my point.
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and so irrelevant that you insist on repeatedly posting about it
got it
 
tererun said:
I don't think anyone is looking for a gotcha moment with Romney anymore. They pretty much have a ton of them. this is just an amusing point.
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I agree about the gotchas, and while amusing to speculate whether his would expect his own father to vote for him, to me, it speaks to the point that though his father had hard times growing up and was a man who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, Mitt seems to have no, or little, emotional connection to his father's struggles, and therefore no empathy for the hundreds of millions of Americans who face those same struggles right now. Certainly his condescension in the 47% speech, seems to demonstrate just that.

I don't want a candidate to self-flagellate on the stump over those who are struggling, but I think they should be able to communicate some genuine concern, or at the least not insult them.
 
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Romney's father was Welfare but Obama's father was a top CIA agent who was far from broke?


WOW....looks like Bozo can't say he's had it harder than Romney then.
 
Middleground said:
So he's looking into those Diebolt voting machines, ain't he?
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I hadn't heard there was a glitch that allows two-year old welfare recipients to vote.
 
Quag said:
Is there a point to this? What I mean is what difference does it make if he was or wasn`t on welfare?
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It really doesn't matter, but I think the point is that he was once in the category that Romney apparently despises. Lots of people at some point in their lives don't make enough to pay income taxes, that doesn't mean that they are slackers or undeserving like Romney has implied.
 
MaggieD said:
Not at all. He's an idiot. When will politicians learn that "the mike is always live"? I just think it's immaterial. So his dad was on welfare when he was a child. This somehow makes Romney less than he is? I'm just sick of the "gotcha games." I mean, is this what someone will base their vote on? Really?
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No not at all. It just points out some hypocrisy in Romney's rhetoric. By Romney's definition of who will not vote for him, his own dad, at least in his younger years, wouldn't have voted for Mit.
 
areafiftyone said:
Oh I know he ran. Too bad he didn't win. I think he had more character than his son and so does his mother. But of course it was a different generation that could be why.
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He actually lost because he said something stupid in public. I don't remember exactly what it was, but I did read about it recently.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
 
imagep said:
It really doesn't matter, but I think the point is that he was once in the category that Romney apparently despises. Lots of people at some point in their lives don't make enough to pay income taxes, that doesn't mean that they are slackers or undeserving like Romney has implied.
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best answer so far thanx, Still think it's pretty irrelevant but at least you made a cogent link
 
MaggieD said:
Just how many idiots are "working the internet: digging up crap? I sure hope the guy who found that didn't make a nickel. What an idiot. Is this what politics has come to? Is this the "gift" that is the internet??
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The same amount of idiots who are digging up crap about Obama, such as the flavor of the week redistribution of wealth clip that the right wing is so fond of bringing up. It's an election year. This kind of **** happens on both sides of the aisle and has been for some time and yet, you call foul now?
 
why is this supposed to matter?

my pops did, said, and believed lots of things I look down upon...just saying
 
Thrilla said:
why is this supposed to matter?

my pops did, said, and believed lots of things I look down upon...just saying
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Really think Bush II would have gotten elected without riding on his father's coattails? Hell, he wouldn't even have gotten into Yale if he wasn't a super legacy. It works both ways, if you want to take advantage of the positives in your family history then you have to accept the stuff that doesn't exactly help you.
 
Dr_Patrick said:
The same amount of idiots who are digging up crap about Obama, such as the flavor of the week redistribution of wealth clip that the right wing is so fond of bringing up. It's an election year. This kind of **** happens on both sides of the aisle and has been for some time and yet, you call foul now?
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The difference is Obama was an adult expressing his political views, which he is accountable for.

Romney's dad was just a toddler. HUGE difference.
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1060935677 said:
The difference is Obama was an adult expressing his political views, which he is accountable for.

Romney's dad was just a toddler. HUGE difference.
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Not much. The argument goes that welfare furthers denpendency. Based on that argument, Romney's father should have stayed on welfare, as shoudl have Romney. However, there is little fact to base the argument on that welfare fosters denpendency, though facts don't matter much in these debates.
 
Loki97 said:
Really think Bush II would have gotten elected without riding on his father's coattails? Hell, he wouldn't even have gotten into Yale if he wasn't a super legacy. It works both ways, if you want to take advantage of the positives in your family history then you have to accept the stuff that doesn't exactly help you.
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no... you can choose to look down on some aspects while appreciating and taking advantage of other aspects.
 
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