The Democratic National Committee put out a new ad on Friday, featuring Mitt Romney. I doubt Romney was a willing participant in this video, as some of the things said in the ad were a bit unsettling.
The ad below shows a clip of Mitt Romney expressing his preferred method of handling foreclosures, and the words he spoke would put fear into the hearts of any family who finds themselves in the unfortunate position of losing their home. “Don’t try and stop the foreclosure process,” Romney said. “Let it run its course and hit the bottom, allowing investors to buy their homes, put renters in them, fix the homes, and let it turn around and come back up. The right course is to let markets work. And in order to get markets to work and to help people, the best we can do is to get the economy going.”
In a conference call with reporters, Brad Woodhouse, the communications director for the DNC said;
“To Mitt Romney, houses aren’t places where people raise their families and build lives. They’re investments to make a profit. Mitt Romney is out of touch. He’s out of touch with what’s going on with this country, he’s out of touch with the middle class.”
Out of touch with the middle class correctly describes the millionaire Mitt Romney. He has never had to deal with the misfortune of losing his home, or should I say homes, or should I say mansions. So it is totally natural for him to think of investors over families. Imagine that decision-making in the White House, as Mitt Romney attempts to become the Republican nominee to take on President Obama in 2012.
Watch the ad below.
It never ceases to amaze how truly out of touch most politicians really are. But then who among us can afford to be in politics? We have to work for a living.
You've taken what Mr. Romney said entirely out of context and tried to skew his remarks to say things he never really intended. The idea (which he has talked about on numerous occasions) is that by allowing investors to buy homes they would remove the ownership difficulties that the previous proprietors had been encountering, BUT ALSO allow families who maybe could not afford their mortgage payments, cheaper, short-term living options that would allow them to come up from the weight of their previous debts. Mitt Romney doesn't have some irrational disdain for the middle class as you would have your readers believe, but rather he's simply offering options that help solve the housing crisis without further government involvement. As a fiscal democrat, I can only commend his ingenuity.