Thursday, January 29, 2015

New Retooled GOP: Standing Against Povery and With the Poor

The New Mitt Romney
(what he implies)

What I Offer the GOP


Both parties felt like they had something to prove in the aftermath of Obama SOTU message: 

•  Democrats want to be seen as saviors of the middle-class.
•  Republicans are trying cast themselves as the new defenders of America’s underclass. 

The President focused on “middle-class economics” in his speech and then later GOP Sen. Joni Ernst (R- IA) emphasized her family’s economic hardships growing up, connecting them to the concerns of ordinary Americans, saying in part: “You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry.”  All the while she described her work on the family farm, construction, and at Hardee’s when she was growing up.  

And, from here: In his first public remarks since telling GOP donors that he is weighing a third bid for the White House, Mitt Romney suggested Friday that if he does run he would alter the focus that led to his loss in 2012 to President Obama. He said, in part to hundreds of Republican National Committee members and their guests at a dinner aboard the aircraft carrier Midway, berthed in San Diego Harbor.  

“I believe in the post-Obama era we need to stand for safety, and for opportunity for all people, and we have to stand for helping lift people out of poverty.” 

Stay tuned that awful “free stuff” the GOP bashes Obama/DEMS and hell, just about everyone else they are now prepared to provide??? Or have misjudged their new image?

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