“Gee, what does Mitt Romney know about regular working people that don’t have the means to throw $10K around on a wager?” My mind doesn’t work that way because I wasn’t raised to “covet” or be envious of another man’s success. It happens to be against the 10th Commandment. But, what does God know?
L.A. Times reports Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has faced criticism over the years for being too guarded and impersonal on the campaign trail.
But on Sunday afternoon in Hudson, N.H., prompted by a voter who asked him to share an experience that had changed his world view, he opened up about how his experience as a Mormon missionary in France had given him an appreciation for the privileges of his upbringing.
Romney – a wealthy former business consultant who has been under fire for offering rival Rick Perry a $10,000 bet in Saturday night's debate – noted that he had grown up "with a great deal of affluence" as the son of an auto executive who became Michigan's three-term governor.
Living on no more than $110 a month in France – which Romney said was the equivalent of $500 or $600 in today's dollars – the former Massachusetts governor said he learned to live simply when he left for France in 1966 at the age of 19, stretching those dollars to cover food, clothing and rent over two and a half years in France. He lived in a series of apartments with little or no plumbing or amenities like refrigeration.
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Here’s the hypocrisy from the Left. They’ll give Romney the business for being wealthy and that means he’s out-of-touch with working middle class voters. But, they never seem to notice the silver spoons coming out of the mouths of the Kennedys who are probably more affluent than the Romney’s and they get to be bootleggers, drunkards, womanizers, and get away with murder without a scintilla’s worth of damage to their reputation or claims they’re out-of-touch.
If anybody can bet $10,000 the same way I would bet $10, God bless.
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