The End Of Mitt with the Moderates

Nobody really expects our elected officials to live like us. Oh we'd like to think they do, making them populists but we prefer that they lead us so need to have vision and keep above the common responsibilities of day to day life.

But as voters, there is also a breaking point. A point at which keeping above the fray as it were, becomes just bs.

Mitt Romney has gotten to the point where we either wear boots because it's getting deep every time he talks or we change the channel.

The moderate voters are the ones who will decide this coming election. And most moderate voters are well grounded in the responsibilites of day to day life.

Almost with each passing week, Mitt Romney is creating a bigger and bigger disconnect.

The common man's 'offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands.
'Mr. Romney’s IRA has grown so large, it appears, due to investments in various vehicles managed by Bain Capital, the investment fund he helped found in 1984. His latest financial disclosure report, filed in August, shows that many of the IRAs assets are in Bain-affiliated entities located offshore, including one in the Cayman Islands that the report listed as having a value of between $5 million and $25 million'.
From : http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/01/19/romney-iras-offshore-investments-helping-his-tax-bill/

$374,327.62 is 'not very much' according to Mitt.
"It's probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything," said Romney on Tuesday. "For the past 10 years, my income comes overwhelmingly from investments made in the past, rather than ordinary income or earned annual income. I got a little bit of income from my book, but I gave that all away. Then, I get speakers fees from time to time, but not very much."
'Not very much? According to his personal financial disclosure, from February 2010 to February 2011, Romney earned $374,327.62 in speaking fees'.
From : http://news1.capitalbay.com/government-politics/323134-romney-says-374-327-is-not-much-for-speaking-fee.html

Mitt - 'I'm also unemployed'.
'TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on Thursday, listening to a group of unemployed Floridians explain the challenges of looking for work. When they finished, he weighed in with a predicament of his own'.
“I should tell my story,” Mr. Romney said. “I’m also unemployed.”
From : http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/romney-im-also-unemployed/

Buddy cana you share 10 grand for a side bet?
'If Mitt Romney had said $10 or a $1 million, the line might have flown right by, but offering Rick Perry a $10,000 bet on stage at Saturday night’s debate gave his opponents a perfect new way to cast him as an out-of-touch rich guy'.
From : http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70246.html