Watch: Romney outlines agenda - including fixing poverty?

[Likely Voter]

The new Mitt Romney is all about the poors. Here is Romney's RNC speech from last night.
http://www.msnbc.com/shift/watch/romney-speaks-at-rnc-meeting-385276995848
(jump to 15 min mark)

He outlines 3 GOP principles for "post-Obama era"
1. "We have to make the world safer"
2. "We have to make sure and provide opportunity for all Americans, regardless of the neighborhood they live in"
3. "We have to lift people out of poverty" (he even mentions income inequality)

 

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I suppose he's finally learned that the comment he made in the primaries on this ("I'm not concerned about the very poor") was a big mistake.

1 lesson learned, Mr. Romney, but 19,832 more to go.

[Mehmentum]

It doesn't take a cynic to doubt that Romney has genuinely become champion of the poor in the last 2 years.  Especially since just another entry in a long line of issues that Romney has changed positions on.

[AelroseB]

Looks like Romney has been visiting americanhistoryusa.

[Angel of Death]

He sounds like he underwent a software update.

[Indy Texas]

I guess I'd better try to remember the password for the Mitt Romney parody Twitter account I briefly used during early 2012.

https://twitter.com/letthemeatmitt

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Obviously Romney is a terrible person to deliver the message, but poverty is a very important issue that the GOP needs to focus on. As they increasingly rely on Appalachia, they need to convey how they believe their solutions will "fix" poverty. Nobody "likes" poverty, people just disagree on the means it can be fixed. Obviously as a green I disagree with right-wing solutions for poverty and inequality, but the GOP has so far never laid out a clear road map for any solution to the problem.

[Blair]

Good old Rommey, another sign that this man will say anything to get elected-first he was moderate Mitt who passed healthcare reform and 'opposed reagan-bush', then he become conservative Mitt who opposed everything, now he's progressive Mitt....

The worse thing is that Romney thinks this will work

[Lincoln Republican]

Mitt should have taken a populist stance in 2012.  He may have won.

[retromike22]

Does he know which party's primary he's running in?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Mitt should have taken a populist stance in 2012.  He may have won.

a) How many stances can this guy have, only the 'wide' stance is missing and Larry Craig's got that one covered.

b) You cannot run as a populist with his donor base, unless he's lying through his teeth to someone, and that'll come back and bite him - one way or another.

c) and the GOP that venerates St Reagan, that gutted support and sent the poverty rate back to pre-Great Society levels, 'cause, 'muh freez mahket'... really needs to find a new idea (ideally one based on evidence).

[Likely Voter]

Yes if he ran as a populist he would totally be president now.

No worries about things he said like...
"Corporations are people"
"I like being able to fire people"
"I'm not concerned about the very poor"
"there are 47 percent who....are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims...so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives"

Those certainly would not have suddenly become even more hypocritical and make his populist campaign completely ludicrous

[Maxwell]

He already tried the "populist" route by China baiting. It didn't work.

[Lincoln Republican]

Yes if he ran as a populist he would totally be president now.

No worries about things he said like...
"Corporations are people"
"I like being able to fire people"
"I'm not concerned about the very poor"
"there are 47 percent who....are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims...so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives"

Those certainly would not have suddenly become even more hypocritical and make his populist campaign completely ludicrous

If Romney had been running a populist campaign he would not have made the above statements.

[Maxwell]

Yes if he ran as a populist he would totally be president now.

No worries about things he said like...
"Corporations are people"
"I like being able to fire people"
"I'm not concerned about the very poor"
"there are 47 percent who....are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims...so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives"

Those certainly would not have suddenly become even more hypocritical and make his populist campaign completely ludicrous

If Romney had been running a populist campaign he would not have made the above statements.

The thing is, those statements ARE who Mitt Romney is. He can't help it. Do you think he purposely gaffes?

[Likely Voter]

Yes if he ran as a populist he would totally be president now.

No worries about things he said like...
"Corporations are people"
"I like being able to fire people"
"I'm not concerned about the very poor"
"there are 47 percent who....are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims...so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives"

Those certainly would not have suddenly become even more hypocritical and make his populist campaign completely ludicrous

If Romney had been running a populist campaign he would not have made the above statements.

None of those quotes were part of his official stump speech, they were spontanous things that revealed his Thurston Howell nature. You can also add "10,000 dollar bet" and the realities of his immense wealth but low tax rate and (as noted today by GOP strategist Matt Dowd) "I think it’s very problematic for Mitt Romney, who has car elevators, to run a campaign on poverty."

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/abcs-dowd-knocks-romney-you-cant-own-car-elevators-and-run-on-poverty/

Yes the GOP should address poverty, but even before the 2012 campaign, Romney was the last guy in the party to be the person to lead that charge. And of course now it is completely ridiculous and is a transparent craven attempt to add a software patch to his previous glitch.