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They Call Him Flipper: Mitt Romney Does Double-Flip On The 99%

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is already famous for changing positions more often than a porn star with Restless Leg Syndrome, but his latest is a rare faster than lightning double-flip. Just last week, he was haranguing an apparent Occupy protester for “trying to divide the nation” into the 99% and the 1%. Yesterday, though, Romney happily co-opted the OWS division, telling Univision “”The 1 percents doing fine. I want to help the 99 percent.”

RELATED: Mitt Romney Hits Back At Occupy Questioner, Andrea Mitchell Calls Exchange ‘Reagan-esque’

That protester asked Romney “What will you do to support the 99%,” which enraged the former Governor at the time, but his remarks yesterday sound an awful lot like a much nicer answer to that question. ”The 1 percents doing fine,” he said. “I want to help the 99 percent. I want to help middle Americans get jobs that pay good wages, and I’m going to go to work to do that.”

Progressive PAC American Bridge chronicled Romney’s new-found affinity for America-divvying in a new web video:


But that’s not all!

Several months before he went off on that Occupy protester for “trying to divide the nation,” Gov. Romney divided the nation, although he altered the math slightly. In another moment immortalized by American Bridge, Romney told a crowd that he wanted to provide help to “the great middle class, the 80 to 90 percent of us in this country.”


Yes, he said “us,” and yes, he said he did not want to help the poor.

This near-360 of class pandering illustrates the difficulty of Romney’s “politics of envy” talking point: he’s basically telling the same group of people “You’re just jealous of me! Now vote for me!”

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  • Anonymous

    The nutcases of the wall street protesters,so to speak,just hate anyone like Mitt for having money which HE EARNED, as opposed to their idol barack for living on the taxpayers..what about the following “part of the 99%”,like Kerry(who earned his bllions by marrying)….then there is the God of God Roosevelt whose family was uber rich,then there are the famous Kennedys(bootlegging fortune)…so who the hell are those who go after Romny for his wealth….Hyporcrites all…

  • sean dunlap

    if you are not them you do not know what they think, try listening just a llittle instead of preaching all the time. occupyers just think the 1% should not get special tax cuts

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NRXU7LAJ2DLVHPGX25WOQR3RI4 chris l

    Wow, Tommy.  You managed to make absolutely zero sense with this one.  It’s a feat that you manage to accomplish on a daily basis.  You feeling okay? 

  • J. D. Mendez

    Hmmm… Mitt INHERITED his wealth, which he admittedly increased (without producing anything except capital gains, no cars, medical devices, books or publishers, not even a pet rock) and certainly without generating any jobs at any time, not even indirectly or over time. I don’t remember any Kennedy, Roosevelt or John Kerry ever claiming to be “part of the 99%” as Mitt recently did (!!!). And if Obama is living off (not on) the taxpayers it’s because he’s been elected to a public service job – as was Mitt when he was governor of MA. And Obama, before entering politics, was a teacher and community activist (read: COMMIE!!!). Finally, Mitt’s last lame is spelled “Romney”. Oh, well, I just have a habit of double checking my spelling before I post, to avoid other types of nutcases who nitpick  ;-D

  • J. D. Mendez

    HUH??? What part didn’t you understand?

  • RW

    “Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is already famous for changing positions more often than a porn star with Restless Leg Syndrome”    — Tommy Christopher

    Will you still be in the White House Press briefings when Mitt Romney is elected president? 

    I know, a liberal reporter in the White House press briefings is ok, right? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Valdez/1806887704 Steven Valdez

    They call him flipper! flipper! Hahaha… 

  • Anonymous

    Really?

    “Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is already famous for changing positions more often than a porn star with Restless Leg Syndrome” 

    You couldn’t understand that? Maybe the problem is you, not TC!

  • Anonymous

    Next thing you know he’ll promise to shut down GItmo. Oh… wait…. Wrong “flipper”.

  • Anonymous

    Of course this is by Tommy.  Splitting hairs aren’t you DNC activist?    He still disagrees, as does most of the country, with the 99% vs 1% but since the liberal media love it he keeps getting asked about it.  Fact is there is a top 1% just like there’s a top 5% and 40% and 13%.  As he said, the top 1% are doing just fine, they don’t need his help, the other 99% (or at least most of them) do.

    No flip flop there, continue dreaming.

  • Anonymous

    you say,incorrectly,he created no jobs:One of the start ups that his company saved and then that company created and still employ thousands,STAPLES,maybe in your ignorance,never heard of…there were many others..How about saving the Olympics…saved thousands of jobs worldwide..had the olympics failed,would not many have lost jobs and status….You always check your posts? Okay so lame (name)is properly spelled…Now who is the “nutcase” who “nitpicks”hum?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Sounds like everyone here understood it but you.

    As you get older you will understand that if you ask someone to explain it to you, they will gladly do so.  If you tell them that their explanation sucks, you will look like an ass.

  • Anonymous

    Stolen from a Bush campaign commercial about John Kerry in 2004…

    TC still hasn’t gotten over that.

  • Anonymous

    He’ll have to change his name again since he would have lost all credibility for spending more time criticizing those who criticize the current white house instead of reporting on the current white house.

  • http://twitter.com/MinneMike Michael Wiley

    Must be something about Mass pols. Senator John Francios Kerry was a renown flipper.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YCCUIOEO5JI5NKXFLDIRUF6X3U Phil

    Did Mediaite just compare a serious presidential candidate to a porn star?  That is totally unacceptable.

  • Anonymous

    True, Mitt Romney is nothing like John Kerry. At least Mitt Romney has always been consistent on issues such as health care, cap & trade, abortion, & gay marriage.

  • Anonymous

    Will you still be here when aliens invade & force us all to do musicals?

  • Anonymous

    Looks like you & Tommy have a lot in common then.

  • Anonymous

    True they hate Mitt, that’s why they asked him such a vicious question like “what will you do for us if you become president?”. Quite an inappropriate question if you ask me.

  • RW

    I don’t know what this means but I find it very humorous for some reason.

  • RW

    Exactly!  And they don’t get.

  • RW

    The liberal media will stop at nothing to protect President Obama.  Liberals jump up and down demanding civility.  Civility for me but not for thee.  More of the same just another day.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

    Wow another pro-obama, anti-republican piece by Tommy (or whatever his real name is). I hope the DNC is paying you by the article as you are working overtime this week. But then again everything you write is make believe just like your fake name.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NRXU7LAJ2DLVHPGX25WOQR3RI4 chris l

    I understand the meme but this piece by TC is about nothing.  Per usual.  Pssst…Romney has like a lot of money too. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NRXU7LAJ2DLVHPGX25WOQR3RI4 chris l

    I understand the point TC is trying to make.  It’s not my fault he fails.  You lap it up because it’s about a politician you don’t like.  That doesn’t mean the point is valid or makes sense. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NRXU7LAJ2DLVHPGX25WOQR3RI4 chris l

    Yawn.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NRXU7LAJ2DLVHPGX25WOQR3RI4 chris l

    He’s trying out for his own show at current but Olbermann is saying, “man, that dude is craaazy”. 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    perhaps you could point out the pro Obama section for us.
    Just because Tommy refuses your advances does not mean you get to cry about it in public.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    tee hee hee

  • Anonymous

    Bain Capital was NOT the initial investor in Staples. Bain invested AFTER other V.C. firms had invested. Initially, Bain turned them down. And, it’s the analysts at Bain who presented the numbers about the investment.

    I don’t know about the Olympics, but were the problems primarily financial? If so, that IS up Romney’s alley. His whole career has been to parlay his father’s power and connections into fundraising among the wealthy. He’s a fundraiser, not a manager. He did NOT run Staples or any of the other companies that Bain invested in.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    tee hee hee

  • http://twitter.com/MinneMike Michael Wiley

    John Francois Kerry (aka Buckshot)

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Correct. Romney is no porn star. That is Gingrich’s side job.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Mittens can’t be trusted, even Republicans know that!!

    Also: “Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is already famous for changing positions more often than a porn star with Restless Leg Syndrome,”… that was Classic!!  =)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Well, Mittens certainly does blow.

    Also, apparently the bar for being a “serious” presidential candidate has been lowered, if we’re going to treat the Republican field as serious.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    He still disagrees, as does most of the country, with the 99% vs 1

    That would be where you’re wrong.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Mittens will never be president.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Bain is not responsible for Staples. There were a minority investor in the company, that’s all. Bain did not create jobs, it destroyed them.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    The problem isn’t that Mittens is rich. The problem is that he wants a tax code already rigged in favor of the rich to be rigged to an even greater degree. We’re fine with people making lots of money, as long as they pay fair taxes on that money.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    ewww

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    came back for another laugh

    more often than a porn star with Restless Leg Syndrome

    Thanks Tommy

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