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

During a campaign stop in Charleston, South Carolina, a revved-up Mitt Romney got into a spirited tussle with an Occupy Wall Street-sympathetic questioner. “What will you do to support the 99%, seeing as how you are part of the 1%?” “Let me tell you something!” Romney exclaimed. “America is a great nation because we’re a united nation, and those who are trying to divide the nation, as you’re trying to do here, and as our president’s doing are hurting this country seriously.”

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“The right course for America is not to divide America, and try and divide us between one and another, it’s to come together as a nation,” Romney continued. “And if you’ve got a better model, if you think China’s better or Russia’s better or Cuba’s better or North Korea’s better, I’m glad to hear more about it. America’s right and you’re wrong!”

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell complimented Romney on his enthusiastic response.

“Well, that seemed to be Romney taking advantage of an opportunity,” Mitchell observed. “Because it seemed to be an Occupy or some other protester accusing him of being part of the 1%, which he certainly is, according to financial disclosures, but more broadly, he took that on and reframed it and showed an aggressiveness, it looked, with all due respect, almost Reagan-esque, going after a protester and making it his case.”

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