So...tell me, how is the GOP not listening to small business owners and the middle class Mike?  I'm not seeing it, is it because our GOP elite support illegal immigration, which undermines people's ability to get decent jobs?  Because you're Mr. Open Borders, don't think we've forgotten that, so it must not be that. 

Do you mean not doing things like raise taxes, which we know squeezes the working and middle class, because you're pretty well known for raising taxes too.  Or is it because the GOP isn't willing to give out the big shiny goodie bags like Comrade Clinton is?  Which is it Mike?

And Mitt returns to the "I'm not worried about the rich" rhetoric that he engaged in during the Iowa debate with Nurse Ratched during an interview with Greta Van Susteren.  I don't have video, but here's a transcript of his interview with Greta.  The relevant quotes,

VAN SUSTEREN: I don't begrudge you all your great success. You've been enormously successful. But in, you know, looking on the outside, and I know it's hard work, but it looks like you've lived a charmed life. And when someone is someone is middle-class, how can they be certain that you'll get them, that you'll understand?

M. ROMNEY: You know, I think as people look at my record, they'll see that I've been able to do things that affect and that touch the lives of middle income and moderate income Americans. I'm not running to help rich people. I don't stay up at night worrying about rich people and how much money they have, I'm worried...

VAN SUSTEREN: Do they need help? Do rich people need help?

M. ROMNEY: Rich people are doing just fine, thank you very much. What — the people who need help are middle income Americans and moderate income Americans.

Mitt of all people should know better than to do this crap, this is a guy who has earned a massive fortune through a free market.  Mitt knows that its wealthy individuals who invest in and purchase goods and services from those Americans of more modest means, the wealthy invest in and buy from small businesses and individuals.  Its basic economics.

He better than any knows that  "soaking the rich" almost always does the opposite.  This kind of irresponsible rhetoric gives clearance for the left to play their class warfare games.  A classic example of the poisonous effect of soaking the rich is the luxury tax on items like yachts during the first Bush administration, they decided to "soak the rich".  Which in turn, caused the US yacht industry to...er, capsize, and thousands of American workers lost their jobs.  I'm guessing those weren't rich guys, Mitt. 

Now, I admit Greta sets him up, and its easy to indulge and go along with that rhetoric, but Mitt should be above indulging in that kind of rhetoric.  Huckabee is a populist demagogue, so I'm not going to bother claiming he should know better.

If nothing else, I'll note something that Rush Limbaugh has warned the GOP about for years, if you try and out-Democrat the Democrats, you will inevitably get your ass handed to you, and Huck and Mitt sound like Democrats here.   I'll just quietly note that you don't hear this kind of demagoguery and rhetoric from Fred Thompson.

Aren't you glad Huck and Mitt are our frontrunners?

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