Top-50 List of Romney’s All-Time, Out-of-Touch, 1% Moments – ‘Class Size Doesn’t Matter’ Edition
Debuting at #28: CNN, May 24, 2012 : “Romney defends class size stance to teachers” : ‘Mitt Romney, who is spending this week promoting a plan for America's public school system, spent Thursday morning defending his stance that smaller class sizes don't necessarily equate with better learning in schools.’
Serious Question: Is there a parent in America who thinks it makes no difference in the quality of their kid(s)’ education if class sizes are bigger? And let's not forget that Romney himself made sure his 5 sons went to private schools with small class sizes.
On to the list, which has doubled in size since the last edition because the sheer volume of Romney’s gazillionaire gaffes in recent weeks has left us with no other choice…
50) Mitt Romney Discusses His Horse’s “Gait” With Sean Hannity : "What kind of horses do you have?" asks Hannity. "[Anne] has Austrian warmbloods," says Romney, "It's a dressage horse ... for the sport she's in." "Me? I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait -- it moves very fast." [Huffington Post, 4/10/12]
49) “Romney: Politics For The Rich; His father told him he shouldn't go into politics if he had a mortgage to pay. Most people have mortgages to pay” [BuzzFeed, Jan. 8, 2012]
48) “Mitt Romney Fondly Recalls French Vacations, Anticipates More” [Huffington Post, 4/23/12]
47) “An Aloof Romney in a Plane Encounter” : “As a physician who heads a financial planning company and prides herself on having read every page of President Obama’s health care reform bill, Ms. McClanahan, 47, recognized that it’s not every day you’re seated next to a presidential candidate on a two-hour flight. According to Ms. McClanahan, about an hour into the flight — which Mr. Romney mostly spent reading USA Today and using an iPad while wearing headphones — she told him her idea for improving the American health care system: slashing overhead costs by switching to an electronic billing system. “He looked at me blankly and said, ‘I understand,’ then put his iPad headphones in and kept reading,” she said. [New York Times, November 6, 2011]
46) Romney: I’d Like To Repeal Wall Street Reform [Think Progress, Aug 25, 2011] // Poll Demonstrates Broad Support for Financial Reform; 77% of Americans want Tougher Rules for Wall Street [Lake Research Partners, Dec. 5, 2011] // In Related Note: “Wall Street Money Continues to Flow to Republican Mitt Romney” [Center for Responsive Politics, February 2, 2012] // SEE ALSO: Senate Banking Committee Fact Sheet: “Dodd-Frank Creates a Sound Economic Foundation to Grow Jobs, Protects Consumers, Reins in Wall Street and Big Bonuses, Ends Bailouts and Too Big to Fail, Prevents Another Financial Crisis”
45) ROMNEY ON WEALTH AMASSED AT BAIN CAPITAL ‘GUESS WHAT? I MADE A LOT OF MONEY; “I’ve been very successful. I’m not going to apologize for that.” [Think Progress, Mar 14, 2012] // Guess that means Romney is not going to