Romney: Occupy Wall Street 'wrong way to go'

[Simfan34]

He could have done better with this obviously. His primary objective was to condemn the ridiculous antics of these protestors. If he didn't he would be called out on it and have it used to make the case that he is a closet librul. At the same time he wanted to avoid what Cain fell right into. That is the trap of making one sound out of touch with economic hardships by saying something like what Cain did regarding "blaming yourself for being unemployed".

Precisely. The GOP has become radicalized. If the Dems become radicalized, then this country is doomed.

[Simfan34]

I maintain that these protests are composed of hipsters, college students, and ex-hippies, and I've not seen evidence to the contrary sans a few singular examples.

[Simfan34]

I maintain that these protests are composed of hipsters, college students, and ex-hippies, and I've not seen evidence to the contrary sans a few singular examples.

I was in St. Louis the other day, where Occupy protests have begun to be staged, and there were a fair number of teachers with doctoral and postdoctoral degrees out there who had lost jobs after one-year term contracts and are now unemployed, as well as some veterans and families that had recently lost their houses to foreclosure.  So, do these peopmle not matter in America anymore, or if economic circumstances have conspired to decimate their lives and they're having a hard time making it on their own, then to hell with them?  Call them hipsters and dope-addicts and social waste and get one with the business of austerity and reducing corporate taxes, right?   Make sure to plaster those messages on the campaign bus, they're real vote-getters.   

And the rest of them? I don't deny that this movement had the potential to attract many. But at this point, it's composed of those who have already been radicalized. Perhaps it's movering fastert than I thought it would.