Askin me, mate?
Romney is pretty damn center for a GOP... and absolutely is attempting to appeal to the hardcore conservative base. I actually look at him and think he's shit scared half the time because he's a weak public speaker, and is super freaked out he's going to say something not 'tea party' enough and lose his own base. He's got to walk an extremely thin line in that party what with where his position is within it. Which is absurd and pretty sad.
He's got to completely hide his faith, and basically is forced to run a smeared, fear tactic campaign against Obama, rather than hyping himself up in any way. Seeing as Obama ran and won 4 years ago with a mostly positive campaign hyping himself up within his own party (and the world... remember when like 400000 people in Berlin came to see him on HIS euro tour four years back? That's probably more people than Hitler ever got.. Romney couldn't touch a 10th of that - especially what with how awful he did on his own tour that he just took)
It's really unfortunate for Romney, as honestly, if he was able to run his policies right, he'd probably be a really good president. He's been successful in things in the past, and is damn near as much of a political moderate as the GOP has seen in years in his position. If there wasn't that whole ultra Neo-Con base on the right, there wouldn't be such an issue here, and he'd likely be having a far easier campaign - he also wouldn't have as many absolute retards running it, I imagine.
And in reality, middle class is more around the 40k-60k mark in this country... albeit, that entirely depends on the living cost of what area of the country said salary would be in. 40-60k isn't the same in New York City as it is in Kansas City or Oklahoma City...
250k-300k might be middle class in like.. the HAMPTONS... or LA JOLLA... but in real America? It's fucking rich. Especially when you're taking home 65% of that after income taxes.
