Mitt Romney is Building a Big House. So What?

So the media is abuzz today that Mitt Romney has plans to tear down his 3,000 square foot beach front home in La Jolla, California and replace it with an 11,000 square foot home. (Note NPR’s sarcasm about the matter.) Yes, this doesn’t exactly scream “man of the people” and these kinds of splashy displays of wealth turn off voters. However, it’s not exactly a secret that Romney is incredibly wealthy now is it?

Further, you have to admire the chutzpah of the media here — it’s not like rich politicians with big houses are a new phenomenon. Let’s take a gander at John Kerry’s real estate portfolio — and I’m pretty sure you can see John Edwards’ house from space. And what of the decades of romanticizing the “Kennedy compound“?