President Obama isn’t the only presidential contender hoping to look like a “warrior for the middle class” – Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, and former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., are both making a play for the middle class.
At a campaign event yesterday, Romney seemed to identify himself with “the people who have been hurt most by this Obama economy,” whom he called “the great middle class — the 80 to 90 percent of us in this country.”
The comment prompted Perry’s campaign to attack “Middle Class Mitt” by pointing out that Romney “has a net worth of up to $250 million . . . [and] a successful career acquiring and dismantling companies and jobs.”
The attack might put Perry in an awkward position, though, if only because it echoes a Democrat line of attack on Romney. Perry, of course, has criticized Romney for “sounding like a Democrat” in response to the former Massachusetts governor criticizing Perry’s position on Social Security.
You can watch the video, recorded by the liberal American Bridge 21st Century pac, of Romney talking about taxes and the middle class below.
