What do you all think about Mitt saying "I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it."?
Stupid comment that may very well come back to haunt him.
#1, as you said, it goes against party principles about even having a "safety net."
#2, even leaving #1 aside, I don't disagree with what he was
trying to say, but what he actually said doesn't sound a whole lot like what he was trying to say.
And by the way, in context, here is what I believe he was actually trying to communicate: What he was trying to say is NOT that he doesn't
care about the poor; what he was trying to say is that the very rich don't need help, and there are programs in place to help the very poor (and he said right after that that those programs need to be fixed so that they work better and more efficiently). So given those facts, his focus is on the vast majority that fall somewhere in between. Again, not an issue of not caring about the poor. But rather an issue of where to put more focus, the thought being that, for the poor, it takes a lot less energy to improve programs that are already in place than to spend a ton of energy trying to create something new. His really sloppy way of saying that is going to haunt him, I just know it. It really makes him sound out of touch.