Thomas Lifson noted here yesterday at AT that the Democrats are unrelenting in their attacks on Mitt Romney for his wealth. OK, let’s take a little closer look at that. Mitt Romney can’t possibly be president of this country because he’s too rich, with a net worth in excess of $250 million. This fortune, built up over decades by Romney’s work as one of America’s premier capitalists and corporate creators, is disqualifying because he can’t possibly understand what it is to be just one of the people ? <\/p>\n
So says the Democrat Party whose candidate for the presidency in 2004 was John Forbes Kerry, scion of the Forbes dynasty<\/a>, a man with a net worth of $230 million. And interestingly, said JFK didn’t build his fortune from a fertile nest egg; it came in the form of trust funds from his mother who had married exceedingly well. As did her son, whose spouse, Teresa Heinz, has an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion. On their combined incomes the struggling Kerry’s manage to maintain the following residences<\/a>:<\/p>\n Heinz and Kerry live an affluent life. They own a six-floor, $7 million townhome in Boston’s Beacon Hill<\/a> neighborhood, a $9 million ocean-front home on Nantucket<\/a>, a $5 million ski retreat in Idaho<\/a>, a $4 million estate in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania<\/a>, near the Heinz family’s home base of Pittsburgh, and a $5 million home in the Georgetown neighborhood<\/a> of Washington, D.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So here’s the man of the people, a guy with a six-floor home<\/a>, that the Democrats tried to run for president in 2004, who is somehow imminently qualified because he inherited a couple of hundred million from mommy, married a billion more from a grieving widow and has never worked a day in his life at building anything except bigger governments; but he’s just a hunky-dory representative of the good ol’ down to earth Democrat Party, a man of the people, right? The hypocrisy of the Democrat Party and their controlled mainstream media propagandists is boundless. What’s worse, they are totally and completely contemptuous in believing that the American public is so stupid that it won’t remember that the Democrat candidate for president in 2004 was a billionaire trust fund baby and gigolo<\/a> who was so totally out of touch with mainstream America that many voters truly believed he really was French.<\/p>\n