Is billionaire Mitt Romney meant to provide "balance" to the ticket with multi-millionaire McCain?

Question

Kind of like FOX provides "balance" to the news industry?

Answer 1

Mitt is not a billionaire, and I don't think he's a serious option for the Republican ticket.

McCain beat multi-millionaires to get the chance to run against a multi-millionaire who lost the popular vote in the democratic primary against a multi-millionaire.

They are all multi-millionaires, so get over it.

Your Fox News comparison is flawed, Fox News is the conservative biased news that counters to some degree the overwhelming majority of television news services having a liberal bias. Adding a billionaire to a multi-millionaire would tip it even further to the rich side, so your comparison is not the same thing.

Answer 2

Well as you know, McCain thinks that people that make 5 million a year are rich

those that make 3 or 4 million a year, to him are middle class

I mean, gee whiz, if you know how many houses you own, you may be a poor person !!!

Answer 3

Romney is very successful, and he works hard.  Romney is an excellent businessman who understands what it takes to make a company run.  Do you have a problem with that?  Or are you just into the 'ol tired class envy thing you libs like to drag out.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

If Obama picks someone of a higher pay grade to be his running mate, maybe that guy can answer the questions that Barack won't.

Answer 6

People hate it when other people are sucessful it seems. Especially the self-made folks.

Answer 7

i wonder if obama spent that 20 million in book sales yet? and yeah mitt is self made.he created staples retail chain.

Answer 8

Romney is an amazing success story in America.  He succeeded in the business world on his own merit.  He  has immense knowledge of how to thrive in today's economy.  Obama has never even run a lemonade stand and McCain spent his early years in the military, so having a running-mate with a surplus of economic knowledge is a great plan.

What is wrong with being wealthy and successful?  I hear people complaining about Obama making $4 million last year or McCain having 5 homes, isn't that a good thing???  Only recently has financial wealth been looked upon as a terrible thing... how sad.

Answer 9

That would be funny. I can tell you as a Massachusetts resident that Romney was very ineffective here. He was a no-show mostly. I'm not voting for McCain. I won't do it. He is so arrogant that I find him absolutely infuriating. He acts like a big know it all and no one knows it all. He does not need to speak so harshly. He needs to spend more time on his policies and what he will do. The fact that he continues to attack Obama just makes me believe even more strongly that McCain is completely wrong for America. I'm not an Obama supporter.

edit: Romney's father was the governor of Michigan. He did not come from nothing. Please..

edit: I agree with the responder about Romney not having very good judgment, empty head. He is. He's also an elitist. He separated himself from the people here. Look at what Romney did to his dog and he couldn't even admit that it was a mistake and that he would have done something differently if he could. He defends what he did to this day. He's a moron. You can be rich and a moron. He may have started Staples but he did not do it on his own. I can assure you of that.

Answer 10

Mitt did a bang-up job with the Salt Lake City Olympics. But it was the most expensive Olympics in our history, and the tax payers did foot that bill. Mitt did not come from nothing. His family had money. I don't fault the man for reaping the rewards of his business acumen. That's the American dream. However, knowing how to run a business is not the same as knowing how to run a country. The same rules and tactics do not apply. Massachusetts did not benefit from the Romney administration. He cut the budget by allowing fire stations to go without adequate staffing, schools to go without enough teachers and supplies, and yes.. he did not take a salary for himself as governor. Nor should he have. If you had an employee take the day off more often than he worked so that he could interview for other jobs (running for president), you wouldn't feel that badly for him.

McCain stands a better chance with just about ANY other VP on his ticket.

Answer 11

Mitt Romney isn't a billionaire.

EDIT:  Despit the thumbs down the fact remains, Romney is NOT a billionaire.  Do you guys really know what that button is for?

Answer 12

Would you prefer a homeless person to be the next Veep?

Good grief we all strive for money for most its the reason we live, when someone gets successful people say oh they aren't good enough. Well the poor couldn't stand the pressure of being under CNN's magnifying glass 24/7.. neither could anyone in the middle class that is why the people with money who are used to the barbs, jibes and harassment are the only one's that can deal with political office.

Answer 13

Name the last 'poor' person to be elected president or vice-president.

Don't you know that we are now a plutocracy? Get used to it. Even Obama is a millionaire. And, by the way, how did he make all that money?

Answer 14

Well if a person was poor it would indicate they are not good managers and would not truly qualify for the job would they?

Answer 15

Mitt is getting all this credit for things he didn't do such as saving the Olympics from financial ruin. They are both empty heads who have had others do everything for them & have never had the experience of working hard for anything. The experience one gets from accomplishing goals is what makes a person able to repeat success & they neither one has had to do anything that would give them experience in helping the hard working people that build the country.