Friday, April 27th, 2007...5:06 pm
Mitt Romney: Salt of the Earth
One of my pet peeves with political journalism is the way that wealthy liberals are attacked as ”hypocritical” for caring about poor folks, but genuine patrician conservatives are labeled “ordinary guys” when they pretend to like pork rinds and NASCAR and throw a “y’all” in here and there.
I give you as example number one Mitt Romney. The first time I uttered the words, “Oh, Mitt, Prince of Irony,” was when I saw him used as a Bush/Cheney campaign surrogate on several news programs after John Edwards was chosen as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee. Romney toured the various programs condemning Edwards as a millionaire trial lawyer. Never once did I see an interviewer point to the fact that Romney himself is a millionaire corporate lawyer.
Now, Romney, JD and MBA from Harvard (of all places) and the son of a Governor, is burnishing his “working man” credentials by commenting on the Edwards haircut thing:
You know I think John Edwards was right. There are two Americas. There is the America where people pay $400 for a haircut and then there is everybody else.
Nice quip I suppose. It was coupled with a claim from Romney that he only pays $50 for his haircut.
$50? Geez, Mitt, most guys can get away with less than $20. I only pay $11 myself, but I understand it can run a bit more. More than $25 or so…that ain’t a barber any more, that’s a stylist
A $50 haircut barely makes you Joe Six-Pack. In fact…it takes you dangerously into the sort of wealthy metrosexual territory that columnists usually make fun of.
Say, is Maureen Dowd going to waste some column inches on this one?
NB - A hearty R-Cubed thank you to Amber Elliot (AKA Carrie Gunns of the VICE Squad) for confirming the prices for men’s haircuts.
1 Comment
April 28th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
I’d pay $50 a shot if I could get hair like Mitt’s. For $400 they better do something about my face as well
I would also guess that Mitt doesn’t pay out of his campaign coffers.
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