# Romney donor at Hamptons fundraiser feels sympathy for the common people. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719 "2012-07-09T19:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/1 "2012-07-09T19:08:37Z")
[http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-hamptons-fundraiser-20120708,0,4909639.story?track=rss&utm\_source=dlvr.it&utm\_medium=twitter&dlvrit=56325](http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-hamptons-fundraiser-20120708,0,4909639.story?track=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=56325) > [@](#): > > The line of Range Rovers, BMWs, Porsche roadsters and one gleaming cherry red Ferrari began queuing outside of Revlon Chairman Ronald Perelman’s estate off Montauk Highway long before Romney arrived, as campaign aides and staffers in white polo shirts emblazoned with the logo of Perelman’s property – the Creeks – checked off names under tight security. > … > A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. “I don’t think the common person is getting it,” she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. "Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them. > > “We’ve got the message,” she added. “But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies – everybody who’s got the right to vote – they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income – one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.” I want to thank her for letting us know, through the reporter, that we don’t get it and shouldn’t strain our dear little heads trying to figure it out, but should just take her oh so educated and informed opinion as edict from on high and vote for her candidate. :rolleyes: Honestly, it’s so ridiculous I’m not even sure if I believe it. Poe’s Law strikes again, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/2 "2012-07-09T19:46:56Z")
It certainly comes across like she’s just aghast that those _nail ladies_ who are clearly so uneducated and ill informed (because, I guess they are (gasp) _nail ladies_) actually have the right to vote! I mean, can you imagine that! ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/3 "2012-07-09T19:52:35Z")
I suspect her real concern is that the nail ladies of the world are starting to get a pretty good grasp on “how the system works” and they don’t really care for it so much. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/4 "2012-07-09T20:01:36Z")
Lay off, she was very selective in her disparaging remarks to college kids, baby sitters and nail ladies. She totally does not think that about gardeners, housekeepers, mechanics, drivers, personal shoppers, concierges, yoga instructors, pool boys, or stylists. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/5 "2012-07-09T20:05:01Z")
What about the caddies? Won’t anyone think of the caddies? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/6 "2012-07-09T20:05:30Z")
She’s kinda down on her college kid. Must still be angry he only got into his safety school. But I’m not sure I’ve ever heard someone outside of a movie use the phrase “common person” in a non-sarcastic context. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/7 "2012-07-09T20:09:49Z")
I know a lovely lady, with a PhD in child psych who is a _gasp_ nanny … she looks like a dumpy little grandmotherly type, sort of like Dr Ruth. She got tired of the scholarly grant feeding frenzy and push to publish, and decided to retire to take care of 4 kids. Money isn’t that fantastic, but it come with room and board and she doesn’t need much of anything else. She is much more relaxed now. I bet she would love to give that lady a piece of her mind … perhaps not high income, but definitely not uneducated.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/8 "2012-07-09T20:55:52Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > She’s kinda down on her college kid. Must still be angry he only got into his safety school. Princeton? ---
**Author:** ![jimmycolorado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jimmycolorado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmycolorado)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/9 "2012-07-09T21:30:03Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > She’s kinda down on her college kid. Must still be angry he only got into his safety school. > > **But I’m not sure I’ve ever heard someone outside of a movie use the phrase “common person” in a non-sarcastic context.** I originally saw this story over on LGF, and I chuckled to myself. It kind of surprised me (my laugh, not really the story itself), and I couldn’t put my finger on why. I now realize, it’s the bolded part. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/10 "2012-07-09T21:56:07Z")
Some photos from the Hamptons fundraiser: > **[Hilarious Photos Of Protesters Crashing Mitt Romney's Fancy Hamptons Fundraisers](https://www.businessinsider.com/romney-hamptons-fundraisers-occupy-protests-photos-2012-7?op=1)** ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/11 "2012-07-09T23:07:06Z")
This is not really a discussion of the election; it is certianly not a debate. I suspect that I can find a better home for it. Off to The BBQ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/12 "2012-07-09T23:22:44Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > I suspect her real concern is that the nail ladies of the world are starting to get a pretty good grasp on “how the system works” and they don’t really care for it so much. And they have very sharp nails. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/13 "2012-07-09T23:23:35Z")
I’m getting to the point where, if you are a bigot, the rights you want to take away from others get taken away from you. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/14 "2012-07-09T23:30:22Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’m getting to the point where, if you are a bigot, the rights you want to take away from others get taken away from you. Like the old joke about a eugenics program where you ask people if they think that the unfit should be sterilized, and if they say “yes” you sterilize them. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/15 "2012-07-10T00:06:14Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > This is not really a discussion of the election; it is certianly not a debate. > > I suspect that I can find a better home for it. > > Off to The BBQ Pit. It’s a discussion about a fundraiser which is raising funds for an election. It’s about the type of people who are contributing funds to that election. But it’s no skin off of my nose, so whatever. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/16 "2012-07-10T00:18:10Z")
“I don’t think the common person is getting it. Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them.” :mad: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/17 "2012-07-10T00:26:50Z")
> [@](#): > > …What do the simple folk do > To help them escape when they're blue? > The shepard who is ailing, the milkmaid who is glum > The cobbler who is wailing from nailing his thumb > When they're beset and besieged > The folk not noblessly obliged > However do they manage to shed their weary lot? > Oh, what do simple folk do we do not?.. Guinevere, in _Camelot_, Lerner and Lowe Well, lady, we used to take drugs and plot revenge. Most of us have given up drugs… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/18 "2012-07-10T00:28:43Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > “I don’t think the common person is getting it. Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them.” > > :mad: I don’t understand. Why (or, I think she meant to say, how) _is_ Obama hurting me? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/19 "2012-07-10T00:35:00Z")
Well, it’s his fault the economy is so bad, right? Also, for death panels and for taking our guns away. Any minute now. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719/20 "2012-07-10T01:14:51Z")
She’s like the female version of Steven Cobert. Only except frighteningly, she’s not a parody. And remember folks: Birds of a feather… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-donor-at-hamptons-fundraiser-feels-sympathy-for-the-common-people/627719.md?page=2)