Ah yes — it’s the time of the year when wealthy powerful people battle over whom is more “common man.”
Rick Perry picked up on Mitt Romney’s quote at a town hall Wednesday where Romney counted himself among the middle class — one of a string of similar statements that’s caught the attention of Democrats — to attack Romney for pretending to be something he’s not.
“Will Mitt Romney play the middle class card in Florida tonight?” the Perry campaign asked in an email sent around to reporters in the hours before tonight’s debate. “Though Mitt Romney has a net worth of up to $250 million, he considers himself a member of “the great middle class — the 80 to 90 percent of us in this country.”
Perry, a three-term governor with a lavish lifestyle, has “modest” personal wealth, according to the Texas Tribune. He has few physical assets, but the paper found “the governor’s publicly traded stocks are worth between $132,000 and $340,000.”
Here’s video of Romney calling himself middle class as posted by ABC News (and captured by the Democratic-leaning trackers at American Bridge):
