Ok....gang....Mitt is the front-runner....again....for now...Why the heck would he say something stupid like the dumb quote he made today about the poor?  In his latest goof, Romney was quoted as saying that he is not concerned about "the poor...they have a safety net...if it needs repair, I'll fix it."   Apparently Mitt has started channelling the ghosts of Ebenezer Scrooge and Thurston Howell III when he talks.  Doesn't this sound eerily close to "A Christmas Carol"?

First Collector: At this festive time of year, Mr. Scrooge, it is
  more than usually desirable that we should make some slight
  provision for the poor and destitute.
 Ebenezer: Are there no prisons?
First Collector: Plenty of prisons.
Ebenezer: And the union workhouses - are they still in operation?
First Collector: They are. I wish I could say they were not.
Ebenezer: Oh, from what you said at first I was afraid that something
  had happened to stop them in their useful course. Im very glad to
  hear it.

Don't forget the Thurston Howell III-like quotes like the time he joked with a group of unemployed people that he too was unemployed....  

Or who could forget the classic $10,000 bet he tried to make with then Presidential candidate Rick Perry...

Now I like to joke around and kid about things as well as anyone....but I'm not running for President of the United States.  The stakes in this election are WAY too serious to be clowning about the conditions of the poor or saying that "you are not concerned" about them.  I keep waiting for Romney to yell, "HEAVENS TO FORT KNOX!"