Oh,please

The morning after his victory in the Florida primary, Mitt Romney said the following:

"I said I'm not concerned about the very poor that have a safety net, but if it has holes in it, I will repair them. We will hear from the Democratic party the plight of the poor, and there's no question it's not good being poor, and we have a safety net to help those that are very poor. But my campaign is focused on middle-income Americans. My campaign — you can choose on where to focus. You can focus on the rich — that's not my focus. You can focus on the very poor, that's not my focus. ...We have a very ample safety net and we can talk about whether it needs to be strengthened or whether it has holes in it. We have food stamps, we have Medicaid, we have housing vouchers, we have programs to help the poor..."

From this, the liberal media, the Democrats,  Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have dishonestly selected out the words, "I'm not concerned about the very poor," and reacted as if that was the substance of his comment, rather than the way in which the middle class has been neglected.

And Gingrich questions Romney's honesty?

As for the lefties... well, what you you expect? You'll be hearing this carefully-edited half sentence in ads this Fall (along with "Corporations are people, my friend" (out of the context of explaining that "corporations" represent the 401ks of ordinary citizens) over and over again.

But I doubt that anybody will address the substance of Romney's point. He's not saying that he'd neglect the very poor; he's saying that it's the middle class who have been left out in the cold, and that it's time that we address that fact.

HT: Drudge