Romney and the Poor

You've all probably seen the clip or read about where Romney says he's not concerned about the very poor.

Yeah, that was bad.

He offers a poor explanation here of why he said it but simultaneously does a good job at saying he made a mistake. I'm not sure how one apologizes without setting the record straight, but he did. He's walking on egg-shells already since he's monster rich and then he said that. I was very disappointed. I sense the shock waves will have broad political repercussions. As does this guy.

Conservatives, libertarians, etc, need to be far better at communicating the fact that they DO care about the very poor. Because they view poverty as a "human" problem, there is not a "class focus" on the poor and hence a lack of focused language. The policies advocated by the limited government types are advocated because they do the most good for the most people (including the very poor). Therefore, the connection between capitalism and the poor is not explicit and therefore lost to this sound byte culture. Capitalism has shown to be the best structure we know of to help the poorest among us and that message needs to be communicated in language all can understand.