Cribs: The Mitt Romney Edition

by Cynthia McCabe  |  March 27, 2012

GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney likes to remind us from the campaign trail that he’s just a regular guy. One who likes eating grits and who enjoys that Michigan’s trees are “just the right height.” Then word leaked this morning that Romney is building a 12,000-square-foot oceanfront La Jolla, Calif., mansion that will include an elevator for his cars. (needle scratch on the record) You know, just like the rest of us.

The Twitterverse had a few things to say about Romney’s home improvements:

We’ll give Think Progress scribe Joe Romm the last word on Romney’s decidedly non-99% renovation plans:“To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, the 1% are different than you and me.”