Romney: $3.45 for Gas a ‘Good Price’

by Patricia Guadalupe  |  November 01, 2011

Here we go again.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said some pretty astonishing things along the campaign trail. He says he supports a plan to virtually eliminate Medicare, he backs privatizing Social Security and he’s told supporters he wants tax policies for people like him in the middle class. (“Middle class” in this case meaning a millionaire many times over.)

He even told a crowd of out-of-work Floridians over the summer that he’s “also unemployed” because he’s seeking the nation’s top elected job.  

Now he’s opining about gas prices, telling a man at a Republican dinner in New Hampshire that $3.45 a gallon was “a good price!” The man responded, “I think it’s high.” No doubt most everyone would agree.   

Of course Romney is also the candidate who told the Las Vegas Review-Journal recently the problem with housing is that the foreclosure process is too slow, and that it should be sped up so that investors could buy up the homes and rent them back to the former owners. Come again? Let’s get banks to throw more people out on the street. That’s what he’s saying.

New York congressman Jerry Nadler this week sent a letter to Romney, who’s making a fundraising stop in the Big Apple.

“I wanted to ask you, on behalf of my constituents,” Nadler writes, “why have you so consistently put the needs of working- and middle-class people last?”

From the looks of it so far, nothing tin-ear Romney says would contradict that question.