Mitt and the Haters...

In the hip hip community and culture, success is measured in many ways. Naturally, unit sales, constituency of loyal fans, and the accumulation of material things all are benchmarks for an artists' success.
But, more than anything these days in some pockets of the hip hop community, an artist's success is measured by the amount of ill will he generates from his peers or the listening public.
Haters, are the personification of that ill will. If an artist has fifteen haters, he is trying diligently to garner twenty. If he has twenty, it is far greater to have thirty and so on.
On the presidential campaign trail, Mitt Romney made the political culture a little bit more like the hip hop culture.
As the front-runner in the Republican race, he has been skewered by his opponents in the Republican primary field for his financial deals when he was in the private sector as a venture capitalist. His opponents have called him heartless, shady, greedy and out of touch with most Americans.
His response? Well, his response to his opponents and critics has been nothing if not measured and consistent. He has said that people who are critical of the financial deals he made and the wealth he amassed while in the private sector, are simply envious of him and all wealthy people.

Yes, in other words, he is counting and shaking his haters at the same time. Getting the dirt off his shoulder, if you will.
This is all fine for the wealthy fundraisers and lower middle class folks who vote against their own self interests that he's trying to impress, but it does little for the rest of us.
You see the rest of us are not haters of Mitt. We are not his haters and are not envious of his wealth because we know that Christ has valued, and continues to value the poor, the marginalized and the disenfranchised. He came to save the masses, not the wealthy.
But, keep shaking the haters, Mitt. If the GOP gets any more like some pockets of the hip hop community, I'll be expecting Mitt to pull up to a stump speech on spinners.