The Republican party is marketing itself as the party of the poor.  Several speakers at the Republican National Convention have contributed to the narrative, as shown in this excellent video montage of quotes.

But the man they've nominate for president is TWICE as rich as the combined peak lifetime wealth of previous presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. 

Romney built his fortune as the privileged and wealthy son of a Michigan governor who headed an auto company and ran for president.  

He is Romney is the only presidential candidate in modern times to have not disclosed who is fundraisers are.  He's the only presidential candidate in modern times to have not released multiple years of this tax returns.

And yet, they want us to believe they or their family members grew up in abject poverty.  

You may have heard by now about the Peanut Incident of 2012.  For those of you missing out here’s the gist:

Two RNC attendees were thrown out of the Tampa convention center after throwing nuts an African-American CNN camerawoman and saying “This is how we feed animals.”

First tweeted by David Shuster, the incident has been confirmed by both CNN and RNC officials. While the convention condemned the guilty parties, saying their “conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable,” neither party is offering up any more details.

Apart from acknowledging that this “incident” (as they’re calling it) occurred, neither CNN nor the RNC has offered up any kind of explanation nor any other revealing details as to who these nut-flingers are. Were these simply attendees or were they delegates?

Are they public officials or simply drunk GOP fans? Do they have constituents who deserve to know about this? Do they have a motive or an agenda behind their actions? Or were these simply the horrible inexcusable mistakes of two ignorant nobodies?

There’s anger mounting from both the left and right towards the two who dared to make such a grave error of judgment during an already tumultuous time for the GOP. While they were ejected from the convention by officials, many believe they have the responsibility to answer for their now public misdoings.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, and the MSNBC panel discuss Ohio Gov. John Kasich's speech and why he's doing a better sales job than Mitt Romney. 

"Early tonight in the convention," Ed said, "we haven't seen any of these speeches tell us what you're going to do for the middle class that's being hit so hard in this country."