Wow, who could have imagined Mitt Romney would get such a cool reception from the NAACP? (/sarcasm)
Update — faces in the crowd — all saying “You’ve got to me bleeping kidding me …”
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Wow, who could have imagined Mitt Romney would get such a cool reception from the NAACP? (/sarcasm)
Update — faces in the crowd — all saying “You’ve got to me bleeping kidding me …”
Really, it’s amazing he even tried.
I’d enjoy seeing Sarah Palin with her hair on fire, by the way.
I believe that Mitt did this on on purpose.
What could he possibly talk to them about, as the one of the richest and THE whitest white man in America?
And I think his most condesending line in todays speech was when he advised the black folk that they were not able to “understand” him, and thus were unable to like him. That he knew better how to fix their issues than Obama.
And then, he called ACA, “Obamacare,” and the boo’s rained down.
Oh, This was on purpose, no doubt about!
This is now more raw meat for the base, who’ll associate “booing” Romney with “Mau-Mauing” him.
And FOX will combine this with video from the “urban” riots of the late 60’s – and of course, the Rodney King riots.
And the reaction from the simpletons, rubes, marks, and fools?
“Why, Martha, look at those rude Nigrah savages! Booing a nice old rich white man because he’s an old rich white man.
They’re waiting for Obama to tax people like Mitt and us, and give that money to these Nigrah savages!
Better take some of what’s left of this months SS money and send it to Mitt and the Republicans. We don’t want Obama and The New Black Panthers and ACORN running this country!!!”
Mitt knew he had nothing to say to them.
So, why not get a rise out of them.
And the base will eat this up
I guarantee that was the aim of this whole thing!
If you can’t join ’em – use ’em to divide and conquer!!!
gulag — Alex Pareene agrees with you.
I think he went there to get booed and rejected. Plays into the GOP myth that entitlements and the welfare state are a scam to rip off whites to pay blacks. Helps fire up his base.
Well, it’s nice to be in some good company for a change – not like the riff-raff here! 😉
Yeah, they’ll paint it as Daniel went into the lions den, spit in the lion’s eyes, and walked out
A Conservative hero is born!
Mission accomplished, now Mittens can turn to the teabaggers and say: see them neggras, now they hate me too!
What really pisses me off about it is the way he’s painted the organization as consisting of those wanting a handout…as if there’s nothing like unemployment (hitting minorities harder) or the organized voter suppression that is more often directed at minorities from within the GOP.
We already knew he was tone deaf but I suspect that the use of Obamacare was known in advance to be taken by most in attendance as a pejorative.
He had the audacity to tell those in attendance that “if you knew what was in my heart you would vote for me” then turn around and prove to them the next day what was in his heart with remarks before a lighter shaded audience casting those who booed him as freeloaders wanting a handout.
He knows exactly what he’s doing. No one can be that stupid. Not even Mittens.