The Game Changer?

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Well, it looks like Mitt Romney has been playing the "Selective Family Album" game and kinda/sorta/oppsies forgot to tell everyone he is 1/4 Mexican.

And just did why did Mitt's father flee Mexico for the safety of the US?

In his public life Mitt Romney has said and written little about his ancestors' history in Mexico.  In one oft-repeated quote he said his family left the U.S. for Mexico to escape persecution for their religious beliefs.

In fact, Romney's great grandfather, Miles Park Romney, led that first expedition to escape not persecution but prosecution for polygamy, or what Mormons called ‘plural marriage.’

Well, this is rather awkward, from a race standpoint. So we have the Southern US. There is a strong showing of rather simple minded voters who are Crusading Voters for Christ and All Other Things White™.

Who they going to vote for. Mitt the Mex? Barrak the Magic Negro?

Or maybe that white guy Gary Johnson, the only real social liberal/fiscal conservative in the race.

God DAMN I love Southern Idiocracy.

Question: Game changer? If Mitt embraces his SOTB roots, will this swing brown skins to his camp? WILL ANYONE DEMAND TO SEE HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE?

ETA: This just in! Cain demands to know more about this polygamy thing!

Comments

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Then allow me to correct the minutae:

MOST CONSERVATIVES ONLINE AND ON THE TEEVEE CALLS OBAMA A SOCIALIST BECAUSE DADDY WAS ONE.

feel better?

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

And I always thought it was because of his voting record in the Senate....oh wait.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

Which votes would those be??

and when he was President, Obama had some of the most
successful Capitalists on his financial advisory board.


But HEY....why let little things like that matter, right?

[telemann.livejournal.com]

He's wasn't that liberal. Slightly left of center. Check out "Roll Call" (a data base of every Congress' vote and each Senator), they do an average of every congress and since the 1960s, Congress has been moving to the right. politikitty has mentioned this database several times to BDJ when he asserts the President Bush was no conservative (Presidents can offer their views on specific bills in Congress, even though technically they can't vote, and Bush was extremely conservative).

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Actually I was referring more to his lack of votes due to his short time in the Senate. (ya know, just snark ;))

Thanks for the link.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure how the ABSENCE of a vote either way could be
used to determine a political leaning,

but ok...it was just snark on your part, so ok...


8-i

[telemann.livejournal.com]

You know, the GOP "inexperienced" meme thingey. But see, that being an "outsider" of DC meme thingey can only work for specific Republicans, if Democratic candidates use it, well.... HAHA.

It's a CRAAAAZY town, that D.C.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

Good point!

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Haha, it's like that Chris Rock routine about the girl friend that complains if you pay too little attention ("you don't love me anymore"), or complains if you give her too much attention ("would you please stop suffocating me, give me some room!") ;)

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you are correct, except it seems not to matter how "outsider" one is, once they get in, no more outsider (regardless of party)

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

And besides, it just shows where he stands in the Senate, not where he stands ideologically overall. But telemann thinks the CBO actually counts outputs and not only inputs, so the confusion is understandible.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm just happy that when I imply something negative about the President, I'm not accused of being a racist ;)

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Don't jinx yourself.