talkpolitics | The Game Changer?

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!

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Strangely enough, some of the most anti-ILLEGAL immigration people I know are Hispanics who came here the "hard" way....like in your example some does not mean most.

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Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal and works both ways. (please note, I do not dismiss anecdotal evidence out of hand, just saying)
While I'm not a fan of racial profiling in a vacuum. Profiling works.

You are correct very few things exist in a vacuum. Personally I would like to think that Romney is being honest with his thoughts on border control, and I think this whole deal is a tempest in a teapot; "Oh noes his grandfather fled to Mexico, he's a hypocrite because he doesn't believe in open borders". There are things I don't like about Romney but this isn't one of them :)

um, let's go meta. What does it indicate about his character that he has kept the Paternal Mexican side of the family 'hidden' from the public?

This is the first I've heard of it.

(TIC) I'm shocked that you would think that because you hadn't heard of it, it didn't happen)

Seriously, Jeff pointed out it did come out. I don't remember it either, but I was a Gullianni guy back in 08.

I didn't get all caught up in who and what Obama's father was, or the birther nonsense, and I really don't see the big deal.

Family is ONLY fair game when they are used as candidate props. If a candidate trots out his family for photo op's, they become part of the national conversation as well.

Otherwise, keep them at home.

That you didn't catch the stories initially does not mean they were "hidden."

I certainly didn't know. Neither did anyone else in the community.

Did you know about this, Jeff? Was it common knowledge to you? Did you ever blog about it?

Don't you find this unusual in a time when everyone knows everything family about the candidates?

I did know about this, yes. Mormons escaping religious persecution was not news to me, nor was Mitt's father's birthplace. As it wasn't especially fascinating, I saw no need to write about it.

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Family is ONLY fair game when they are used as candidate prop

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