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

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

Please re-read my comment. You'll notice your response doesn't address what was said.

Take your time... thanks.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

No, it did. You just still can't understand the current immigration debate and how it's different from the Romney family fleeing the country due to state-sanctioned religious persecution.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

Too bad your GOP buddies don't share your "open-mindedness".

Or DID YOU FORGET about:
* Minuteman patrols
* Building walls in the desert
* Shoot on Sight slogans
* We cant afford them here
* They're taking our jobs


You focus on a straw-man ("religious persecution") and ignore that the GOP arguments Dont give a shit why people come over here and they HAVENT. To now suddenly make a big stink about persecution?? It's revisionist and dishonest to try to frame this as some long-standing principle of the GOP that doesnt make this hypocrisy.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

If you think religious persecution is a strawman when that's exactly what happened in large numbers to Mormons in the United States, then there really isn't much else to say. I don't know whether to be resigned, disappointed, or disgusted, to be frank.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

Strawman to the point. Nice diversion