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

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

The post is ALSO about the LACK of reaction from the GOP over the past.

Right, because the connection between religious persecution wasn't made - and was in fact ignorantly and offensively derided by NBC News. Thus my pointing it out.

Other people would call that "Revisionism", but I'll call that "Typical Jeff".

You're correct - it is typical for me to stick to the facts, even when the ignorant want to hold on as hard as possible.

You want to call documented, obvious, historically -relevant persecution a "strawman." You call me a revisionist for pointing it out. Your cognitive bias is screaming right now, so we're done.