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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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I certainly hope it's extreme pessimism on my part as well. But part of keeping the peace at home with my Glen Beck loving dad is agreeing which lines of argument are petty and not up for conversation at the table. So every time I say he doesn't get to call Obama a socialist (to my face at least), I have to promise him that I hold no truck with the kooks who use sexist language against Palin, that McCain was also foreign born, that Romney is being controlled by LDS.

(currently he's backing Santorum because he thinks the liberal media is forcing Romney down the throat of Republicans so they can smear his Mormonism and continue their atheistic bent of turning America against God. Which is a weird new turn because he's never been a religious church goer to begin with.)

Moving to California, I've been suffering a bit of pessimism and culture shock regarding liberals (as opposed to liberalism, but I don't know that people parse the difference).

I'll have people ask me where I'm "really from" because clearly not Texas with such a normal Americanized accent. And I've had people question my ability to do math when I say I'm a quarter Hispanic.

And it's not that I buy into the idea that reverse racism is just as bad as racism. But those moments highlight how many liberals were born into that political ideology, and would mimic the same racist rhetoric they abhor if they were born into different circumstances. Back in Texas, most of my liberal friends were contrarians, which is how they came to be liberals despite their suburban upbringing.

(I think the hate speech vs free speech also falls into this as well. I had a personal matter that mirrored that recent LJ discussion pretty closely, and noticed a real split between liberals who grew up in a liberal community, and those who grew up in a conservative community.)

I know none of this is really here nor there. But I always think it's a good thing to know where people are coming from. It's harder to demonize them. I think going into a brutal campaign season, that's a good thing.

the liberal media is forcing Romney down the throat of Republicans

Of course. It's the only reasonable explanation.

culture shock regarding liberals

I know the feeling. Talking with most liberals makes me embarrassed to call myself a lefty, more often than not. Hell, I went to school at UC Santa Cruz; I've forgotten more about lefty asininity and stupidity than most conservatives will ever know. And most ordinary conservatives are right to think that the left has failed and abandoned them.

Okay, gonna go cry now.

The Game Changer?

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