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]

YOU BROUGHT IT UP! Now, pointing out that *your* lack of a point somehow proves me wrong? It doesn't work that way...

I didn't write this post. You realize that, right? That I didn't put up an OP about Romney's Mexican heritage?

No, I didn't bring it up. The topic demands it, as it is part of the story.

Yes you did. Because we weren't talking religious persecution -- we were talking about Double Standards of the GOP.

No, you decided to try to play a "gotcha" game, and got burned big time. And now you can't admit you were off base, and need to compound a bigoted position in order to try and make Republicans look bad.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

You trying to throw out a strawman, and my not playing along with it doesnt make my position bigoted...

I just dont buy into diversions that you keep throwing out there..