The Game Changer?
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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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Date: 10/1/12 03:26 (UTC)They weren't then because there was at least an excuse for still believing it prior to Obama finally releasing the damn thing officially as opposed to just online. Those still clinging to it now are absolutely certifiable.
I also highly doubt the number was half of Republicans, but I'm not looking to hash out the polling in detail right now.
If we had millions of Mexican immigrants coming to the US because they were fleeing religious persecution, Republicans would think it was awesome, but since they're doing it to escape poverty Republicans think it's important to build a thousand-mile-long wall with gun towers to keep them out?
I think your phrasing is kind of ridiculous, but basically.