Mitt gets booed at the NAACP convention.

[Ibby]

he was just quoted at a fundraiser this evening (trying to source it, Rachel read it out loud as breaking news straight from the press pool) as saying "if they want more free stuff, tell them to go vote for the other guy"... cause he's tooootally not just a race-baiting cunt or anything.

[Trilby]

Oh, he's tooooooooootally not! I mean, I can relate to Mitty. I, myself, own a dressage horse AND several negros!!

[Ibby]

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Ibby

he was just quoted at a fundraiser this evening (trying to source it, Rachel read it out loud as breaking news straight from the press pool) as saying "Remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy-more free stuff. But don't forget nothing is really free."... cause he's tooootally not just a race-baiting cunt or anything.

Still cannot find anyone other than Dem Under, Daily K & her all saying it and the first two referencing each other as sources...


**Change bolded for "accuracy"**

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Brianna

I saw a clip and thought poor ol' Mitt looked extremely nervous.

Not his usual crowd.

It was posted somewhere how out of sorts and nervous Biff was in a classroom full of kids.

Yeah, we can count on a guy who doesn't even have social skills outside his comfort zone.

Please don't fall for his bumbling act. Falling for the poor sad clown gave us eight years of g-dub.

[classicman]

Not sure if its true or not, but this would worry me a LOT more than what he was purported to have said.

he would remain perfectly sober and put on a police uniform and pull people over.

According to TV producer Robin Madden, a former friend of Romney during his time at Stanford:

“He told us that he had gotten the uniform from his father,” George Romney, then the Governor of Michigan, whose security detail was staffed by uniformed troopers. “He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road. He also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white Rambler. We thought it was all pretty weird. We all thought, ‘Wow, that’s pretty creepy.’ And after that, we didn’t have much interaction with him.”

In another story during Mitt’s high school days in Michigan, Mitt would pretend to pull his friends over while they were on dates.

Given the current climate of “being outraged over everything” it’s surprising, then, that nobody thinks it weird that the potential future president used to dress up like a police office and scare the shit out of people? I mean, yeah, I could see that shit flying in Michigan (because God hates Michigan and there is nothing to do there), but the behavior continued when he was in college in California during the late ’60s? Go to a reading. Go see a band. Don’t dress up like a police officer and pretend to pull people over FOR FUN.

[tw]

Originally Posted by SamIam

He might decide to embarrass you as well.

That it. I am never having sex with Rush Limbaugh again. Posting as UG is his idea of foreplay. Its no longer fun.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by classicman

Not sure if its true or not, but this would worry me a LOT more than what he was purported to have said.

Has that story not made its rounds of the cellar? it.. should. yeah, thats a big deal. i just wanted to shed a little light on the obviously racist undertones of the followup to the NAACP booing, given the fact that more than one of us here have pointed out that he probably basically wanted to be booed (so he could say something like, THAT)

[Griff]

I'll probably get in trouble here because I have not heard the quote in context... but that never stopped me before. Will it be racist when Biden says, "Vote for us, we'll give you free stuff." There are many ways to be racist, assuming people are not capable of taking care of themselves would be one. Romney is expressing an actual political position. He is full of shit since he believes in free stuff for the oligarchs, but the position is only racist if his lack of commitment to the under-class is based of skin color not an assumption that they are capable of independence.

[infinite monkey]

Oh wait. No. I'm thinking "so...Mitt...what is that name short for? Certainly he's a matthew or something."

Willard Mitt Romney

Really? Poor guy, no wonder he beat people up and pretended to be a cop and pulled people over. He was bullying as compensation for the dumbass name his parents gave him.

[Trilby]

You know who else dressed up as a cop and pulled people over?

Several serial killers.


AND THE DOG ON TOP OF THE CAR THING, PEOPLE!

This man is one banana phone away from being Jeffrey Dahmer!

Save yourselves!!!!!!

[Sheldonrs]

This was actually a win for Romney. He proved to the people he REALLY panders to, the ultra-rich right, that he's not afraid to confront the other side and that he won't give anything to anyone unless they ARE ultra-rich and ultra-right wing.

[Trilby]

and Ultra WASP-Y!

He's the Ultimate WASP! except for that pesky Mormon thingy. That's not so much as a P as a C as in "cult"

but, whatever. He's a rich white guy and we know they always know best. Right, daddy-o?

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Griff

I'll probably get in trouble here because I have not heard the quote in context... but that never stopped me before. Will it be racist when Biden says, "Vote for us, we'll give you free stuff." There are many ways to be racist, assuming people are not capable of taking care of themselves would be one. Romney is expressing an actual political position. He is full of shit since he believes in free stuff for the oligarchs, but the position is only racist if his lack of commitment to the under-class is based of skin color not an assumption that they are capable of independence.

the racism is in the othering of black people inherent in the rhetoric and the policies of the party as a whole, and mitt's own personal consistent comments. Also, "racism" isn't "stuff that acknowledges race" - its stuff that helps contribute to the systems of oppression of minority groups, duh. "Reverse racism" is not racism.

[BigV]

I don't agree with your definition of racism.

Also, "racism" isn't "stuff that acknowledges race" - its stuff that helps contribute to the systems of oppression of minority groups, duh. "Reverse racism" is not racism.

Prejudice, based on racial stereotypes is most definitely a form of racism. And there are a thousand ways it can be expressed. Furthermore, it's possible to have racist attitudes and still express opinions that are not racist. There's no causal dependency nor are they mutually exclusive. Griff had it right, racism is rooted in attitude, even unconscious ones, intention. It is about prejudice, pre-judging.