Just Sitting Here Minding My Own Business
Okay, so I am sitting here in my Barc-o-Lounger watching Rachel Maddow, minding my own business and cuddling with Truman, when all a sudden Rachel has a new quote from a pool reporter in Montana.
It seems Mitt Romney talked tonight about getting booed at the NAACP in Houston. It went something like this: “If they want more free stuff, they should vote for the other guy.”
By “they” he means black Americans.
Holy crap on a cracker – literally, a cracker – this is the same guy who says that we are causing a class war, dividing America.
Uh oh, I think that silence you hear is his secret black support melting.
Holy crap. Did he really say that?
Yeah, he said . . .
1And as far as Mitt’s secret black support goes (ok, I couldn’t say that without bending over and howling like a hyena)—-I don’t know why Allen West wants to keep his love secret. We already know his lips are puckered up to meet anything Mitt serves up. (Sorry Mama).
Just as wonderful, Ed Schultz had one of the NAACP leaders point out that Romney flew in a number of African-American supporters to head up his cheerleading section and he also suggested that the “African-American leaders” Romney talked meeting after the NAACP meeting on a Fox News segment were those he flew in. Apparently, they were not members of the NAACP but served his purpose of claiming that he was told that not all African-Americans will admit they won’t vote for President Obama. Wow – had to flew them in, huh? Kind of like a plantation owner bringing in his own to serve him.
He also claimed victory, saying “more supported me than not.” Oh yeah, uh-huh. Either Mitt is the biggest liar in the game today or he is so deeply into denial of reality that he can’t find his way out.
Mostly, though, I agree with many pundits who are saying he didn’t go the NAACP conference to speak to them, but to get booed purposely so he could win points with his racist base. That I do believe. The crap was spread thick for the crackers who want to believe he will turn this country back to a time when losers like them had the advantage over deserving people of color.
What a truly creepy man Mitt Romney is. If he brags about this kind of performance, why the heck would any one want to see what his heart is like. I am not about to take up his invitation to dig any deeper. When I smell or step in manure, I don’t go any deeper into it.
2Oops – make that ” . . . had to fly them in, huh?” not ” . . . had to flew them in, huh?”
Typos are my version of being so spitting mad that I cannot speak clearly. Mitt makes me mad.
3He also told them if they wanted to see the guy who was going to make things better for them, they were looking at him and they laughed!
What a piece of work!
4He’s throwing red meat at his bat-crap crazy base. But I can’t see this playing to independents/moderates.
Hear that? It’s the sound of Romney’s campaign imploding.
5Romney was not speaking to the NAACP this morining but was speaking to the nutcases who watch Faux News. Romney wanted to be booed and got his wish. Now the idiots and simple minded fools who watch Faux can feel better about Romney being picked on and booed by those nasty other people.
6@ ks, manure is good and clean and has the smell of happy plants! What you would be digging in to find out more about R-money is dog poop, which is ALWAYS disgusting!
7I kinda wish he’d gone ahead and made a “mark of Cain” reference…
8ks sunflower said, “Either Mitt is the biggest liar in the game today or he is so deeply into denial of reality that he can’t find his way out.”
I’m pretty sure he can be both.
9He had to fly them in? I thought he just had to draw a pentagram and stick a few candles around the room.
10I laughed so hard I had to wash out my magic underwear! OOPS!
11Gah, I hate it when this happens. The full quote give the correct context and “they” are not black people:
“But I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy-more free stuff.”
I don’t know why I care about being accurate and fair when it comes to Rs, it certainly doesn’t keep them up nights. Maybe that’s why though…I don’t want to be them and they’ve got plenty of other batcrapcrazy stuff I can talk about.
12From Huffpost quoting Julian Bond
“He wanted to be able to go to some of the independents he needs to get elected and tell them, ‘See? I stood up to the Negroes,'” Bond said. He noted that Romney later said on Fox News that he knew he’d be booed for the Obamacare remark.”
I think we have now gone past batcrapcrazy to cold manipulating demigod wannabe
13Romney’s ploy is already working. A coworker of mine, here in South Texas, who is from the Tyler area said, “He just got my family’s vote.”
14@ Someday Girl: You really think by “your friends who like Obamacare” Mitt meant somebody other than the people to whom he was talking?
Just who might those other people be, then?
Suggestions?
Give me a freakin’ break.
15Didn’t George Wallace, shortly before he died, apologize for his blatant racisim? What would George think of Romney and todays Republicans? Then again, wonder what Lincoln think of his grand old party?
16I am gonna vote the first day I can in this election. Just in case I get hit by a truck before election day. With all the GOP eyeballs on who gets to vote I’m afraid the ballot box in my Democratic majority cemetery won’t get picked up and counted.
17It’s been said before that the best weapon the GOP has is getting people to vote against their own best interests.
18thanks someday girl. the real quote is equally unamerican…so it is hard to say. better to say it the hard way than give the liars an opening to accuse is of spreading lies.
19Mitt made another cute comment about having an African American in his “kitchen cabinet” when he was governor.Are you kidding? The kitchen used to be the best place to work on the plantation,but not among their aspirations for the futurre. Sounds like “some of my best friends are black”. I can hear the chortling and snorting now.
20Romenoodles, there is something there but, what is it?
21I am truly ashamed of the fact that I one time registered Republican and voted for a friend. He later served a term in Terre Haute, Ind. Fed prison. For racketeering.
Just want to let everyone in the WBDBS know that I am officially withdrawing my Secret Black Support for Mitt Romney…you know, the Secret Black Support that was so secret, I didn’t even know about it (that’s how secret it was).
22There are a lot of people besides black people that want “free stuff”. Lots of white folk on welfare. I have actually heard more white folk on welfare than black so what is this all about? he was talking to everybody. Sorry, I can’t agree with all you folks. He was invited by the NAACP and should not have been booed. Had that been President Obama being booed everybody would have been saying that the booers were racist. I am a black woman but I can’t side with all these comments.
23Cynthia, just by chance I had lunch with two of my African American girlfriends today – we, of course, were plotting a Democratic takeover by staffing our new headquarters. My friends disagree with you. Romney had just left the NAACP, went straight to Dick Cheney’s house for a fundraiser, and you think “they” means white people on welfare?
Cynthia, I seriously doubt that you are a black woman. You may be black or you may be a woman, but, Honey, you ain’t both.
24I’m not sure whether Mittens is able to be double crafty enough to insult both black people and liberals/progressives of all descriptions in one sentence, but it’s possible he was deliberately ambiguous. It’s an all-purpose insult. Republicans like to believe they don’t get anything for free from the government, just black folks and welfare queens and liberals and . . . and . . . On second thought, I think the sentence betrays Republicans’ muddled thought process. They deserve the whole pie and everybody else should just shut up and give it to them.
25John, I took the quote as
“I hope people” (those I speak to and am speaking to now)
“understand this, your friends” (people who know the previously mentioned people)
“who like Obamacare,” (subset of friends)
“you remind them of this, if they” (ibid)
“want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy”.
Also bearing in mind the folks at the Cheney fundraiser had, amongst them, three black friends (lol) I just can’t automatically take that as “they” is black people. Mitt has given us gems like “My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs” and “I’m not concerned about the very poor”. No need to try reading into anything of jumping to offense when he makes it so darn easy.
26The Romney quote in question was made right after Romney told the group at a fundraiser in Montana about being booed over getting rid of “Obamacare” during his speech at the NAACP convention. Don’t anyone try to tell me he was talking about Japanese, Chinese or white people.
27By the way, Juanita Jean, “Holy crap on a cracker – literally, a cracker,” may be the best line ever.
28If you watched Lawrence O’Donnel last night you saw Michael Eric Dyson give a poignant and very insightful reflection on Mitt Romney’s appearance at the NAACP convention. The jist of it is: Why should we praise Mitt for showing up?
29You can watch it –
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755883/vp/48156102#48156140
I think the convention was kinder to Mitt than they should have been, but it shows that the members have more class than the man who deigns to be president of ALL of us.
Y’all, I do not think he was booed. I saw that clip several times last night and this morning, and I swear I thought they were saying, “Nooooo.” NO has a long OH sound, not an OOOH sound like Boo. Romney stood there grinning like a possum in the cat food dish because it would play so well for the Angry White Guys.
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