NAACP Reacts To Mitt Romney: ‘Patronizing,’ ‘Totally Disconnected,’ ‘A Serious Misjudgment’
Source: Think Progress
NAACP Reacts To Mitt Romney: Patronizing, Totally Disconnected, A Serious Misjudgment
By Judd Legum and Scott Keyes on Jul 11, 2012 at 1:25 pm
HOUSTON, Texas Mitt Romney addressed the national convention of the NAACP Wednesday morning, the nations largest civil rights organization. He was cordially received by the audience, who greeted him with a standing ovation, but the tone changed quickly after the GOP presidential candidate began his remarks.
The crowd booed Romney when he called for the full repeal of Obamacare and audibly laughed when he suggested he would be a better president than Obama for the African-American community. Also notable was what was left unsaid. Romney failed to address voting rights, which is a major theme of this NAACP gathering.
ThinkProgress was on the scene and talked to some NAACP members after Romneys speech to get their thoughts. James Waters said some of Romneys comments were patronizing, while Joe Brown argued that Romney made a serious misjudgment relating to the health care reform. Allytra Perryman went even further: I dont think he has any way to even remotely relate to the everyday citizen, let alone African-American citizens.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/11/514799/naacp-reacts-to-mitt-romney-patronizing-totally-disconnected-a-serious-misjudgment/
h/t ProSense (for above link)
Reaction Faces From NAACP
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/reaction-faces-from-the-crowd-at-mitt-romneys-naa#HTWF2
monmouth
(21,078 posts)lumpy
(13,704 posts)n
tularetom
(23,664 posts)He desperately needed to gain credibility with the mouth breathing tea bagger element of his party.
What better way to do it than to go to the convention of a major black organization and antagonize the audience?
knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)He's going after the super-right-wing who'd been talking of staying home.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)I think he is so far out of touch, he might have actually thought it would fly with these folks.
Kahuna
(27,312 posts)with moderates and indies. He just reinforced the, 'he's an out of touch, rich guy,' meme. I don't think he did himself any favors.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They've been claiming "Obamacare" is white people having to take cuts in their Medicare so black people can get another freebie.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)who think he'll take care of them when they become the 1%.
loyalkydem
(1,678 posts)we get it.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Might as well have sent Trump.
Squinch
(51,075 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)They're thinking, "That dude is the biggest dumbass on the planet!"
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)"are you shitting me? Wait, I know the answer to that one."
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)That kind of "disconnected" ???
matt819
(10,749 posts)I mean, polite is one thing, but to ovate him by standing? Huh?
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)A handful of plants to stand and cheer and the rest will go along with it
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)That's worth some more donations for Obama.
BattyDem
(11,075 posts)No caption needed!
Lex
(34,108 posts)It made me literally LOL.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)of bringing rotten eggs and tomatoes to a speech.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)... don't know the impact. Just trust us rich white folks, we know best."
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)He deliberately insulted his audience.
nolabear
(42,001 posts)First, it's possible they'd be so obnoxious that it would undo any criticism anyone would have of the NAACP. But it's also possible that Obama and his staff have enough emotional intelligence to craft his remarks in a way that makes it far harder to boo, so making any heckling more obviously toward the man than the speech. Even I'm smart enough to construct a sentence ending in an invitation or an admission that the audience is a valued part of the public. Obama has done that in the past. Romney's speeches really ARE patronizing and disconnected, all of them, but the African American community just won't let him pretend otherwise.
I love those faces. As the old New Orleans saying goes, "Won't bow. Don't know how."
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)boo and scream obsenities and curse him the whole time. It is unimaginable that the president of the NRA would even entertain the idea of him speaking to them. The hatred of him is too high.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)His attitude was virtually identical to how I believe a plantation owner talked to his (former) slaves after Juneteenth. "Condescending" doesn't even begin to describe his arrogant sense of entitlement.
entitlement: one of the reasons his talk about his father is such a standard in his stump speeches is the same as that of any princeling during the age of monarchies ... he's the son of the monarch and is entitled to inherit that authority. The man reeks of one who wallows in privilege.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)ultimately, he was playing the race card
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)He knew he wasn't gonna get any votes there, but he can play the crowd's reaction for gains in favorability ratings among the Teabaggers.
patrice
(47,992 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Oh, wait. He hasen't spoken to the college crowd yet to say he will raise the cost of an education. It will be three groups soon.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)How's he faring with the wymmins? Is Anne Rmoney's "I love to see mothers forced to work..." and his born again anti-abortion "We own your uterus" stance helping him do better with us?
Just who has he pissed on to date?
Wymmins. check
Latinos. check
Blacks. check
small biz. check
Dad's industry. check
Animal lovers. check
MittRommel
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