Romney's unpleasant visit with the NAACP

[Jack Rabbit]

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Last edited Wed Jul 11, 2012, 03:40 PM - Edit history (1)

For crying out loud, of course Romney got booed. At the risk of being overly cynical, I can't help but wonder if Romney did this on purpose precisely so he would be booed . . . .

Indeed, if I had to guess, I'd say Romney will now position himself as something of a victim -- he appeared in good faith, the argument goes, but that mean ol' NAACP audience booed him for standing by his beliefs.

That thought occurred to me, also. The Southern strategy has never gone away. It's still with us and the GOP does everything to reinforce white racism except hold their national convention in a farm field under a burning cross. Therefore, being booed by the NAACP is a badge of honor in the eyes of many Republican voters.

This is the crowd that believes those people (starts with n and rhymes with triggers) are lazy and stupid want to live on the government dole. The solution is to prevent them from voting, because, as right wing columnist Matthew Vadum said, registering the poor to vote is "like handing out burglary tools to criminals."

To call a horse a horse, the Republican party is racist and has been since the sixties. Today, the Koch brothers fund an attempt to elect segregationists to a North Carolina school board in a district that has been a model of working diversity; that kind of racism speaks for itself. Such people see the abolition of slavery as government infringement on the free market.