Did Romney darken his face to appeal to Latino voters?

Politics & Elections
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http://gawker.com/5944931/mitt-romney-dyed-his-face-brown-to-appeal-to-latino-voters

You have to look at the photos at that link to see what they’re talking about.

I thought that it might be photoshopped, but you can also see it in the video. You can see the makeup line near his collar and around his ear.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/mitt-romney-campaign-100-percent-17276097

It just strikes me as ludicrous that he would intentionally do that. Nobody is that clueless, right? It has to be an unintentional bad makeup job, right?

Maybe the makeup people at Univision punked him! :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’m going to pray to Joseph Smith that this was just a shitty make up job to make him look tanner in sunny Miami or something. He undoubtedly went overboard with the Oompa Loompa make up job, but I sure as shit hope he didn’t get dressed up in black face --or brown face, whatever-- to better appeal to the dark people.

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I’m gonna give this one to Romney and say that it’s a bad make up job by his team.

But I SOOO hope I’m wrong.

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In the video there appears to be a little bit of paleness around his eyes that’s roughly the shape of sunglasses, so I’m guessing sunshine is the culprit.

That said, the shade looks remarkably similar to tan-in-a-can. But that’s probably because of the blue blood.

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I don’t know. Check out the makeup line in this photo.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17zpgfz1pgyy1jpg/original.jpg

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I thought he was Latino. Or Hispanic. Wasn’t his father born in Mexico?

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No, but it looks like he’s been sharing Boehner’s make-up artist.

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How is this supposed to work exactly? Are people proposing that if Romney looks a little more tan, Latinos will just like him better because… what? Because they tend to have darker skin? So if Romney looks a bit darker on one TV appearance, they’ll forget he’s a white guy? I’m going to vote bad makeup because this makes zero sense.

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Darnit, there goes my “Getting a Boehner job” joke.

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It’s a bad application of bronzer. Good make-up artists are well worth the cost.

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It’s all over the web that he was trying to look Latino, but it has to be bad makeup job. I just can’t believe that he’s that clueless.

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The thought process being that, with the darker makeup, even if one Latino dude watching says “Hey, that guy looks like my cousin Chuey, I’m voting for him!” then Romney’s just increased his Latino support by 10%. Worth it.

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His great-grandfather moved to Mexico (with his four wives) to escape U.S. anti-polygamy laws, and his grandfather and father were both born in a Mormon colony in Mexico, but Romney has explained that his family has no Hispanic heritage and has never even spoken Spanish.

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I think it’s a little more subtle than that-think “working man’s tan”.

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Thanks, but I’m pretty sure TriPolar is aware of this and is commenting on Romney’s awkward insistence on shoehorning his connection to Mexico into every conversation. I think.

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Now that’s at least somewhat credible.

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Yeah that, and every other silly thing that can be said about this topic.

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How many times recently have we heard somebody say this about Romney? :smiley:

He looks like everybody on TV news these days. When they make them up, they have to go with a darker base to hide blemishes, freckles, age spots, etc., and they all end up looking like George Hamilton in the '80s. Even though I can believe he’s that clueless, I still think it was just a very bad makeup job. If he was trying to look “more Hispanic,” he would have darkened his hands as well, and they look just as pasty white and uncalloused as always.

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Any darker and he’s singing Mammy.

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I’m sure it’s just a bad make-up job but it’s an unfortunate audience to have that happen in front of. Maybe his make-up person is an Obama supporter gone rogue.