I didn’t say we’d be seeing it over and over again. I didn’t say candidates are trying to create images and sound bites that last forever and ever.
I don’t know… try reading and understanding what I’m actually saying? You seem to be importing a lot of ideas into what I said that don’t belong there, perhaps making assumptions about what I probably believe or something.
I’m conservative, and am not too keen on Romney, but since the niggers booed him, he’s got my vote!
Yeah, I can see that happening all across the country. Or in one guy’s basement. Can’t decide which.
I know you hate to think that these people exist (I do, too) but I think we’d be fooling ourselves if we didn’t think there were thousands who had that very thought.
Occam tells me that the more parsimonious explanation is that a bunch of left leaning political junkies can’t imagine that a Republican candidate for office doesn’t calculate every move for nefarious purposes.
Or, as Occam’s buddy Sigmund said:
Sometimes a boo is just a boo.
We do need to replace the PPACA with something better.
Single-payer.
Romney sure as hell isn’t the guy to do it.
Last year, all it took was a single scary comment about Obama on election day to get my parents, who were going to vote for Obama, to vote for McCain. You can’t underestimate how little it takes to change some people’s votes.
I resemble that remark! 
What was the comment?
LAST YEAR?
I guess you came here in a time machine from 2009, right? Say, could you do me a favor? Nip on back to June 25, 2012 and pick me up a Mega Millions ticket for the June 26, 2012 drawing, with the numbers 3, 16, 23, 35, 36, and the Mega number of 20.
There’s a cool fifty bucks in it for you; what do you think of that, eh?
Re’ the OP, yes, I think Romney’s appearance and speech before the NAACP WAS a carefully planned bit of political theatre designed to bolster his pedigree with certain influential elements within the Right-Wing base.
He knows he has a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning any significant percentage of the Black vote; he has to focus on upping his approval rating with the White, Fox-watching folks who consider Obama and Michelle “arrogant” (uppity) and “living high on the hog on the taxpayers dime” (like most Black folks, in their mind…the disgusting, widely circulated “joke” about “another Black family living in public housing” springs, unbidden, to mind :smack:).
His remarks were designed to hit on certain key, hot-button issues (the repeal of “Obamacare”, “entitlements”, the “I am not a racist…my father supported civil rights” card, etc…) that would draw predictable reactions from the audience. Reactions which would be interpreted in a certain way by those he was actually speaking to (the White-Right base).
Sure enough, Limbaugh, the unofficial “brain” of this demographic, reacted exactly as planned and right on cue:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/07/11/romney-booed-because-he-is-white-limbaugh/
“He’s (Obama) confident they’ll boo Romney, simply because Romney’s white…”
Limbaugh went on to say that Romney’s remarks went “over people’s heads” and that members of America’s most venerable civil rights organization don’t understand what bootstraps are all about.
“This group wants to hear about tax increases and bigger government to take care of people,” he said. “They don’t want to hear about self-reliance. They don’t want to hear about free enterprise. Free enterprise means you’ve gotta do it yourself. Free enterprise means it’s up to you. Free enterprise means you’re on your own.”
The White-Right’s take-away from the speech?
Just as they already knew, Blacks are less intelligent (went “over people’s heads” INDEED!), racist, lazy, entitled and brainwashed into supporting Democrats.
And Romney’s positioning of himself as the “victim” of the NAACP audience’s sentiment (as interpreted by the White-Right) renders him more sympathetic to the demographic (who imagine themselves and indeed the whole country as “victim” to such racial politics).:rolleyes:
Again, read what I said. I carefully used the word “caused” rather than “persuaded.”
Um, 'cause those Black folks are scary? Especially when in a large group! 
With Romneycare, perhaps?
Oops, too late.
BTW (sorry, I missed the edit to add this to the above), re’ the “racism” of the NAACP/Blacks in general, how come they didn’t (negatively) boo BIDEN? He’s White.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57471161-503544/at-naacp-biden-booed-for-ending-his-speech/
“Just like Mitt Romney the day before, Vice President Joe Biden was booed at the NAACP convention. Unlike Romney, however, he wasn’t booed because the crowd was upset but because they didn’t want Biden to stop talking…”
Blacks tend to vote Democrat. If there happens to be a Black Democrat running, hey, all the better!
Biden focused on the clear differences between Democrat and Republican policy and vision of the future, which is, ultimately, what the Black preference for Democrats over Republicans boils down to. Increasingly, the Republican vision seems blindingly White and almost lynchingly mean-spirited.
Lord, given the degree of racism coming from the Right lately (with even ROMNEY spewing rhetoric about lazy Blacks with their hands out…it’s not just coming from the fringe-dwellers anymore :eek:) I can’t believe ANY person of color would vote Republican.
There are few to no such people. I mean, a small number of people will vote for those parties, but they are not gettable votes for Romney no matter what he says - and few far-right Republicans were going to stay home rather than vote for Romney when he’s running against Obama. That’s one reason I think this was a blunder rather than a calculated decision. He doesn’t expect to get much support from black voters, but he needs to look like he’s trying to get it much more than he needs to try to get votes from white people who are happy he pissed off an NAACP audience.
I think you may have hit the real issue here. It’s kind of all about how many of those people are there? Romney and his cronies, think there’s enough to carry the day.
I think they are deluded. They can’t see that times have changed because they are so busy trying to restore yesterday. When women didn’t want abortions, divorce was unheard of, and minorities knew their place. It was so awesome they want to go back.
Delusions keep you from seeing reality, even when it’s before your eyes.
The NAACP is like the SDMB - they aren’t listening to Romney after they find a reason to boo him. I suspect Romney knew that. But if he didn’t talk to the NAACP, the loony left would call him a bigot and a coward. Now they just call him a bigot.
If Romney is elected, he will be President over the whole country, not just the white parts. If the NAACP doesn’t look at it that way, oh well.
Regards,
Shodan
Would they be wrong? The NAACP is still a fairly big deal even if they’re not as vital or powerful as they were a few decades ago. The organization has extended invitations to both major-party candidates for a long time and both have traditionally addressed the NAACP. McCain (rightly) also accepted, and he was not booed.
I think Romney is going to have to work to get every Republican and Right-Wing Independent vote he can. As much as Obama is despised in those circles, their passion for Romney is lukewarm at best. Many flat-out hate him, not leastly because his “Romneycare” was the inspiration for “Obamacare” (this according to a 2006 interview with then Senator Obama, in which he specifically referred to to the then Governor’s system).
One, it’s very close; the battle seems to be coming down to the “other candidates” and “undecideds”(and to turnout, of course):
"Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Mitt Romney attracting 46% of the vote, while President Obama earns support from 45%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided."
Two, a recent (July 10) poll showing the two neck and neck also found that Obama has a strong lead in terms of the enthusiam of his supporters:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-07/11/c_131707203.htm
"…The Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that Obama and Romney remain in a deadlocked contest, tied at 47 percent among registered U.S. voters, little changed from the situation in late May.
Only twice in 13 polls in more than a year has either candidate held a lead exceeding the poll’s margin of sampling error, which is about 4 percent in the latest one. The race appears destined to remain extremely close in the final four months before the Election Day in November, The Washington Post said in a report…
Obama still holds a clear lead over Romney in terms of backers’ enthusiasm, as 51 percent of the Obama supporters back his candidacy “very enthusiastically,” compared with 38 percent of Romney’s, the poll found. "