Who, exactly, called him a bigot? Condescending and out-of-touch, sure. But not a bigot, that I can recall.
I wouldn’t call Romney a bigot. But he knows he needs the bigot vote…
Perhaps he’d be in favour of the health delivery system reforms he enacted in Massachusetts?
Yes, in my opinion.
Having it both ways is always good. If Romney doesn’t speak to the NAACP, then he is a bigot who is afraid of black people. If he does, he is a bigot who is trying to appeal to other bigots who are afraid of black people.
If you are going to be condemned no matter what you do, and Romney will be condemned by the SDMB no matter what he does, Romney might as well do what he thinks is right. So he goes to speak to the NAACP, and they start booing him before he can complete his sentence. OK, so they’re not listening. At least he tried.
Regards,
Shodan
I agree that if president he won’t make race a factor.
Just income.
Right… His handlers let him go without a thought on what would happen. Remember the don’t even let the press near him any more for fear he shoots off his mouth again. And every move he makes is for a nefarious purpose - him getting elected.
But, to be fair to Mitt, I think it was a shock to him to discover that there were African-Americans who are not rich or CEOs.
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I agree that if president he won’t make race a factor.
Just income.
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Sort of like Obama. 
-XT
Won’t someone think of the grave diggers?
Don’t narrow this down into just those options.
If Romney was a bigot and a coward before addressing the NAACP, simply going there and speaking doesn’t make him less of either epithet. Having had a long history of saying whatever he thinks his audience wants, and trying to appeal to them by tacking as far right as possible, this one incident which won unanimous praise in right-wing circles doesn’t change what he’s done or who he is.
You want real courage? He should stand up to the conservative and Tea Partiers, the ones whose votes he can reliable affect, and tell them what they don’t want to hear. If he doesn’t want to seem bigoted, he should at least take some heat from his white constituents and praise something like Affirmative Action. Those actions of his would have real consequences. The fact that guys on Fox News or Rush is praising this and showering him with praise for courageousness is proof that there wasn’t a losing scenario for him going to the NAACP as far as his base was concerned.
Speaking of having it both ways, what kind of response from the NAACP audience would it take for you to think Romney came out worse? If booing him made him look good, and cheering him would definitely do that, how could they have responded?
Without knowing much about it myself, that certainly sounds plausible. I don’t doubt that Romney’s deliberately talking out of his ass for political reasons. By focusing on the economy in his campaign, he has to portray everything that Obama does as bad for the economy. Next: “Killing bin Laden destroyed jobs!” 
W. Bush also spoke there during the 2000 election and later as President in 2006. I don’t think he spoke before the 2004 election though. He received only applause, not boos, both times. The speech from 2000 was actually pretty good.
Oh, so you’re saying that one showing of this soundbite is going to convert a bunch of bigoted, tepid Romney supporters into solid Romney voters? Sorry if I didn’t think you’d put forth something so utterly implausible. My bad.
Nonsense. I’m sure he’s quite familiar with the existence of A-A service staff.
You’re doing it again. You’re importing the concepts of “a bunch” and of an immediate solid conversion into my comments.
You know what? You’re not speaking to me in good faith. I suspect you aren’t fully aware of this, so take this as me informing you of the fact. I expect you to do better.
Hello, I share this quote from my Facebook news feed as my first post:
I think Mr. Romney got exactly what he was looking for.
Unless it was votes. He’s been working hard to shore up his conservative credentials for a long time, but he needs people other than the Republican base to vote for him. Can I ask again how the NAACP reaction was racist? If they didn’t boo John McCain in 2008 (and haven’t booed other white Republican candidates), doesn’t that make it very unlikely race had anything to do with their reaction to Romney?
“Obamacare” an insult?
Martin Bashirhit it out of the park today.
magellan01, you do realize I was asking you about the whole “the NAACP is racist for booing Romney” thing, right? I’m still waiting for you to explain how booing Romney was racist, or how you determined the booing was related to his race and not his statements and policy proposals. Or else you could withdraw the comment if you can’t support it.
Yeah, I don’t get that either. The administration has (quite cleverly, I might add) decided to own the Obamacare label.