Romney Claims He Lost Because of Obama "Gifts"
Source: New York Times
A week after losing the presidential election to President Obama, Mitt Romney blamed his overwhelming electoral loss on what he said were big “gifts” that the president had bestowed on loyal Democratic constituencies — including young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics.
In a conference call on Wednesday afternoon with his national finance committee, Mr. Romney said that the president had followed the “old playbook” of wooing specific interest groups — “especially the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people,” Mr. Romney explained — with targeted gifts and initiatives.
Read more: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/romney-blames-loss-on-obamas-gifts-to-minorities-and-young-voters/
I was sort of feeling sorry for the guy, until I read this.
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well he is an out and out racist. All the dog whistles of free stuff, phones ect during campaign. His whole campaign was geared to white low information voters, not minorities at all in any respect. His religion has racist doctrine still adhered to even though in 1979 they allowed that black people had souls and could go heaven, thank kolob! I'd be willing to bet that the reason they changed this doctrine is because they were facing lawsuits. Please, not a racist per se????
Right. You are entitled. Oopps I'm sorry I used that entitlement word that only the lazy 47% expect.
overused???
Go to utube and bring up Obama comments during the election season. See if you think the nword is overused in this country. See if dog whistle politics was not overused? There is a large group of RACISTS in this country and thank god I know where most are now because of this election and the color of our POTUS. This and a few other sites are the only savings grace for me in making the judgement that there still are reasonable, rational people out there with a different skin color than most minorities. Women of all racial persuasions saw mittshit for the person he is and that contributed in a large way toward the victory we had, so, when and if our group is overwhelmed with the racial hate out there in the land of the free and home of the brave I hope I'll be dead and gone. Mittshit tried to stir the melting pot to see if the "cream" would rise to the top, but this time the mix held. Next time? Who knows.
at least not since Reconstruction.
Before the Bush's and Reagan you had Nixon, whose "Southern strategy" appealed directly to white racists, who used the IRS to harass political opponents, who prolonged the Vietnam war and invaded two other countries (Laos, Cambodia), who overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile, who started "the war on drugs," etc. etc.
Before Nixon we had Eisenhower, who was silent in the face of McCarthyism (Joseph McCarthy R-Wisconsin), who overthrew the democratically elected governments of Guatemala and Iran, leading to brutal dictatorships in both nations, planned the Bay of Pigs, hugely accelerated the arms race (it was only at the END of his term did he warn us about the military-industrial complex he did so much to create), and appointed a red-baiting sociopath (Richard Nixon) to be his vice president.
Before Eisenhower was Dewey, who ran campaigns in 1944 and 1948 that accused Democrats of trying to overthrow American democracy and replace it with communism--who in 1944 ran a campaign that accused FDR of wanting to establish a monarchy, criticised his war leadership, etc. Among the GOP's strongest supporters back then were folks like the Jew-baiting, race-hating Father Coughlin, the Rush Limbaugh of his time.
Before Dewey we had Harding-Coolidge-Hoover. Hoover was a fairly decent businessman who was clueless about dealing with the depression--but I'll admit he was a humanitarian (did great things relieving hunger in Europe post WWI). Coolidge made his reputation as a union busting pro-business hack ("The business of America is business"
. Harding was so corrupt ("Teapot Dome" he would probably have been impeached if he hadn't died in office.
Even TR--who was progressive in some respects--was a believer in eugenics, imperialism and "the white man's burden" and waged a brutal counter-insurgency to keep control of the Philippines after we took that region from Spain.
Andrew Johnson WAS impeached--for defying progressive Republicans in Congress and pandering to the sensibilities of the southern racist oligarchy who launched the Civil War.
I'm not saying Democratic history was all roses--especially not the southern wing of the party up until the 1970s--but the GOP record for the most part is not what I would call "fairly decent." I WOULD be willing to say that until recently it had managed to keep its worst elements from completely dominating its establishment and national agenda, but that's about as far as I'd be willing to go.
I guess all things are relative. And so I would agree that, relatively speaking, this GOP is the worst it's been since, say, 1932.
PS: I left out Reagan and the Bushes, figuring their administrations were all recent enough not to need any elaboration here.
A penniless, powerless labor force?
Cue the DU "Cry Me A River" String Quartet!
rocktivity
"Gifts" Are.
1. He will be our President for the next four years and continue to get things done.
2. He beat you.
Oh and Mitt - I am not from the African American or Hispanic community and am definitely not a young person, but President Obama can woo me any time 
Cry yourself to sleep everynight.
Why is he still talking? 
...Democratic presidents aren't ALLOWED to do that...WAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!"
friends like yours I don't need any enemies. The whole campaign...ohh never mind. Mittshit, Murdock, Akins, Walsh, lost for racist, sexist, anti-veteran remarks. Remember 47%. All or most who voted for mittshit were, to be nice about, intellectually challenged.
ZERO gifts! And I voted for Obama! Total ripoff!
maybe you voted for the wrong person. I'm sure if mittshit had won, you and your friends would have got everything you desired.
