"12 Bigoted Taunts Peddled By Romney Camp and Allies" at AlterNet

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12 Bigoted Taunts Peddled By Romney Camp and Allies

at AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/12-bigoted-taunts-peddled-romney-camp-and-allies?paging=off

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1. Only Anglo-Saxons need apply. As recounted above, and blogged by Sarah Seltzer, a Romney adviser, speaking with the Daily Telegraph's Jon Swaine, made anonymous comments that essentially boiled down to the notion that Obama couldn't understand the UK's special relationship with its former colonies across the pond because he is either a) the son of a non-American African; b) black; c) not white; d) not Anglo-Saxon; or e) all of the above.

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2. Dog-whistling "Dixie." Here we speak of Romney's linguistic outreach to those Republicans for whom the Civil War never ended. During the campaign for the Iowa caucuses (which Romney lost to former U.S. senator Rick Santorum, himself a master-race-baiter), Romney unveiled his nativist, dog-whistling strategy for the general election. Chauncey DeVega unpacked an awkward bit of Romney phrasing, delivered during the heat of the Republican presidential primary:


Mitt Romney wants to "keep America America." The dropping of one letter from the Ku Klux Klan’s slogan, “Keep America American,” does not remove the intent behind Romney’s repeated use of such a virulently bigoted phrase. While Mitt Romney can claim ignorance of the slogan’s origins, he is intentionally channeling its energy.

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[RedStateLiberal]

1. Most despicable campaign for president...

...EVER!

[freshwest]

3. Agreed. Haven't seen the worst of it. All that money he's getting will be in negative ads soon.

[RedStateLiberal]

4. Yeah, it's going to get real ugly

but I wonder if it will backfire on Rmoney since Obama has such high likeability numbers. I hope so.

[freshwest]

5. I think we need to donate as much as we can. Too many people are affected by these ads. And...

I'll never forget the dirty dealings behind Reagan getting elected. It's a dreadful thought, but what if Romney and his war buddies (I'm sure you've seen some of the threads on who is advising him) engineer some foreign event like the Iranian hostage event, or some accident or outbreak?

I know it sounds like I"m visiting Paranoid Plaza here, but I've just seen too much stuff in my life. Did we ever think we'd seen our President gunned down, then his brother?

So many people that have worked for progressive causes have been killed. It's not an area we delve into, as it's CS territory, but the effect on the population is undeniable. Anything that happens, and there's no telling what the results will be.

And the right has made so many inroads, almost completely controlling communications until we're almost strangled here. We also have a lot of economic problems.

If I were a lot younger, I wouldn't know there anything other than the right and the lunatic right in this country. Or that there ever was, the way they are erasing history. We're in a tough spot here.

[RedStateLiberal]

6. Agreed. I'm worried about voter suppression too.

Desperate people do desperate things and I wouldn't be surprised if we se more and more attempts to destroy our democracy. I wouldn't put acts of violence past the extremist wingnuts any day - especially when their party is self-imploding.

The way I see it the Republican party is on its way out in a big way. They cannot continue to work against the interests of the middle class and play partisan politics without an uprising on election day. There's only so many lies and deceptions from politicians that people can take. I know most aren't really paying attention and some don't even care and our media is totally pathetic, but I have to remain hopeful that some the truth filters out into the consciousness of the electorate. People have to stand up to them and hold them accountable or we are in big trouble as a nation.

How anyone could even think about voting for a Repub is beyond me, but I don't know what the solution is to try to educate people. We just have to keep standing up for the truth and doing the best we can I guess. Donate. Organize. Volunteer. I plan on doing all of that because I can't watch our country go down the drain.

[progressivebydesign]

2. Just hideous. I'm speechless. n/t