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kpete

(71,997 posts)
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 06:08 PM Aug 2012

In Romney’s view, he should be able to say anything he wants. Tell any lie.

In Romney’s view, he should be able to say anything he wants. Tell any lie. Mitt can attack Barack Obama as the ‘Great Other’, as an unAmerican usurper of power, as a man who hates the Country, as a man who doesn’t understand American values, as a man who wants to take the money from hard working white folks and give it to lazy brown people, as a man unfit for office, as a man who is incompetent, as a man who is a gangster thug and a thousand other insults and lies that Romney and the Wingnuts use to attack President Obama ALL the time. In Mitt’s view race-baiting is justified if it might help him win. He is fine with using code-talking to call Barack Obama an angry black man that all decent white folks should fear. It is OK for Team Mitt to lie and to promote policies that will destroy the middle class. It is OK for his side to bring all the crazy they want.

What is not OK—what Mitt thinks is out-of-bounds—is for anybody to notice and/or mention any of it.

If you call Mitt out for the ways that his policies will hurt the middle-class: that’s going over the line. If you notice that Mitt made his fortune through tax dodges and the destruction of American Jobs, well that is out-of-bounds. If you point out that Mitt is using memes about welfare and angry black men to appeal to white fear and anxiety, then you’re guilty of hate speech.

Mitt Romney wants to run for President with all aspects about him, his campaign, his record, his plans, his statements and his goals off-limits from any review or discussion.

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In Romney’s view, he should be able to say anything he wants. Tell any lie. (Original Post) kpete Aug 2012 OP
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Such a good, moral, Christian Republican. louis-t Aug 2012 #2
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How do you sleep with all that anger? louis-t Aug 2012 #4
You mean "business as usual". HopeHoops Aug 2012 #5

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louis-t

(23,295 posts)
2. Such a good, moral, Christian Republican.
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 06:15 PM
Aug 2012

Such 'family values' and all that. You DO remember that false accusations is a sin?

Response to louis-t (Reply #2)

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