I was going to lay off the posting after the two I’ve put up today…but this one’s just fucking classic. Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for the Presidential Election this year, has done a hell of a lot to scare me. No, I don’t care that he’s a Mormon, for the record. I do think the man is the political equivalent of a used-car salesman, who will do anything to sell you a car get elected. I also about fell out of my chair when, during the YouTube Republican debates, he tried to wordsmith his position that waterboarding wasn’t torture (and slammed the ACLU at the same time so he could pander to the crowd), something that fellow candidate John McCain immediately slammed him for.
Do you think he’s willing to say anything to get him elected, too? Well, here’s support for our theory. From the New York Times:
Mitt Romney, whose 1950s manner and celebratory drink of choice call to mind a milkshake man more than a rap singer, gave a shout out Monday that left no doubt that he had spent little time listening to hip-hop.
Mr. Romney, the Republican candidate from Massachusetts by way of Michigan and Utah who enjoys a milkshake at the end of a long day, stopped by a staging area for a Martin Luther King Birthday parade here. In his dress shirt and tie, and with his unwavering smile, he walked over and posed for photographs with a group of black youngsters. Putting his arm around a teenage girl, he waved to the cameras and offered, “Who let the dogs out?” He added a tepid “woof woof.”
Somewhere, the Baha Men, the Bahamian group whose 2000 song the candidate was referencing, must have been shuddering.
Kevin Madden, one of Mr. Romney’s campaign boyz on the bus, said the candidate had been joking around and had responded to someone who asked, “Who let you out?”
Later, Mr. Romney admired a child’s gold necklace and said, “Oh, you’ve got some bling-bling here.”
He spoke of Dr. King at an earlier appearance in Jacksonville, calling him “an individual who showed in many respects how to bring down some of the barriers to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence.”
It has been rare to find the Republican candidates speaking at events with any significant number of black voters. Some 96 percent of the voters in the last Republican primary, in South Carolina, were white; 2 percent were black, according to exit polls conducted by The State, a newspaper in Columbia, S.C.
Mr. Romney also issued a statement that the “failure of our inner-city schools is the greatest civil rights issue of our time.”
……….who let the dogs out? Woof woof?
Wow. That’s just…wow. Un-fucking-believable. I have never, in my entire life, seen someone be more blatantly disingenuous in order to pander to a crowd. Mitt Romney is about the absolutely whitest man in the race for the presidency. He’s the most polished politician in the race, bar none, and everyone knows it. For him to try and sound “hip” and “with it” with shit about bling-bling and letting the dogs out makes for one of the funniest (and saddest) stories in the campaign so far.
Did he seriously think anyone would believe he knows what it’s like to be black, or connect with the inner city population with this crap? Jesus H. Christ, Romney. You fucking dolt.
Yo, keep it up, dawg. You gonna watch yo’ presidential chances flip on the down lo somethin’ quick. Fo’ shizzle.
–Jer
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