Why (and How) Romney is Playing the Race Card---By Ron Fournier

[kpete]

Why (and How) Romney is Playing the Race Card

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Working-class whites, in other words, are already more prosperous and secure than working-class minorities, but they’re less optimistic because they don’t believe they’re climbing anymore. They’re simply trying to hold on to what they’ve got, and see others grabbing at it.

Thanks to Romney, they see minorities grabbing at their way of life every day and all day in the inaccurate welfare ad. It opens with a picture of Bill Clinton (a man obsessed with Macomb County and Reagan Democrats) signing the 1996 welfare reform act, which shifted the benefits from indefinite government assistance to one pushing people into employment and self-reliance.

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Translation:

Sweaty White Laborer = That’s Me!

“You Wouldn’t Have to Work” = Blacks Wouldn’t Have to Work

“They Just Send Your Welfare Check …” = They Just Give Your Pay Away to Lazy Blacks

“Plain Old Welfare” = Remember Those Welfare Queens? They’re Back.

Before explaining why these tactics work (and why Romney’s team knows, or should know, they are playing the race card), let’s quickly deal with this fact: The ad is wrong. As countless impartial fact-checkers have noted, the Obama administration memo cited by the Romney team actually gives states flexibility to find better ways of getting welfare recipients into jobs.


http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-election/why-and-how-romney-is-playing-the-race-card-20120829?page=1
http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-election/why-and-how-romney-is-playing-the-race-card-20120829?page=2

[Wellstone ruled]

1. The men behind the

curtain are -----------------KKRove---------Ed Glisppe,these two turds are pro's at this type of crap.

[freshwest]

2. They've never quit using Lee Atwater's racist 'Southern Strategy':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater#Atwater_on_the_Southern_Strategy

I won't post it because of the racist language, but anyone who wants to know what we're dealing with here should give it a look.