You may not have understood Romney horrible speech, but it's pretty simple what he was doing...

[MrScorpio]

He was merely Whitesplaining the positions of Black People BACK to a group of Black People.

Everything Romney said was done in a way that some average White guy who actually doesn't care about the concerns of Blacks in general is supposed to understand about what "decent" Black People are supposed to stand for in this country.

That's something that's only done by a person who has absolutely no desire to connect with his audience. It wasn't even as good a job of pandering that he normally gives to the audiences that he addresses. It's clear that he didn't think that the NAACP was even worth that effort this time.

His point was that, if Black People refused to give him any credit for his fucked up positions, then Blacks as a whole won't find any favor were he to win the White House. I really don't know enough about him to automatically assume that he's too obtuse in actually thinking that he could actually pull something like that off. But, if he did, then he really has no idea what Blacks are like.

Other than showing his pale ass off to Blacks for the benefit of his racist Right Wing base, I have no idea why Romney gave that speech in the first place.

[goclark]

1. Was he speaking to the NAACP? They gave him a Big long BOO!

President Ben Todd Jealous was all Fired Up and mentioned Mitts name ~then you heard Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[unblock]

2. he had to give the speech. it's how racists prove they're not racist.

oh, and also not a pandering flip-flopper. he shows he's a principled guy by not giving a "special interest" anything they want!

[wilsonbooks]

36. Kind of. It is how mitt proves to racist teabaggers that

he can be as racist as they are. And look, those uppity negrows booed him.

He was speaking to his base and it was a big success when viewed that way.

[unblock]

52. the way i see it, most racists aren't of the overt variety, they need some cover

i don't think most racists out-and-out white supremacists.
most need a way to be able to deny the label "racist", to themselves and to others.
the need to be able to say thing like, we've achieved equality so there's no longer a need for anti-discimination laws, etc.

so speaking to the naacp is one of those ways they can say, see, i'm not a racist for supporting rmoney, rmoney's not a racist, he was willing to talk to them, they were the ones who were the bigots because they just booed him, etc.

[Raine]

3. Mitt got what he wanted, a big BOO from the audience which will go over well with his white racist

base ... which was the reason for going in the first place IMO.

[MissMarple]

5. I agree, trolling for bottom feeders.

[RKP5637]

27. Yep, I think that's a lot of what it was all about! Romney saying I'm just

a cool nice good white guy going there to make a nice guy speech and see how they booed even me. Yep, his corner of the racist bigoted white guys were getting charged over that I bet. The plan all along.

[patrice]

29. But I'd bet the BOO didn't move any votes from one column to the other either.

The speech was nothing but racist fodder, never intended to persuade anyone Black or White. It was theater, so it deserved booing. The people he was actually talking to, Racists, were never going to do anything but vote for him anyway. There wasn't anyone out there going "Oh, I was kind of liking Obama, but now . . . . Oh!! darn those Black Americans! I'm voting for Rmoney!"

[coalition_unwilling]

38. I'm more cynical than you. I think Romney deliberately and

with malice aforethought provoked the boo as an insurance policy on the white racist voting bloc.

Sure, no white who liked Obama suddenly switched to liking Romney b/c blacks booed Romney. But there are and were white racists thinking to themselves, "Sure, Obama's a N****r, but Romney a gazillionaire so why bother?" Now they're thinking, "Romney may be a gazillionaire but, damn, if the N*****s hate him, he can't be all bad. Maybe I'll vote for the Not-N****r."

All about firing up the base to GOTV. Utterly despicable and un-befitting a mature democracy. But perfectly suited to a racist, bigoted party.

[corkhead]

49. I think you are right. he needs to energize those he should normally be able to take for granted.

Rmoney is such an awful candidate, the knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, racist dumb-fuck vote is pouting and considering staying home this November.

[Raine]

42. Yes, EXACTLY. It was solely to speak to his racist base

to show his base that he was "brave" enough to go directly to the NAACP and tell them he was going to undo what Obama had done. All theater and sickening to try and use the NAACP to do it. They rightly booed him, knowing exactly what his game was.

[lunatica]

50. Now you're giving Mitt some kind of genious psychological master powers

Up to now he's been a major foot in mouth candidate. Now suddenly he's doing it deliberately out of some nefarious psychological warfare masterfullness?

I think he really thought the NAACP would do no worse than just sit politely on their hands because that's what they usually do when they don't agree with an invited speaker. And he did bus in non NAACP blacks to support him. This all came out in the Ed Schultz show when he interviewed a couple of NAACP leaders.

[Scuba]

4. Cementing his racist bona fides.

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. "Whitespaining" ...

I love it!

[VWolf]

54. I concur - perfect word for what he was doing. n/t

[HopeHoops]

7. At least he didn't try to do a rap song for them.

Although that WOULD have made for some great late-night comedy segments.

[Ikonoklast]

12. Please, God, no!

If Mitt had done that I would've pooped my pants.

[HopeHoops]

16. "I like big bucks and I can not lie..."

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. "What's 50 grand to a motherfucker like me...

Can ya please remind me?"

[HopeHoops]

22. It's ten bets during a debate.

[Johnny Noshoes]

24. nt.

[RKP5637]

31. It would have been as bad as Gregory and Rove dancing at the Radio-Television

Correspondences' Assn. Dinner. Was that ever creepy.

[MsPithy]

14. Nor did he repeat the "Who let the dogs out?

Ooo, Ooo," face-palm inducing, ultimate cringe-worthy incident.

[HopeHoops]

17. Yeah. He would have been pissed that the dogs weren't still on the roof of his limo.

[KurtNYC]

32. Mitt kicking it old school

What is the weird hand thing he does when approaching her?

[AlinPA]

8. That speech was made to make points with his racist base. Every time they play it on TV, he

gets cheers from the right-wing. "He tol' 'um by Gawd- good fer him- booed by the NAACP "

[pa28]

11. Exactly. He wanted a hail of boos and he got it. n/t

[HopeHoops]

18. And he was grinning the whole time.

[kentuck]

9. I could have written a much better speech for him.

He could have talked about his father and how he had the support of a lot of African American voters. He could have talked about jobs. He could have had a good word to say about Barack Obama, even if he disagreed with him. He could have offered a jobs plan. He could have offered a vision for this country. But he chose to appeal to the other angels of our nature.

[pacalo]

39. You're right; if his appearance had been sincere, those are the points he'd have made.

He was going for some campaign soundbites that would please his base.

[freshwest]

10. Please explain, why is he lecturing the NAACP when he should be there to learn their goals?

I am sure that a group with as long a history as the NAACP has a lot to teach anyone who visits their meetings.



Color me.. Clueless.

[NNN0LHI]

13. He was trying to imitate Ronald Reagan

Because he knows there are still plenty of Reaganites around and they are racist pieces of shit. At least all the ones I know are.

That is what he was doing.

Din

[liberalmuse]

15. How dare they?

He is a plantation owner, and they neglected to give him the respect of such! (said in a long ago Southern drawl). Don't be fooled. I think you all clearly heard the dog whistle this time.

[spanone]

19. k&r...

[gollygee]

21. I think if you don't understand it, you aren't his intended audience

And his intended audience was neither African American nor the NAACP. Fox will talk about this, and they will pass the message onto his target audience. THEY will understand.

[coalition_unwilling]

41. Real message: "The President is a N****r". Sorry, but try as I might, I

cannot find any other way to parse this. It's despicable and contemptible and it makes me question my commitment to non-violence.

[coalition_unwilling]

47. I never thought I would hate and despise any politician more than I

hated and despised Bush. Boy, was I wrong.

But I sure wish i could rec your reply.

I think the phrase we're both struggling for is "Wipe that silly smirk off his face."

[HangOnKids]

48. Indeed

The swaggering foppish rich lucky sperm club has gotten on my last nerve. I am so done with these foolish lick spittle ass clowns. ENOUGH. When the fuck are the grown ups going to come out and smack the crap out of these fools? ENOUGH. I. Have. Fucking. Had. it. ENOUGH.

[Frank Cannon]

53. Mitt makes Dubya look like Dag Hammarskjold

And while that goof was in office, I actually found myself looking back fondly on Richard Nixon.

They just keep getting worse and worse, don't they?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Obama had just made a speech to the NAACP to cheers

So Romney wanted to make sure his base would see him as the Great White Hope that would put those people back in their place.

[Fresh_Start]

25. I figure he just wants a photo with a group of black people

that his team can photoshop whatever he wants to appear...

[patrice]

26. Some people are saying he used the NAACP to show off for his racist pals. I think that's called

dogwhistling.

Maybe that too is why the speech was so bad, or maybe Rmoney is REALLY just this limited insensitive self-centered person.

[Marr]

28. I think he was there specifically to get that "boo". His campaign hopes it will

drum up support from racists and Teabaggers. After all, if "the blacks" hate him, he can't be all bad, right?

[fascisthunter]

30. yop

[just1voice]

33. What was the NAACP thinking when they awarded Condi Rice and Colin Powell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP_Image_Award_%E2%80%93_President%27s_Award

It appears as if the NAACP could care less about war crimes as long as the criminals fit their criteria. It's likely Mutt Robme viewed that as favorable as he's a criminal too and that factored into his decision to speak there.

[DearAbby]

34. It was rude...speaking over the audience

to another audience. Extremely RUDE

[pacalo]

40. +1. Well put.

[JoeyT]

35. I have no idea why he sees being a dick for the benefit of his racist

Right Wing base as a good thing.

It's not like racist shitheads are going to be swing voters in this election. He's pretty much got them on his side by default. Now he needs a whole lot of people that aren't racist shitheads to vote for him, and he's not doing a very good job of convincing them.

[HangOnKids]

46. RMoney is a stupid dick

Please don't expect anything else from this fuckwittage.

[NYC_SKP]

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[lunatica]

51. He probably thinks he understands people who aren't like him

In this case he proved his total lack of even the most elemental understanding of people who aren't like him with the NAACP. But this isn't the first time he's done this. It stands out more because of the way the crowd reacted to what he was saying. But he's done the same thing with every group he's been in. Even middle class 'regular' Republican white people who have extended an invitation to have him in their homes for a chat with their group. Remember his shuddering revulsion of the cookies he was offered?

One could wonder whey he even bothered to go to that little meet-up too.