White Men, A Key GOP Demographic, Discuss The Romney Appeal

[struggle4progress]

by Ari Shapiro
October 19, 2012 3:00 PM

... Gary Biser goes by the name "Moose." Stickers on his bike helmet say, "Life's too short to ride with ugly women," "No bar too far," and other things that can't be printed. He says he is resigned to voting for Mitt Romney ...

"I wish the Republican Party would quit finding multibillionaires to run just so they could get their message across," says Jerry Willard, who recently retired here in Florida ...

Even at Biketoberfest, this group is not a monolith. In the sea of sleeveless black T-shirts, tattoos and bandanas, one Obama supporter popped his head up.

"I like when they went after him for his birth certificate while he was going after bin Laden," says Ormond Beach, Fla., resident Bobby Sayward. "It's like this guy went right behind everybody's back and he got the job done. Why people don't vote for him is going to be an amazing thing to me" ...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/10/19/163239421/white-men-a-key-gop-demographic-discuss-the-romney-appeal

[Auntie Bush]

1. White men won't vote for Obama because they're darn right racist! End of story!

[Amphigouri]

2. I'm a white man.

I'm voting for Obama. I'm working phone banks and canvassing Florida too. I don't think there is evidence that even a significant minority of white men are racist. That seems like a pretty crappy generalization to me.

[arcane1]

4. I believe Auntie Bush's post was sarcasm n/t

[Auntie Bush]

6. I was referring to ReTuglican white men.

[boingboinh]

3. White Men statistically and Historically tend to vote Republican

Obviously not all but a majority of them do so although some can be racist and would never vote for a black man ever i think the majority just want anyone who is republican in the White House even if that candidate goes against their best interests and hurts them in the long run (and you can even show them the future and how their lives get crappier and they would STILL vote that republican into office).

White women tend to vote democrat because they're just thinkers.

[TeamPooka]

5. Stockholm Sydrome mixed with denial....

One of the men states:
"Whatever his feelings about Romney, Willard says he hates that Democrats are trying to cut more deeply into wealthy people's incomes.
"Have you ever been hired by somebody that was broke? Have you ever been hired by somebody that was poor? Have you ever been hired by someone that was on welfare or food stamps?" he asks. "I don't think I ever have. I don't think I'm ever gonna get there. So the question is: Who the heck hires us? People with money.""

Talk about an acceptance of your personal slavery in life.
this is what America has become?
Talk about a true nanny state!
The nanny are the rich folks though?
Please...
We are so screwed with citizens like this not helping....

[progressivebydesign]

7. Damn that man is stupid. FIRST you have to look at HOW they got rich.

Because it matters. Mitt got rich by making Americans POOR. End of story.