Mittens must love the taste of his own foot…
In one of a series of clips from a secretly recorded campaign fundraiser,
Mitt Romney
makes a joking reference to his family’s complicated history in Mexico,
guessing that if his father George had been “born of Mexican parents,
I’d have a better shot at winning this.”
The comments mark a rare moment of levity on immigration
for Romney, and they’re a somewhat unusual reference to his family’s
complicated history in Mexico. “I mean, I say that jokingly,” he adds,
“but it would be helpful to be Latino.”
Romney spent much of the primary season broadcasting a harsh stance
on immigration, famously suggesting that he’d make life so unbearable
for those in the U.S. without papers that they would “self-deport.” Then
he moved gingerly to the center once he had clinched his party’s
nomination, mindful of Latinos’ increasingly large slice of the
electorate.
“My dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was
the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico … and uh, had he
been born of uh, Mexican parents, I’d have a better shot at winning
this,” Romney says in the video. “But he was unfortunately born to
Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I
mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino.”
Romney’s line got laughs, perhaps because his audience was aware that
he could indeed use all the help he can get with Latinos. President
Barack Obama is walloping him by a nearly 40 percent margin in polls of
the group.
WTF? When did white privilege ever wish to partake in the minority struggle, because life would be “easier?”
No Mittens! If you were a Mexican, you’d be in touch. You’d
understand the plight of the disenfranchised. You wouldn’t assume that
all poor, needy, infirm, challenged Americans are on the take, here for
the single purpose of living off of you.
But you aren’t a Mexican or ANY minority. You aren’t deserving of
being a Mexican. You don’t have the qualities, moral, work ethic or
understanding. Get this loser outta here!