Mitt Romney is already in hot water over remarks he made at a closed fundraising meeting in May, remarks that have now gone public thanks to a secret video of the event. While pundits are latching onto comments he made about the 47 percent of voters who support Barack Obama—he essentially says they are lazy and want to live off government assistance—the Republican candidate also implies that Hispanic voters are a threat to the United States.
A full transcript of Romney’s remarks to his donors has been published by Mother Jones magazine, which was the first to leak the secret video.
Here, Romney is responding to a donor who asked what could be done to win the women’s and Hispanic vote:
“So we can capture women’s votes, we’re having a much harder time with Hispanic voters. And if the Hispanic voting bloc becomes as committed to the Democrats as the African American voting bloc has in the past, why we’re in trouble as a party and, I think, as a nation.”
Whoa. It’s one thing to say that the Republican Party will struggle without the Hispanic vote. But to say that “we’re in trouble…as a nation” if Hispanics become committed Democrats suggests that Mr. Romney is nationalistic and maybe, just maybe, a little racist. Perhaps he’s worried about the U.S. becoming a nation of Democrats, as Hispanics, who already make up the country’s largest and largest-growing minority, continue to lean Democratic in their politics. Or is he worried about Hispanics taking over and the white males who make up his constituency becoming a minority? One has to wonder.
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But then again, this is the same candidate who, earlier in the video, says that had his father been born of Mexican parents, he’d “have a better shot at winning this.” So maybe Mitt just has race-envy?
Romney hasn’t backpedaled from any of his statements caught on video, either. As to his comments about the 47 percent who support Obama (“…my job is not to worry about those people—I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives”), Romney says he stands by his remarks, even if they were “not elegantly stated.” In doing so, he only reaffirms what many of we 47-percenters have suspected all along—that he has contempt and disregard for anyone not in his tax bracket. Oh, but wait—he only paid 13 percent income taxes in 2010, so that puts many of us middle-class taxpayers in a higher tax bracket than him.
The good news for liberal-leaning Hispanics—that great threat to our nation of which Romney speaks—and the rest of the 47 percent of us lazy mooches is that Romney appears to have put the final nail in his campaign coffin. Even stalwart Republicans are quickly distancing themselves from his comments, and party insiders are—mostly off the record—saying his presidential bid, already struggling, is now D.O.A. For him to revive his chances of victory in the next 50 days seems unlikely. And for Hispanic voters—whose votes Romney pretends to court in public while writing them off in private—that’s very good news.
You’re a fool. Stop looking to be offended. Of course a republican is going to think a large group of democrats are going to hurt the country, this is completely uninteresting and your “commentary” is ridiculous.
Everyone should take offense at a presidential candidate that says he isn’t worried about 47% of the country. He is a fool and if you vote for him then quite likely you are a fool also.
Finally someone has a cure to the retarded hippie liberal disease: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5OdQGbVNa4
Republican rejects are the disease that have finally seen their demise!
I have to agree with you. I am a Democrat who is loving all of Romney’s gaffes, however this comment was taken out of context. He is saying that as a result of the large Hispanic Voting Bloc going in favor of the Democrats that spells danger for the country if they help swing the vote in Obama’s favor. This is just normal Democrat demonization not a racist comment.
I disagree. On the surface it looks like normal democratic demonization, but if you examine it in the context of his other statements, it’s chilling. He’s saying that if Hispanic-Americans do not vote in a way that serves him and the interests of the GOP, then it’s a danger to the country–subversive. You’d better play along and rubber stamp policies to benefit the 1% or you are a threat to the nation. That’s what he’s saying. He doesn’t see the voters as free citizens who have the right to vote for anybody on the ballot. He sees the voters as peons who serve him and his rich friends–or else.
He’s already written off 47% of the country, and will ignore them and their interests should he win. Mitt is scum.
Really, it’s nobody’s business how anybody else votes. We have secret ballots in this country, but pollsters and political operatives divide the country into groups, and the media broadcasts how various groups vote. I hate it.
And the media never analyze or criticize the white male vote. If candidates lose that vote, it means they need to work harder. If candidates lose the Hispanic vote, it means Hispancs are a threat to the nation. Or racist, as The NY Times, and Bill Maher characterized Hispanics in 2008 when the majority voted for Hilary in the primaries.
Perhaps it is both.
I am offended by Mitt Romney and the true fools who don’t seem to care just how awful he is as long as they put a Republican in office. That is what is ridiculous. I saw a post on FB today that said, “Republicans hate Obama more than they love America.” Obviously not all Republicans as many of them are distancing themselves from Romney and a few are even speaking out against him. But it seems that post fits all the ones that bury their heads in the sand, pretending not to notice that Romney is a dishonerable and pathetic excuse for a human being. THAT is ridiculous, sad, and shameful.
Does Romney care that African-American’s were originally overwhelmingly Republican voters whom the Republicans lost to Democrats due to civil rights?
Or that a large percentage of the 47% who Romney described as so-called hardcore Obama supporters are actually Republicans and red state-ers, who Romney has now insulted and promised NOT to consider if he gets to govern this country. His policies will, if they are implemented, will result in cuts to entitlement programs that will severely hurt poor and low middle-class white Republicans, who presumably will become Democrats when they realize that Romney is coming for them, too?
Maybe poor or lower middle-class white Republicans assume that Romney is lying or will change his mind, or that Democrats won’t let Romney implement his plans. If I were them, though, I wouldn’t count on it.
oes Romney care that African-American’s were originally overwhelmingly Republican voters whom the Republicans lost to the Democrats? African-Americans and Hispanics could actually start to support Republicans if Republicans actually had policies that supported them.
Or that a large percentage of the 47% who Romney described as so-called hardcore Obama supporters are actually Republicans and red state-ers, who Romney has now insulted and promised NOT to consider if he gets to govern this country? His policies will, if they are implemented, result in cuts to entitlement programs that will also severely hurt poor and low middle-class white Republicans, who presumably will become Democrats when they realize that Romney is coming for them, too?
Maybe poor or lower middle-class white Republicans assume that Romney is lying or will change his mind, or that Democrats won’t let Romney implement his plans. If I were them, though, I wouldn’t count on it
Sounds like quite a dork to me lol.
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I’d be more worried about your own racism than any perceived racism in others. Why don’t you try identifying as American instead of Latino. Let American culture be your primary culture.
Apparently someone hasn’t noticed that “American culture” is all of the above. Every city and part of the country has unique multi-cultural celebrations. It’s what makes us far stronger (and way more fun) than mono-culture countries. Except when we try to put them down and tell them to conform.
“American culture”
LOL. What is that, exactly? Widespread obesity? Intellectual sloth? Beer-battered primetime hour-long police procedurals?
As Latinos we to be informed voters, regardless of how we vote. Let’s encourage our kids to vote and also work the polls. We need to work on solving issues affecting our families and making the commitment to volunteer.
Eso! My kids have noticed the lawn signs for local initiatives. And even though it’s a pain, I do make sure to explain what they are about and the importance of voting to make our voices heard.
“We can get the women’s vote…” Really? Because as of yesterday, all polls were indicating that women in swing states and nationwide are breaking pretty significantly for President Obama. In fact, he leads you, Mitt, by 10 percentage points nationally with women. Will we be the next group that is a danger to the nation?
Sorry, “we can CAPTURE” the women’s votes…. worse.
If you are middle class as you say, then you are not in the 47%. You can’t be both just to make your article sound better.
If you are a Demacrat please read this if you think Romney is a threat….
A Comprehensive List Of Obama’s Worst Executive Orders JUNE 15, 2012
There have been over 900 Executive Orders put forth from Obama, and he is not even through his first term yet. He is creating a martial law ‘Disney Land’ of control covering everything imaginable. Some of the executive orders he has signed recently have been exposed thanks to ‘Friends of Conservative Action Alerts.’ They have compiled a choice list of ‘Emergency Powers, Martial law executive orders’: Get your headache medication out while you still can without a prescrip-tion.
* Executive Order 10990 allows the Government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
* Executive Order 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
* Executive Order 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels, and minerals.
* Executive Order 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
* Executive Order 11001 allows the government to take over all health education and welfare functions.
* Executive Order 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.
* Executive Order 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
* Executive Order 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate and establish new locations for populations.
* Executive Order 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities.
* Executive Order 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Execu-tive Orders issues over a fifteen-year period.
* Executive Order 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
* Executive Order 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute Industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.
* Executive Order 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit, and the flow of money in U.S. financial institutions in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when the president declares a state of emergency, Congress cannot review the action for six Months.
It is more than clear that Obama is planning for the total control and takeover of America via Martial Law. Food, energy, transportation work, banking, and health. He has it covered.
While Obama is busy pulling executive orders out of the sky to control everything inside our country, he has been issuing executive orders to force us to submit to international regulations instead of our Constitution.
Sher Zieve exposed this in one of her recent articles. Damn the U.S.
Constitution, damn the American people and damn U.S. sovereignty.
You put this together along with a list of his czars and you have a very dangerous man. Why won’t the liberal left hear and understand this!
Republicans don’t use google? http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/executiveorders.asp
Come on.
Hack pieces like this is the main the reason why I do not respect journalists these days. What Romney is saying is not racist. His statement was in no way an indictment on hispanics. He took a shot at Democrats (par for the course for almost every republican candidate), but only an extremely partisan idiot could take his statements to mean that hispanics are a threat to the country. Let’s look at what he said a little more closely and without the partisan bias polluting the analysis:
“So we can capture women’s votes, we’re having a much harder time with Hispanic voters. And if the Hispanic voting bloc becomes as committed to the Democrats as the African American voting bloc has in the past, why we’re in trouble as a party and, I think, as a nation.”
He is accurate on one thing: If the Republicans are losing votes with minorities as badly as they have been, they are basically fucked for this election. When you look at “and, I think, as a nation,” that part is obviously a shot at Democrats saying that voting for that party is the threat to the nation. That, of course, is just an opinion, which is obviously expected to be held by a Republican. While I do not like Romney or agree with everything he says, I at least have the respect and intellectual honesty to oppose the things he ACTUALLY says rather than to extrapolate from his statements things which are not really being communicated and demonize him that way. There is plenty of shit you can pin Romney for saying, like “Corporations are people” and that 47% of people are willingly dependent upon the government with an unwarranted sense of entitlement. There is really no need for this shit in journalism, especially on a guy who already has enough things to ding him for.