Romney goes birther: Makes joke about BC, makes clear his strategy of doubling down on whiteness

Salon ^ | August 24, 2012 | Joan Walsh, editor-at-large

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Donald Trump: You’re fired!

With his joke today that “No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate,” Mitt Romney moved down to the lowest rung of the Republican Party – the racist demagogues who know better.

(VIDEO AT LINK)

I don’t forgive poor, isolated, ignorant whites their racism, but you can understand some of the cultural programming that embedded it. Romney knows Obama was born here. And he also knows exactly what he’s doing with his birth certificate joke: he’s telling the bedrock Republican reactionary base to pay no attention to that Todd Akin mess, Romney will cater to their basest political desires.

We know Romney knows better, because his son Matt made the same joke, and had to apologize (if Tweeting “My bad” is an apology.) This time, he didn’t have one of his sons, or even Paul Ryan act as surrogate: Romney himself is willing to wade into the muck himself.

If you had any doubts about the racial animus behind Romney’s lying welfare ads – which polls show conservative whites view through a racial lens, thanks to Ronald Reagan painting “welfare queens” in such vivid terms – Romney’s descent into birtherism should dispel it.

Talk about doubling down on whiteness.

Mitt Romney should be ashamed of himself, and so should anyone who votes for him.

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Joan Walsh is Salon's editor at large and the author of "What's the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was."

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WHITE HOUSE INSIDER: How Mitt Romney Mentally Castrated The Obama Campaign
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/07/31/white-house-insider-how-mitt-romney-mentally-castrated-the-obama-campaign/

[backwoods-engineer]

“Nobody has ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know I was born and raised in Michigan.”

Yes. And if Romney would hit BO for his, I'd be able to vote for Romney without having to pinch my nose so hard. Ryan already makes it smell better.

[VanDeKoik]

“Mitt Romney should be ashamed of himself, and so should anyone who votes for him. “

Poor little white blogger. Afraid that people will stop talking about Akin?

btw It worked.

[circlecity]

"Talk about doubling down on whiteness."

If the last four years are an example of blackness then a little whiteness sounds pretty good right now.

[Robert DeLong]

I take it one must have an IQ that matches their shoe size to either work or comment at that site.

I won't even waste my valuable time to read all the way thru the 1 commentary.

BORING Joan.

[GeronL]

the race card.... it’s all they have apparently

[jersey117]

Obama should have quit while he was ahead but he kept doubling down on the tax returns. Payback is a b%*tch.

[jdsteel]

So the author of ""What's the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was." is crying racism.

No irony there.

[JPG]

A bad attitude and a perpetual grimace is no way to go through life, Joan.

[NewHampshireDuo]

I didn't think Romney had it in him, but I think he is actively starting to live inside Obama’s head. For the last few weeks he has been doing precisely what would most unhinge a person with Obama’s psych issues. I wonder if they've done a full psych profile on Obama and are aiming push him into unscripted rants.

I think that's a lot of what's going on. Make some "good natured" jokes that have the effect of kicking Zero in the b@lls. He can't take it and the race card ain't gonna work.

[JennysCool]

Romney’s living in the heads of the MSM, too. This was the top story on ABC’s top of the hour radio news!

[opentalk]

Especially when they resort to their overused, racist name calling, Alinsky tactics.

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She’s older than I am (52, she’s 54) so I’m hoping she’s pretty much through menopause, but who knows?

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Barry made the “dog on the car roof” joke three times in one day recently, did he expect no push-back? Say what you will, Mitt Romney is no John McCain.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Left sees everything through the lense of their butthole.

[mkjessup]

She might be 54, but it sounds like she's definitely doing some PMS-stressing
(I was going to make a joke about 'being on the rag' but thought better of it ;).

[txrefugee]

Well, pardon us hicks...but most of us know which hospital we were born in. As far as we know, Obama lists two hospitals. He is weird from the get-go.

[a fool in paradise]

There are gay dope addicted welfare “queens” as well.

Engaging in fraud isn’t a racial thing.

How many times can the media use “but he’s WHITE” as a reason to oppose a candidate or job seeker?

[Wurlitzer]

Even though they cannot admit it outright, the left has proved the birther issue is real as they went and played the RACE CARD (aka Toure syndrome) thus admitting they have run out of any debate points to refute the provable edits to the BC and Obama’s Senate campaign running him as Kenyan born.

VICTORY.

[Ohioan]

Read over the squib twice. There is no causal relationship between the assertions & the quotes--none. The "Editor-at-large," would flunk English in any respectable Grade School.

Of course, she is using Leftist "buzz-words," that are intended to achieve a Pavlovian response among those Lenin described as "Useful Idiots."

That said, I would hazard a guess that the hate driven lady does not believe that a family, community or nation should have a multi-generational perspective. She is harping on non-sequiturs that reflect a loathing of heritage.

William Flax [Truth Based Logic]