Posted on 08/24/2012 4:24:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 08/24/2012 4:50:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
His comment had nothing to do with race. Most black people in America’s ancestors have been here longer than most white people’s ancestors.
Thanks, I enjoyed yours, also, one of my favorite WWII quotes...
Most of us, who actually love our country more than we hate Romney, think it was kind of funny. Romney, who was last on my list (ahead of Ron Paul) is actually showing he is not going to surrender like McCain did. I profoundly disagree with him on social issues, but I have to give him some credit for this. If I don’t hate him enough, can I count on you to pick up the slack for me?
I have a better idea. Someone needs to deliver a bag of Chick-Fil-A chocolate chunk cookies to him. He doesn’t have to go there himself and doesn’t even have to eat them. He can say thanks and that he will eat them later. Of course, he can’t because the Secret Service did not see the chain of possession from when they were purchased. But just showing them at a campaign stop will send a subtle message that would drive the left insane.
From somewhere in the crowd the bag can be passed until it reaches the stage. Someone on stage will take it and go to hand it to him. He can say, “These look great. I will have them after lunch.” The crowd will go wild.
I think there’s about a 50% chance it will be on camera. My bet is that it will be triggered by some unscripted event - a question that he wasn’t expecting, a heckler, teleprompter malfunction, something with the dog, etc.
Ideally it would be something self-inflicted. Nothing makes a narcissist angrier than realizing he is publicly wrong and not being able to blame it on someone else. (not that he wouldn’t try)
If something happened that made him look foolish in public, he wouldn’t be able to bear it. Something like “corpse-man” only bigger. Plus it would have to be something where he was smart enough to know he’d been made a fool of in real time. With “corpse-man” he was blissfully unaware.
I’m also thinking there might be a series of minor meltdowns leading up to it. I think he’s wound up tight and getting tighter.
The general decrease in sycophantic adoration has got to be grating on him. A narcissist like him needs that constant worship and he’s not getting enough any more to fuel his fragile ego.
I’m just hoping the trigger isn’t a heckler or something that can be blamed on conservatives. I’d prefer to see a hissy fit over a teleprompter glitch.
Wouldn’t it be fascinating if he lost it during one of the debates?
Gov.George Romney, Mitt Romney’s father, was born in Mexico of U.S.citizen parents who repatriated to the U.S. when George was 7-years old.
George, who attempted a run for the Republican presidential candidacy in 1964, pulled out of the running when questions over his natural born Citizenship eligibility came to the fore.
Gov. Mitt Romney, Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep.Ron Paul all provided proof of Article II eligibility for the office of President. All three provided proof of NBC status.
Anyone who believes Romney cares nothing about natural born Citizen eligibility doesn’t know the Romney family history.
Unlike everyone else, still no photograph of Obama’s birth certificate.
Isn’t it amazing how a simple comment meant obviously as a joke (he is on the record as saying Obama IS a citizen in his opinion)can bring out the gloom and doomers here who will claim it will surely cost him the election.
Ridicule is definitely the best mode of attack against the arrogant, self aggrandizing empties on the Left.
Never mind. Stay home on 11/6. You may get a personal thank you from Obamugabe.
Ouch! Better put some ice on that.
“Hey, look at me. I’m a white guy.....To me, he said “Hey look at me. I’m a politician in a national forum and I’ll show you my birth certificate if you ask for it.”
The founding fathers recognized natural born citizens (NBC) and "naturalized" citizens. That 's why they call it a "naturalization ceremony" when and immigrant is made a citizen. An NBC can have either NBC parents, or Naturalized Citizen parents.
George Romney and his wife were US citizens when Mitt was born in Ford Hospital in Detroit. That makes Mitt an NBC. There is no debate.
Mitt's father, George, was also born a US citizen, though he was born in Mexico, to US citizen parents who never relinquished their citizenship in the US. George Romney was also considered eligible for the presidency as an NBC.
If you view the video again, you can note that Mitt pauses after naming the hospitals while the crowd cheers (cheers the hospitals being named). It had that great of a “hometown” impact.
The classic definition of NBC is "born in the US, of parents who were US citizens at the time of his birth". Since George Romney was born of two US citizens, he automatically inherited US citizenship even though born in Mexico. Therefore George Romney was a US citizen at the time of Mitt's birth in Michigan. Therefore Mitt meets even the most stringent qualifications of natural born citizenship.
There is no requirement that both parents be NBC in order to confer NBC status, only that they be citizens. Otherwise NOBODY who was not exclusively descended from the original colonists would qualify for NBC. Andrew Jackson was born of two Irish immigrants who arrived in the US two years before his birth, and nobody objected that he wasn't NBC.
Find a new hobbyhorse to rock, TN.
Why isn't the media replaying Obama bringing up the issue himself at the Press Club Dinner, to make fun of Trump who was in the audience?
Romney is running a much better campaign than McCain ever did...and Ryan scares the shit out of the Dems - brilliant pick.
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Mitt/Paul are more street smart than Barry/AxelDork/Ploof the Magic Dragon gave them credit for.
You have done your homework, I accept that as a fact, and this is something we can both agree on.
I bash Romney because he is an elitist who came from an elitist family with a political history. Romney, Rockefeller, Kennedy, or Bush, all those families are more alike than different.
They may or may not have worked hard to earn their wealth and status but all those families felt they were entitled to office and were condescending and looked down on members of the unwashed masses such as myself.
The key thing in your post was when questions arose over his eligibility. Was George Romney ignorant of Our Constitution or was he being dishonest and trying to pull a fast one?
My guess is that Our Constitution be damned, that he was quite dishonestly trying to pull a fast one.
He like all elitists felt entitled to office and they would do whatever it took by hook or crook.
The Kennedys felt entitled and that is why Joe Kennedy went out and bought the West Virginia primary in 1960.
The Bushes felt entitled that is why when the former head spook in the Ford-Rockefeller administration made a promise to the unwashed masses about no new taxes, he cared little when he broke his word. He felt entitled to office and if he had to make promises that he most likely never intended to keep, so be it
During the primary, Mittens invoked a very curious phrase, something called voluntary deportation. That phrase was just as stupid as "legitimate rape" but illegal immigration is not a hot button issue to either party elite and the elites have made a tacit agreement not to bash each other on illegal immigration for political gain.
What did Romney mean by illegal deportation? Who knows, his handlers wisely told him to shut up about it and avoid it. Illegal immigration is not an issue either party elite wants to debate.
Since Romney has not uttered the phrase again, I will speculate on how such a curious phrase came about.
Romney used the phrase because voluntarily deportation because it accurately described what his family did when they needed to avoid the heat over polygamy in Utah.
I would assert that this revealed his elitism. He thinks that illegal immigrants can just up and leave and comfortably go live in Mexico if they so choose.
That is what his family did because they had the material means to leave the country comfortably and go live comfortably in Mexico and come back and live comfortably when all the dirty details of the polygamous acts had been ironed out.
I know something about the Romeny family history and I will not speculate on how much Romney cares about natural born citizenry.
I simply he know he was an elitist born and bred and he like his Daddy feels entitled to hold this nation's highest office and even though Mittens is qualified, he will do or say whatever it takes to rule over us the unwashed masses.
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