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aint_no_life_nowhere

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19. This in-your-face speech was intended to gain favor with the extreme right base

Wed Jul 11, 2012, 04:40 PM

Jul 2012

according to several commentators today on MSNBC. Failing to say anything positive about the first black President and failing to address important issues like Pell grants was a way of telling the extreme conservative nuts in his party "see, I'm not afraid of the coloreds and won't bend to their demands." He knows he won't get many black votes whatever he says, but this was about using the NAACP speech as a platform to stress his seriously conservative credentials with his cuckoo base.

And Martin Bashir just played a clip where Romney told Fox News he went there expecting to be booed. He suggested Romney went to the NAACP with a specific provocation in mind.

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Romney's unpleasant visit with the NAACP [View all] ProSense Jul 2012 OP

K & R. n/t FSogol Jul 2012 #1

Kick! n/t ProSense Jul 2012 #2

IMO the whole performance was a calculated appeal to his "base" tularetom Jul 2012 #3

Maybe, ProSense Jul 2012 #4

No, I think he went to mollify independents. Think it worked? aquart Jul 2012 #13

BINGO!!!! Kahuna Jul 2012 #17

But the campaign probably felt he couldn't afford not to go for the sake of appearances RZM Jul 2012 #7

I concur. Dogwhistle to the racist wing of the Repigs. If the coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #9

See my post above RZM Jul 2012 #11

I'm not giving Romeny one ounce of credit for this. If he was coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #18

I'm convinced the Obama campaign helped staff his campaign. I mean, really. That audience, includi monmouth Jul 2012 #5

Comment Jack Rabbit Jul 2012 #6

+1 uponit7771 Jul 2012 #12

Sounds like... Ron Obvious Jul 2012 #8

The look on his face during the booing was priceless. Puglover Jul 2012 #10

Did he ever use the phrase "you people"? Hugabear Jul 2012 #14

Even Shrub got a polite reception in 2006 at the NAACP Convention BumRushDaShow Jul 2012 #15

An unpleasant time was had by all. magnifisense Jul 2012 #16

This in-your-face speech was intended to gain favor with the extreme right base aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2012 #19

Did You Notice Romney's Expression DallasNE Jul 2012 #20