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2016 Postmortem

yellowcanine

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1. He incited the boos by dissing the ACA and deriding it as "Obamacare"

Reply to zbdent (Original post)

Sun Jul 15, 2012, 10:52 AM

Jul 2012

Yes I know that some supporters use the term "Obamacare" but he clearly meant to be derisive. It was intentional. He wanted to get boos from African Americans in a calculated way of building up credibility with winger bigots.

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You know ... Romney's appearance at the NAACP convention drew relatively polite boos from [View all] zbdent Jul 2012 OP

He incited the boos by dissing the ACA and deriding it as "Obamacare" yellowcanine Jul 2012 #1

and they didn't respond in the way that he hoped ... zbdent Jul 2012 #2

I think it is much to the NAACP members credit that Mitt was listened to mysuzuki2 Jul 2012 #3

I remember also Newt Gingrich saying that he would speak to the NAACP convention zbdent Jul 2012 #4