The Romney campaign continues to demonstrate that it will engage in any and all kinds of bigotry in Romney's quest for the White House. Romney has made it clear he despises LGBT Americans - one has to wonder when he'll start openly calling us "faggots" and "dyke's" among other expletives - and now seems to be willing to use fairly transparent code language to pander to those who hate non-whites, and blacks in particular. While Romney hasn't used the "N word," I suspect it is bandied about by many of Romney's supporters, especially in southern states. Under Romney's scheme of things, if one isn't white, a conservative Christian or Mormon, and preferably very, very wealthy, one is relegated to the "you people" category as pronounced by Ann Romney. First coverage highlights from The Telegraph followed by remarks by Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas via the Virginian Pilot.
In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Mr Obama, whose father was from Africa.
“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have”. Mr Romney on Wednesday embarks on an overseas tour of Britain, Israel and Poland designed to quash claims by Mr Obama’s team that he is a “novice” in foreign affairs. It comes four years after Mr Obama’s own landmark foreign tour, which attracted thousands of supporters.
Mr Romney has not made any commitments on the Falklands, but several in his foreign policy team favour backing Britain and publicly rejecting claims of sovereignty by Christina Kirchner, the Argentine president. Under Mr Obama the US remains neutral.
The advisers could not give detailed examples of how policy towards Britain would differ under Mr Romney. One conceded that on the European crisis: “I’m not sure what our policy response is.”
The advisers spoke on the condition of anonymity because Mr Romney’s campaign requested that they not criticise the President to foreign media. After another adviser criticised Mr Obama in a German magazine last month, the President sharply instructed them that “America's political differences end at the water's edge”.
Locally, Romney's transparent racial message is being picked up and some are condemning it. A case in point is Senator Louise Lucas:
Racism is alive and well in Virginia and is subtly manifested in Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's outreach to voters, a Portsmouth state senator said in a recent interview.
On "The John Fredericks Show" on WHKT (1650 AM), Lucas said Romney is "speaking to a segment of the population who does not like to see people other than a white man in the White House or any other elected position."
"Let's be real clear about it. Mitt Romney is speaking to a group of people out there who don't like folks like President Barack Obama in any elected or leadership position," Lucas said. "We know what's going on here," she continued. "Some people may be afraid to say it, but I'm not. He's speaking to that fringe out there who do not want to see anybody other than a white person in a leadership position."
Given the nature of today's GOP, both nationally and certainly in Virginia, Lucas' statements hit at the truth. Yes, the GOP doesn't like the truth spoken, but that doesn't make statements such as Lucas' untrue. One need only look at the descendants of segregationists who control The Family Foundation which in turn controls the Virginia GOP to find the racist undercurrent. Indeed, the only time The Family Foundation wants anything to do with blacks is when in cynically manipulates black pastors to carry its anti-gay, anti-modernity agenda like trained circus dogs.
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