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kpete

(72,006 posts)
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 09:17 PM Aug 2012

MITT'S not the guy you can have a home-brewed beer with-He's the guy you can go cross-burning with.

Romney's Birther Joke Reveals The True Mitt-

Nice empty way to change the conversation from Todd Akin, er Paul Ryan, er Romney's taxes, er Romney's foreign trip, er Romney's taxes, er Romney's taxes. And to pull Rush and the gang behind his campaign.

"Under my moderate Massachusetts governor exterior and moderate (and no surprisingly US Chamber of Commerce-like) views, there is a guy who would like nothing better than to join you folks somewhere in Michigan to put on our robes and burn a cross." That kind of dogwhistle.

He's not the guy you can have a home-brewed beer with. He's the guy you can go cross-burning with.

That, guys and gals, is the secret handshake.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/8/24/18209/0654

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MITT'S not the guy you can have a home-brewed beer with-He's the guy you can go cross-burning with. (Original Post) kpete Aug 2012 OP
Wasn't Romney born in Mexico? Rosa Luxemburg Aug 2012 #1
It's a weird fact that while Paul Ryan, a Catholic, could get into the KKK, Mitt dimbear Aug 2012 #2
You can also play "dodge the draft". "evade the tax" and russspeakeasy Aug 2012 #3
Mitt Romney campaigns with a KKK slogan riverbendviewgal Aug 2012 #4

dimbear

(6,271 posts)
2. It's a weird fact that while Paul Ryan, a Catholic, could get into the KKK, Mitt
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 09:34 PM
Aug 2012

as a Mormon could not. Mormons aren't permitted to join the KKK by the church. Don't know how the KKK feels.

riverbendviewgal

(4,253 posts)
4. Mitt Romney campaigns with a KKK slogan
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 09:53 PM
Aug 2012

I found this on that link you put up from one of the comments

http://rt.com/usa/news/romney-kkk-klan-america-835/

If you’ve caught Mitt Romney speak for more than five seconds during any of the recent televised GOP debates, you’d know that he spent most of his life in the private sector. But did you also know he’s been dropping KKK slogans on the campaign trail?
Among the little quips that the millionaire, wealthy, white former governor from Massachusetts has spat on the road to Washington is the urging to “keep America American.” Oddly enough, those three words aren’t all that original, as it looks as if ol’ Mitt has stolen the slogan from a group you wouldn’t normally think to cross — the Ku Klux Klan.
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