Romney's Become A 'Race-Mongering Pyromaniac'
from Michael Tomasky:
With his incendiary speech to the NAACP, Mitt crossed an ugly line. No longer simply spineless and disingenuous, hes now become a race-mongering pyromaniac.
Until yesterday, I thought of Mitt Romney as a spineless, disingenuous, and supercilious but more or less decently intentioned person who at least wasnt the race-mongering pyromaniac that some other Republican candidates of my lifetime have been. Then he gave his speech to the NAACP, and now I think of him as a spineless, disingenuous, supercilious, race-mongering pyromaniac who is very poorly intentioned indeed, and woe to us if this man sets foot in the White House as anything but a tourist.
Lets bat the easy charges out of the way first. Spineless? Please. Hes taken every position the Tea Party base has asked and a few they didnt. Disingenuous? Easy. Either hes lying now about health care, abortion rights, his support for Ronald Reagan, and his posture toward Grover Norquists no-tax pledge, or he was lying then. Supercilious? Seems appropriate and perhaps even a bit mild for a man who made fun of NASCAR fans rain ponchos and a working-class familys cookie service.
But he wasnt a race-baiter until yesterday
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read more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/12/michael-tomasky-on-mitt-romney-the-race-baiter-at-the-naacp.html
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