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mucifer

(23,553 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:29 AM Sep 2012

Rmoney's little Mexican joke on the hidden video isn't gonna help him either.

In one of a series of clips from a secretly recorded campaign fundraiser, Mitt Romney makes a joking reference to his family's complicated history in Mexico, guessing that if his father George had been "born of Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this."

The comments mark a rare moment of levity on immigration for Romney, and they're a somewhat unusual reference to his family's complicated history in Mexico. "I mean, I say that jokingly," he adds, "but it would be helpful to be Latino."

"My dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico ... and uh, had he been born of uh, Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this," Romney says in the video. "But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/mitt-romney-helpful-to-be-latino_n_1891359.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

Poor Rmoney, if only his parents were Mexican he wouldn't be so disadvantaged in our society. But, unfortunately for him they were white millionaires.


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Rmoney's little Mexican joke on the hidden video isn't gonna help him either. (Original Post) mucifer Sep 2012 OP
Good point marions ghost Sep 2012 #1
One of these days, we're going to hear him make this claim: Arkansas Granny Sep 2012 #2
His little Mexican joke has not made me think any less of him. Xipe Totec Sep 2012 #3
Had GR been born in Mexico of Mexican parents, he couldn't have run for PRESIDENT, Mitt you moron! WinkyDink Sep 2012 #4

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
1. Good point
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:36 AM
Sep 2012

....and I hope Mexican & other Latinos hear it.

With his Mexican background, you'd think he'd take the opportunity to use it to advantage, as a bridge rather than a wall.

Nah.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
4. Had GR been born in Mexico of Mexican parents, he couldn't have run for PRESIDENT, Mitt you moron!
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 09:42 AM
Sep 2012
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