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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:14 PM Oct 2012

Romney Camp: Obama Not Macho Enough For Latinos

Source: Buzzfeed

Romney Camp: Obama Not Macho Enough For Latinos
Romney gains in Florida. Democrats say the polls are skewed.

...........

Romney aides told BuzzFeed their polling indicates that Obama’s biggest vulnerability among Hispanics is that he’s viewed as a “weak leader.” In much of Latino culture, they explained, political leaders are expected to demonstrate a macho bravado, and Obama’s debate performance last month — with his verbal pauses, downward gaze, and weak defense of his own record — seemed to exacerbate the incumbent’s perception problem.

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/romney-camp-obama-not-macho-enough-for-latinos



this will NOT get him votes.
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Romney Camp: Obama Not Macho Enough For Latinos (Original Post) kpete Oct 2012 OP
Will not get WHO votes? bucolic_frolic Oct 2012 #1
as a Latina kpete Oct 2012 #3
Calm intelligence is macho in any culture. Don't you think? zonkers Oct 2012 #36
It seems pretty clear that it will not benefit Willard Romney... rfranklin Oct 2012 #5
that comment is a bit offensive. sdfernando Oct 2012 #18
Meant to be humor directed at the homophobia of right wingers... rfranklin Oct 2012 #20
I understand that but what you effectively did sdfernando Oct 2012 #24
If it got the goat of a right winger, absolutely... rfranklin Oct 2012 #27
Wow, Romney brought you down to his sexist pig level.... bettyellen Oct 2012 #40
Give me a break! rfranklin Oct 2012 #41
Attitudes like yours display frat boy idiocy and entitlement. bettyellen Oct 2012 #43
whoa woolldog Oct 2012 #50
You shld hear me go off on parasitic wall streeters bettyellen Oct 2012 #51
Thank you, bettyellen. David Zephyr Oct 2012 #91
Just as many cannot resist the opportunity.. LanternWaste Oct 2012 #71
False equivalency. I'm just asking him to conform to community standards. And if we had none, DU bettyellen Oct 2012 #87
Jujitsu you say? Ash_F Oct 2012 #48
Well, it sure Vanje Oct 2012 #80
Thank you, Vanje. David Zephyr Oct 2012 #92
It was not offensive. Booster Oct 2012 #34
EarlG thought it was. uppityperson Oct 2012 #84
to You, maybe. But DU TOS says different. bettyellen Oct 2012 #86
You have no idea how offensive it is. See Post #88. David Zephyr Oct 2012 #94
See my post below. It is extremely offensive. David Zephyr Oct 2012 #89
Thank you, sdfernando David Zephyr Oct 2012 #90
THANK YOU EarlG. Thank you. uppityperson Oct 2012 #83
Indeed, thank you, EarlG. David Zephyr Oct 2012 #93
This message was self-deleted by its author Raine1967 Oct 2012 #85
I'm gay. My family is mixed Anglo & Latino. David Zephyr Oct 2012 #88
Macho Mitt went to Paris to avoid Viet Nam yet was pro war vinny9698 Oct 2012 #70
Keep it up Mittens, stereotyping is always a great way to get votes. madaboutharry Oct 2012 #2
a salesman always sells. Justice Oct 2012 #6
Sounds like a SNL skit -Quien es mas macho? flamingdem Oct 2012 #4
Poor mittwits.. "Self Deportation" shite wasn't cutting it so Cha Oct 2012 #14
Beat me to it! DirkGently Oct 2012 #44
Oldie but goodie LiberalElite Oct 2012 #56
Maybe, but does he eat enough watermelon to get the Black vote? McCamy Taylor Oct 2012 #7
I was wondering that myself............ lunasun Oct 2012 #10
And Romney IS macho!?!?!?! JaneQPublic Oct 2012 #8
yes, with his lily white hands and black hair dye and orange make up it must be true! wordpix Oct 2012 #61
Mitt es Muy Pendejo. There..how's my Cha Oct 2012 #9
Bien Senorita! cheezmaka Oct 2012 #28
Senorita, I Cha Oct 2012 #32
Muy pendejo doesn't make sense, but it works for me anyway!! a la izquierda Oct 2012 #66
Ah yes, it's been awhile since I Cha Oct 2012 #68
Oh yes... a la izquierda Oct 2012 #69
Great,...now Mitt is not only going to have a spray tan but have craft fur glued to his chest. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #11
omg.. the mental picture... must burn eyeballs now. nt progressivebydesign Oct 2012 #26
Wanna see something really funny? I googled "Macho Mitt", clicked images and look what popped up.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #39
Ask Bin laden & Qaddafi skeewee08 Oct 2012 #12
Sho you right! cheezmaka Oct 2012 #29
Obama is on the ball Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2012 #55
Some Yiddish? garthranzz Oct 2012 #13
Yet ANOTHER reason for Obama to take a page from Joe's Debate Playbook 99th_Monkey Oct 2012 #15
Really, Romney? Is that all you got? Xipe Totec Oct 2012 #16
Tasteless, as Usual chuckstevens Oct 2012 #17
Latinos want a Latin American Estrongman Enrique Oct 2012 #19
That's what I accused my Mexican friend of last week. ErikJ Oct 2012 #21
Sad, deluded man who gets zero sympathy from me. Let him grovel at the feet of Snr. Romney. WinkyDink Oct 2012 #37
not fair to attribute it to his ethnicity Enrique Oct 2012 #42
He denied it of course-kind of. ErikJ Oct 2012 #49
Oh for pete's sake AspenRose Oct 2012 #22
Rosie Perez had something to say about this matter earlier this week. . . DinahMoeHum Oct 2012 #23
Spray tans and now this? Any other racist stereotypes Mitt wants to trot out?? Sombreros? progressivebydesign Oct 2012 #25
this calls for some photoshopping! Where is earlg? wordpix Oct 2012 #59
As we get closer, the insanity from those people will get even worse... and-justice-for-all Oct 2012 #30
As someone might say in Mexico to Rmoney... caveat_imperator Oct 2012 #31
Yeah, I think I can Cha Oct 2012 #33
Mitt should get a visit from a few thousand Dream Act kids. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #35
Arizona says otherwise. Panasonic Oct 2012 #38
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Keep talking Mittens. eom uppityperson Oct 2012 #45
Quien es mas macho? no_hypocrisy Oct 2012 #46
And BO beats Mitt by almost 20% with Fl Latinos.... bettyellen Oct 2012 #47
Mitt es un racisto y un loco pendejo, mis amigos. AverageJoe90 Oct 2012 #52
WaPo - "Romney: Arizona immigration law a `model’" TomCADem Oct 2012 #53
Way to be sexist AND racist all at once. alp227 Oct 2012 #54
oh and the ELITIST, PAMPERED Mittwitt IS? Skittles Oct 2012 #57
WTF? These repukes have NOTHING & among non-whites O is leading in FL w/ 74% of the vote wordpix Oct 2012 #58
Soaking oneself in orange tan doesn't make one macho. LisaL Oct 2012 #60
yeah, because nothing says manly man Adenoid_Hynkel Oct 2012 #62
Macho? You mean like this: silvershadow Oct 2012 #63
that's why he's trailing by over 50 pts with said group? MjolnirTime Oct 2012 #64
And, of course, FlaGranny Oct 2012 #65
LOL And Mittwit is macho? Live and Learn Oct 2012 #67
He's too big of a coward to even mount that 7 brazillion dollar fancy pranc'n horse. Twinkle toes lonestarnot Oct 2012 #73
As I recall your say'n there mittwitt, you are not latino enough. Asswipe! lonestarnot Oct 2012 #72
Mitt Must Just LOVE Megahurtz Oct 2012 #74
Chocolate Romney says what? yardwork Oct 2012 #75
So "Tan in a Can" gets Mitt "there"? LOL n/t fredamae Oct 2012 #76
Give me Ricardo Montalban over either Presidential candidate any day slackmaster Oct 2012 #77
LOL. Let's start with the DREAM Act. And talk about an inclusive American culture. pinto Oct 2012 #78
Ms. Perez says otherwise.... ariesgem Oct 2012 #79
Wow - stereotype much? Politicub Oct 2012 #81
Maybe he meant to say "orange enough" n/t Politicub Oct 2012 #82
Macho Man GeorgeGist Oct 2012 #95
 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
5. It seems pretty clear that it will not benefit Willard Romney...
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:19 PM
Oct 2012

besides, Mitt has no cojones, he is un maricon.

 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
20. Meant to be humor directed at the homophobia of right wingers...
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:42 PM
Oct 2012

Not in any sense intended to put down anyone else.

sdfernando

(4,935 posts)
24. I understand that but what you effectively did
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:51 PM
Oct 2012

was call someone a "faggot" using a derogatory term in Spanish. Would you do that to someone in English??

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
40. Wow, Romney brought you down to his sexist pig level....
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 08:01 PM
Oct 2012

That's the only ju jitsu in evidence here.

 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
41. Give me a break!
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 08:04 PM
Oct 2012

Attitudes like yours are why people buy into the right wingers mocking political correctness." You just can't resist the opportunity to be the righteous one.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
43. Attitudes like yours display frat boy idiocy and entitlement.
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 08:08 PM
Oct 2012

Go spread RW memes with your whining about PC. Sorry it's such a struggle for you to try and be funny that you need to resort to homophobia. Perhaps if that's all you got, you could spare us?

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
71. Just as many cannot resist the opportunity..
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 08:26 AM
Oct 2012

"You just can't resist the opportunity to be the righteous one. "

Just as many cannot resist the opportunity to be the vulgar one. Six of one, half a dozen of the other...

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
87. False equivalency. I'm just asking him to conform to community standards. And if we had none, DU
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 07:16 PM
Oct 2012

would lose even more fine people that it already has over lazy silly thoughtless "humor" that really isn't.

Vanje

(9,766 posts)
80. Well, it sure
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 05:18 PM
Oct 2012

as fuck got MY goat.

I'm sure DU's whole LGBT community is "enjoying" it.
Thanks.
Just thanks.

Homophobic slurs should NOT be okay here.

David Zephyr

(22,785 posts)
94. You have no idea how offensive it is. See Post #88.
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 07:27 PM
Oct 2012

And tell that to my murdered friend. Oh, that's right. It's not possible. Because he's dead. I can't even call him.

Oh, those that killed him (while others stood by) used that very term that you claim in either innocence or in malice that is not offensive.

Is this how you want to be known here?

Response to rfranklin (Reply #5)

David Zephyr

(22,785 posts)
88. I'm gay. My family is mixed Anglo & Latino.
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 07:19 PM
Oct 2012

My companion of 37 years is Latino.

I spent half of my youth in South America.

Your use of that term is extremely offensive and way out of line.

You should have the decency to self-delete it.

It's not funny. At all. In any possible twisted manner. Whatsoever.

I had a gay friend who was murdered in Lima, Peru. He was taunted as a "maricon".

Not funny.

vinny9698

(1,016 posts)
70. Macho Mitt went to Paris to avoid Viet Nam yet was pro war
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 07:50 AM
Oct 2012

So who is more macho Ted Nugent for playing with feces or Mitt for hanging out in Paris, while promoting the Viet Nam war>

Cha

(297,251 posts)
14. Poor mittwits.. "Self Deportation" shite wasn't cutting it so
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:27 PM
Oct 2012

they're grasping at "macho" straws.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
10. I was wondering that myself............
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:24 PM
Oct 2012

so is saying he will be more like Castro or Chavez
what bull shit

a la izquierda

(11,795 posts)
66. Muy pendejo doesn't make sense, but it works for me anyway!!
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 06:51 AM
Oct 2012

You'd want to say: Mitt es el mayor pendejo del mundo (Mitt is the biggest asshole in the world.)

Cha

(297,251 posts)
68. Ah yes, it's been awhile since I
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 07:15 AM
Oct 2012

lived in San Diego.. Muchas Gracias, a la izquierda(I know what that means)

Only it's "Mundo", no?

Mitt es muy nacho.

a la izquierda

(11,795 posts)
69. Oh yes...
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 07:35 AM
Oct 2012

I'm still getting used to a touch screen, and didn't have the Spanish spell check on.

Thanks!

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
15. Yet ANOTHER reason for Obama to take a page from Joe's Debate Playbook
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:28 PM
Oct 2012

Which states on page one,
"Kick ass and take no prisoners, laughing all the
while, truly enjoying standing up for the truth."

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)
16. Really, Romney? Is that all you got?
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:29 PM
Oct 2012

Here is a short list of female Latin American presidents.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11447598

Now shut up and learn you candy assed putz.

 

chuckstevens

(1,201 posts)
17. Tasteless, as Usual
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:32 PM
Oct 2012

Wow; that not a stereotype, is it? Mittens is so clueless that if he were addressing a Latino crowd and made reference to the Frito Bandito, he wouldn't understand why people were, rightfully, upset. Sorry, for the DU younger members. This was acceptable stereotyping in advertising in the early 1970's.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
19. Latinos want a Latin American Estrongman
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:35 PM
Oct 2012

says Mexican Mitt

https://twitter.com/MexicanMitt

OBAMA IS NOT ENOUGH OF A LATIN AMERICAN ESTRONGMAN FOR LATINOS TO VOTE FOR HIM, I AM YOUR MORMON BATISTA

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
21. That's what I accused my Mexican friend of last week.
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:46 PM
Oct 2012

He says its Gore's fault that we are in todays problems. He says Gore gave up too easily which I couldnt figure out why he would vote GOP since then. Then last week I figured it out. Gore wasnt macho enough for him because he quit and so I think he went GOP after that. He loves listening to "El Rushmo" every day who he calls SOO funny. He seems obsessed with the GOP myth that Gore says he "invented" the internet. I have told him a dozen times Gore said he created the internet not invented it but he's hopelessly gone now. He is poor with 2 kids and has huge medical bills he'll never be able to repay.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
42. not fair to attribute it to his ethnicity
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 08:08 PM
Oct 2012

if you were just teasing, ok, but if you really think he has that attitude is because he is Mexican you need to get over that, imo.

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
49. He denied it of course-kind of.
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 09:00 PM
Oct 2012

Last edited Mon Oct 15, 2012, 09:31 PM - Edit history (1)

But its the only explanation I could come up with for his bizarre reasoning. He is so brainwashed he even hates other Mexicans now and he is very Latino looking himself. Sad. He's a very good semi-famous local photographer which is my biz tie to him. He is always wanting to talk politics and how bad Obama is. He has told me several times he blames it on Gore losing! Go figure.

AspenRose

(14,916 posts)
22. Oh for pete's sake
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:50 PM
Oct 2012


Divide and conquer is not going to work. Even younger generation Cubans are going for Obama.

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
25. Spray tans and now this? Any other racist stereotypes Mitt wants to trot out?? Sombreros?
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:55 PM
Oct 2012

Siestas??? What a bunch of disgusting people. Words fail me.

and-justice-for-all

(14,765 posts)
30. As we get closer, the insanity from those people will get even worse...
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:07 PM
Oct 2012

none of it true of course, but just plane insane.

 

Panasonic

(2,921 posts)
38. Arizona says otherwise.
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:29 PM
Oct 2012

The Latino population is swinging Obama's way in a big way.

Arizona's other half - the LDS, will soon have to make a choice once a new scandal about his tithing will be an issue.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
47. And BO beats Mitt by almost 20% with Fl Latinos....
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 08:29 PM
Oct 2012

And they're the most conservative Latino voting block in the country.
Good luck to him after stereotyping Latinos as shallow and foolish!

 

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)
52. Mitt es un racisto y un loco pendejo, mis amigos.
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 10:17 PM
Oct 2012

My Spanish is kinda rusty but hopefully the point gets across.

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
53. WaPo - "Romney: Arizona immigration law a `model’"
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 10:43 PM
Oct 2012

Romney once again is trying to suppress Latino votes while also muddling his prior strident anti-immigration talk.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romney-arizona-immigration-law-a-model/2012/02/23/gIQA8ULZVR_blog.html

In terms of the impact it could have in November, the most important moment of last night’s debate may have come when Mitt Romney hailed the Arizona immigration law as a “model” for the nation while Sheriff Joe Arpaio beamed approvingly.

After moderator John King noted that Sheriff Arpaio said it was “political garbage” to not arrest and deport illegal immigrants, and asked Romney if he supported “aggressive” arresting and deportation, Romney went further than just endorsing Arizona’s approach.

“I think you see a model in Arizona,” Romney said, citing the employment verification system, stepped up border patrols and a border fence as goals for his presidency. “You do that, and just as Arizona is finding out, you can stop illegal immigration,” Romney said, adding that he would halt lawsuits against the Arizona law “on day one.” Santorum went even further.

I don’t know how this plays among swing voters — some polls have shown national support for the Arizona law — but if Obama and Dems can make this stick, Romney may have ended any hopes of making any real inroads among Latino voters. And that could have far reaching ramifications in the general election.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
58. WTF? These repukes have NOTHING & among non-whites O is leading in FL w/ 74% of the vote
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 11:46 PM
Oct 2012

Just a stat that sticks in my head.

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)
67. LOL And Mittwit is macho?
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 06:54 AM
Oct 2012

Are they trying to pretend lying equals macho? And since when is macho a good thing anyways?

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
73. He's too big of a coward to even mount that 7 brazillion dollar fancy pranc'n horse. Twinkle toes
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 09:28 AM
Oct 2012

is a pussy.

pinto

(106,886 posts)
78. LOL. Let's start with the DREAM Act. And talk about an inclusive American culture.
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 01:18 PM
Oct 2012

What a stretch. Ah geez.

ariesgem

(1,634 posts)
79. Ms. Perez says otherwise....
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 01:51 PM
Oct 2012

Rosie Perez Hits Mitt Romney On Latino Remarks

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