Remember last week when Barack Obama was job-murdering all of the ladies as part of his Kill The Women, Let Muslim Jesus Sort Them Out war? Remember How he sent ninja lesbian Hilary Rosen after Ann Romney for just sitting around the house all day eating bonbons, listening to Sheena Easton’s “Morning Train” and pooping out man-babies for her big handsome working man? (Undignified!) Remember that?
If nothing else, Romney was on message in Hartford. The focus was the performance of the economy under President Obama and how it has impacted women. During a carefully staged, 20-minute event, that was his sole topic.
“I was disappointed in listening to the president as he’s saying, ‘Oh, the Republicans are waging a war on women.’ The real war on women is being waged by the president’s failed economic policies,” Romney said.
Women account for 92.3 percent of the jobs lost during the Obama administration, Romney said, holding a mini-poster labeled, “Women and the Obama Economy.”
“Now the president says, ‘Oh, I didn’t cause this recession.’ That’s true. He just made it worse and made it last longer. And because it lasted longer, more and more women lost jobs.”
Romney wore a dark suit, though he slipped off his coat and rolled up the sleeves of his starched white shirt before grabbing a cordless microphone in front of an all-female human backdrop at AlphaGraphic, a female-owned printing franchise. The few men who took a place on the risers disappeared before Romney made his entrance.
Yeah, well that was last week, so … BO-ring. Whataya got this week, delightfully named Reince Priebus? Oh, Mexicans are now the worstest off under el Señor Presidente Barack-o Obama-o:
Mitt Romney and the GOP are suffering from a major gap in the polls with Hispanic voters, who are the fastest-growing part of the electorate. Romney said at a private fundraiser this weekend that those poll numbers “spell doom for us” and needed to be improved.
Priebus admitted that the GOP couldn’t win without improving those numbers, and said they’d do it by arguing Obama “can’t be trusted” to follow through on campaign promises ranging from immigration reform to the DREAM Act to the economy.
“Latinos have been bearing the brunt of the Obama economy,” said Priebus, who also described Obama’s efforts on the DREAM Act and immigration reform as a “goose egg.”
Obviously Mitt Romney is having second thoughts about that whole “self-deportation” thing. (Imagine Ann Romney hollering into an empty 12,000 square foot beach mansion: “Consuela! ¿Dónde está mama’s María la Sangrienta? Consuela…?”)
Needless to say, this is good news for John McCain Salma Hayek….





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Mitt has the asshole vote all tied up, though.
This is just more evidence Rmoney is looking for a hispanic VP or someone that poll tests well with them! They pretty much say just that when you read between the lines. Seeing as how they also need the female vote a female hispanic would be perfect. There are a few of them around who can managed to stand on stage without embarassing themselves constantly…..I think.
This is classic GOPer think. This is why McCain went with Palin to get female votes. They figure just cut and paste and the rest will take care of itself. No need to actually start being honest and dealing with facts rather than total made up bs.
Or he’ll just start talking about how his father was from Mexico.
Salma Hayek? And no photo?
That is so not cool, hombre.
I always called my maid Consuela, even though he was an Italian guy from Philly named Frank. It just fit.
All those women at Alpha Graphics have dignity, the kind that comes from work. So like Ann Romney, whose impeccable dinner parties were an integral part of Mitt’s success in the Business Chop Shop business.
Is Consuela a Mexican from Mexico? Or is she a Mexican from Guatemala?
That’s exactly what I was thinking until the auto-generated advert caught my eye….
Priebus [...] described Obama’s efforts on the DREAM Act and immigration reform as a “goose egg.”
Pretty much, though there may have been certain Congresses dominated by screaming members of a certain brown-folks-hating Party involved.
Right. They’ve never heard the general “Meskins suck!” tone of Republican commentary, much less state law. They’ve never heard about that new law in Georgia?
Romney – General Santa Ana 2012!
Ooh, you’re quick-on-the-draw Hat (may I call you Hat?)!
6:54 beats my 6:55!
Or he could just change his name to Zorromney.
Their Campaign slogan can be …
“Remember the Alamo” they should test it first in Texas, see how it flies.
Then Santa Ana can explain his anti-immigration policy on the Campaign Trail, Republicans always like “Anti-Immigration Candidates.
With Romney’s excellent political instincts, I’m surprised he hasn’t already thought of it himself.
This is classic GOPer think. This is why McCain went with Palin to get female votes. They figure just cut and paste and the rest will take care of itself.
They assume everyone is as rabidly tribal as they are. Put someone from their tribe in the VP slot, they “reason”, no matter how much of an empty suit or token gesture, and they’ll line up like sheep.
So when the GOP talks about getting a Hispanic on the ticket, they are admitting they are all for affirmative action and raced based hiring, as long as it helps them.
I am shocked.
It worked with Clarence Thomas.
There can’t possibly be a Mexican Sarah Palin, can there?
I think those water stains that have Jesus’ face in them would prevent that (not unlike how Palins apparently think they prevent pregnancy).
~ Harry R. Sohl
delightfully named Reince Priebus
Dan Savage made Rick Santorum’s name into a synonym for a sexual discharge, but Reince Priebus already sounds like the name of a sexual discharge.
Well played at 6:55. You were an inspiration.
Yes, I thought at first perhaps a ticket of Romney/Pancho Villa 2012, but Villa’s penchant for taking hacienda lands and redistributing it to peasants and soldiers would prove a little too socialist for Lord Romney. Santa Ana’s ability to play all sides of the fence many times over to take and re-take political power, breaking every promise he made to both Mexicans and foreign leaders alike along the way, would resonate more with Mittens.
Romney choosing Marco Rubio will just be a double-downing of his cluelessness. Rubio is Cuban – a minority of a minority. Most Hispanics in this ocuntry are of Mexican or Puerto Rican descent. They don’t care about Cubans, and they don’t see Cuban as similar to them…since they don’t generally think of themselves as “Hispanic” or “Latino”, but as Mexican, Guatemalan, Peruvian, etc. Rubio will be no help at all with my 3rd-generation Mexican in-laws, quite the contrary.
Exactomundo. Rubio wouldn’t take it anyway. He’s got his eye on 2016 and while the GOP has it’s collective fingers crossed for Mitt, running against an incumbent (even a dusky-hued one) probably won’t end well for Mitt’s candidacy. Rubio needs a couple more years to hone his image and create a media narrative. And failed VP candidates don’t often get a second chance.
I think Mitt has to chose a woman, anyway. It’s the one sure way to show that there is no Republican War on Women (I hate that fucking phrase).
Romney/Brewer anyone?
Brewer doesn’t have the right appeal to the average Male Wingnut whose Social/Psychological development halted somewhere around the age of 15.
They won’t find her quite as “stimulating” as they did Sarah Palin with her Naughty Librarian Look (hat tip to Tbogg).
Oh yeah, I forgot the fap factor.
Romney/Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley
For shame. No O’Donnell? Or is that NO’Donnell?
Composition of the 111th Congress from 2009-2011 (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774721.html)
U.S. Senate:
57 Democrats + Bernie Sanders (S) and Joe Lieberman (I) = 59
versus
41 Republicans
(2) Vacancies
U.S. House:
256 Democrats
versus
178 Republicans
Is this the Congress dominated by brown-skinned hating folks that Obama had for two years and, thus, couldn’t pass Immigration “Reform”?
Maybe Obama tried to pass it but it got filibustered in the senate ecause they didn’t have that 60th Senator? Nope. Never even tried. Pesky facts.
But didja know that General Santa Anna introduced chicle to inventor Thomas Adams and suggested he find a way to use it for chewing on? So if you’re a Texan and you chew gum, you’re popping bubbles with Hitler!