Racist Romney Campaign Banner

Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:43 pm by Bob Cesca

I don’t know for sure whether it was intentional, but Romney appeared on stage in front of this official campaign banner:

See, there’s a very racist stereotype about black people being “lazy and shiftless,” and another one that has to do with “welfare queens” who don’t want to work. So when you create a disgusting slogan like this one, it serves as a dog-whistle, stoking white racist anger while also offending every black person in the country.

Yeah, it was probably intentional. The Republican Party’s use of the Southern Strategy is well-documented and verified by actual Republican leaders.

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  • muselet

    Ed Kilgore had much the same reaction to the Mediaite piece yesterday.

    It may have been Kevin Drum (I’m too lazy to try to find out right now) who expressed puzzlement a couple of months ago when the Romney campaign’s rolled out the old Tory slogan. “Labour Isn’t Working” was at least a semi-clever bit of wordplay, while “Obama Isn’t Working” makes no objective sense. Or wouldn’t, were it not for this:

    [Mediaite columnist Tommy] Christopher’s suspicions are buttressed by the recent efforts of the Romney campaign and its candidate to attack Obama for “elaborate vacations” and golf outings.

    So, yeah, it seems the Romney campaign is going for the “lazy and shiftless” subtext.

    “Shameless” seems such a mild word for what the Rs are doing.

    –alopecia

  • ebaker6375

    I don’t know about racist but to me it highlights the fact that Romney hasn’t actually held a job in quite a number of years.

  • villemar

    And then there’s Bachmann accusing Obama of “waving a tar baby in the air.” http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/148148675.html

    What odious pieces of shit these snarling jackals are.