OH MY GOSH!!!! He must have! There is no other explanation for the difference in his color! He wasn't kidding when he said he believes if he was Latino he'd have a better chance of being elected!!!! (Watch the video below) In the pic below look at the color of his face, compare it to the color of his hands! From Democratic Underground, the LA Weekly, the Daily Agenda and Mother Jones......
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If you thought
Mitt Romney's week couldn't get any worse, it just did.
The blog
Democratic Underground
seems to have called it first: The Republican candidate appears to have
gotten darker in only a day's time. Fine, you say, he has property on
the beach right here in Southern California. It happens.
Yeah, but this particular coincidence coincided with ...
... a "candidate forum" talk with Univision, aimed at Latino voters.
Some bloggers have pointed out that he wasn't so melanin-enriched
just a day before yesterday's forum in Miami. Here's a photo of him
during a campaign stop Monday in Southern California. You be the judge.
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Meanwhile, if you don't think the Romney is quite dumb enough to go
brownface for so-called brown voters, consider the other gaffes of the
week, including his famous remark that nearly half the country is
comprised of moochers who are meaningless to his campaign
and the assertion that he would win outright if he was Latino by blood.
It's an interesting point, seeing that his father was born in Mexico, which would make papa ... Mexican.
You see, despite our occasional brownness, Latinos do not comprise a
race and can come in an array of tanning-bed hues. Latin America has
people with African and European heritage and everything in between.
(Mexican actress Selma Hayek is of Lebanese descent; baseball legend Ted
Williams, seemingly "white," was half-Mexican).
Romney, of course, knows that. It's in his family history.
To be fair, old rich gringos like to get tans.
And the candidate
was in Miami. You can get thong-tan lines just thinking about Miami.
Not all Latinos are aghast at Romney's sudden dash to the dark side, by the way. The website
Pocho.com has come up with several possible reasons for the epidermal enrichment, including:
Fell face-first into Snooki.
So there. Give the guy a break.
DID ROMNNEY DYE HIS FACE BROWN TO APPEAL TO HISPANIC VOTERS?
Check out the photo from the Univision interview above and this photo from a campaign stop the following day.
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."
Romney spent much of the primary season broadcasting a harsh stance
on immigration, famously suggesting that he'd make life so unbearable
for those in the U.S. without papers that they would "self-deport." Then
he
moved gingerly to the center once he had clinched his party's nomination, mindful of Latinos' increasingly large slice of the electorate.
"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."
Romney's line got laughs, perhaps because his audience was aware that
he could indeed use all the help he can get with Latinos. President Barack Obama is walloping him by a nearly 40 percent margin in polls of the group.
Romney is not Mexican, but his ancestors were white Americans who moved to Mexico
when the state of Utah banned polygamy.
Romney's son, Craig, cut a Spanish-language radio ad in August making a
point similar to the one that his father did at the fundraiser. "My
grandfather George was born in Mexico,"
Craig noted, leaving out the reason why.
Romney
addressed
the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Monday in an effort to blunt
Obama's advantage among Latinos. In his considerably more serious
remarks at that event, he claimed the president's policies have
effectively sent Latinos into poverty, and that Obama has failed to
"fix" immigration as he promised.
Efforts at improving Romney's standing among Latinos based on
personal appeals to his Mexican family history will likely go only so
far. Latino support for the president's reelection is based in part on
a specific administration policy: Obama's decision to grant immunity from deportation for many young undocumented immigrants.
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