Mitt Romney's Advice to the GOP: Focus on Minority Voters

NBC News Meet The Press ^ | June 14, 2015 | Ed Demaria

[kenmcg]

“Mitt Romney’s Advice to the GOP: Focus on Minority Voters”

How many times have we heard this bull $%^t? The GOP keeps “whistlin’ in the wind.

[9YearLurker]

Yeah, but this is Romney’s third try and he just got soundly defeated as the nominee.

(And he’s a grasping, GOPe milquetoast.)

[DH]

“Mitt Romney’s Advice to the GOP: Focus on Minority Voters”

Just think, he was the GOPe wonder boy and the voters vomited and didn’t vote for someone who would screw them after he was in office.

Now, he shows his true colors and his advice is to “sell out” to the minorities for racial favors in return for a Republican president.

I have some advice for you Mr. Romney...GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR LIVES! Go to the Democrat party where you belong and take about 90% of the members of the GOP “good ole boys club” with you.

[Moorings]

Mitt Romney's Advice to the GOP: Focus on Minority Voters

Advice from a guy who lost in a year when it should have been hard to lose. He failed to paint Barry as a liberal epic fail, because he could not do so without having people talking about his own record.

Interestingly he is repeating a similar mantra to what he did in 2012. At that time he was asked in one of the interviews about how he was going to get the base to vote for him. His answer was that conservatives will have to vote for him because they did not have any other choice. To add insult to injury, they kicked conservatives to the curb during the republican convention.

The Romney strategy was that they were going to carry the independent / moderate vote and win in a landslide.

Here he is repeating a similar strategy. You have to be a moron to keep doing the same stupid thing and hope for a different result.

[arthurus]

Focus on minority voters who will, in any event, vote for the Democrat. Disdain conservative majority and lose elegantly. If Any of these fellows, Romney, any Bush, McCain, Dole, et al, wanted to actually contest the election they would be in the Democrat primaries.

[COBOL2Java]

Who is her loser? We have King Obama for a second term. Would Romney been worst than King Obama. Looks like to me that your opinion of the loser is miss guided.

Did you try running those sentences through a semantic analysis program? Yeesh.

1. "Who is her loser?" - Who is this "her" to whom you are referring?

2. "Would Romney been worst than King Obama."

   First, you are comparing two things, Romney and Obama, you cannot use "worst", because that is a superlative adjective, to be used for comparing multiple items. The adjective to use is "worse", not "worst". Worse is a comparative. Use it when comparing two things, just like "better" only in the negative instead of the positive. This means when comparing two things, one will always be “worse” and not “worst” than the other.

3. Next, "Would Romney been worst". That makes no sense. The proper grammar in this instance is the present perfect tense. The present perfect tense is used for repetitive or constant actions that began in the past and continue to the present. So, to properly ask the question, you would need to use the present perfect tense of the verb "be", which would be, of course, "have been".

4. Finally, you end a question with a period. Questions should properly be ended with, naturally, a question mark.

   Therefore, let's repair your sentence, shall we?

   Would Romney have been worse than King Obama?

5. "Looks like to me that your opinion of the loser is miss guided."

   "Looks like to me that"...[shudder]...let us just rephrase that..."Looks to me like" - and leave it at that.

6. "...your opinion of the loser is miss guided" - who is miss guided? Is she the "her" to whom you were referring in your first sentence? Oh! You meant the word "misguided". Nevermind...

   Perhaps I can take a stab at fixing this sentence:

   "Looks to me like your opinion of the loser is misguided."

[arthurus]

Romney didn’t lose. He prevented a conservative from being the nominee and possibly winning. He did his revered leaders a service. They won and therefore he won.

[Crucial]

Why would minorities want to vote for Republicans when they are recipients of free goverment benefits courtesy of Democrats, particularly in the face of inflated sense of oppression fed by the press?

[ansel12]

Don’t be so silly, as to compare Romney to Nixon and Reagan, that really shows incredible ignorance of them all.

[taxcontrol]

The base will sit at home as long as the GOPe keeps nominating a Dem-lite candidate (Mit). If the GOPe want the WHOLE party to show up, they need to get behind a candidate that the WHOLE party can support.

Dem-lite turns off the base. The money and enthusiasm dries up. Nominate a conservative and the base will turn out and even the broken glass republicans will man the phones, walk the neighborhoods, and do the thousands of other volunteer tasks that need to be done in order to win an election.

Elections are NOT won by winning the middle. There is no more “middle”. Elections are won by firing up and motivating the base.

[BobL]

“Mitt Romney’s Advice to the GOP: Focus on Minority Voters”

How’d that work for you, Mr. Romney?

We have MORE THAN ENOUGH white voters to win elections - all the Republicans have to do is give them something to vote for, as they did in the South, in 2014.

See my tag line and “About” page for details.

[kabar]

The GOP should focus more on the non-Hispanic white voter than minorities. Romney won that vote 59-39. A few more percentage points and he would have won the election.

[Williams]

Do you mean blacks vote as a racist block? Can’t be.

But evil whites don’t? Another impossibility.

[kabar]

Demography is destiny.

The non-Hispanic white population is projected to peak in 2024, at 199.6 million, up from 197.8 million in 2012. Unlike other race or ethnic groups, however, its population is projected to slowly decrease, falling by nearly 20.6 million from 2024 to 2060.

Meanwhile, the Hispanic population would more than double, from 53.3 million in 2012 to 128.8 million in 2060. Consequently, by the end of the period, nearly one in three U.S. residents would be Hispanic, up from about one in six today.

The black population is expected to increase from 41.2 million to 61.8 million over the same period. Its share of the total population would rise slightly, from 13.1 percent in 2012 to 14.7 percent in 2060.

The Asian population is projected to more than double, from 15.9 million in 2012 to 34.4 million in 2060, with its share of nation's total population climbing from 5.1 percent to 8.2 percent in the same period.

The U.S. is projected to become a majority-minority nation for the first time in 2043. While the non-Hispanic white population will remain the largest single group, no group will make up a majority.

<>b>All in all, minorities, now 37 percent of the U.S. population, are projected to comprise 57 percent of the population in 2060. (Minorities consist of all but the single-race, non-Hispanic white population.) The total minority population would more than double, from 116.2 million to 241.3 million over the period.

[donna]

How about mother, sister, daughter..., or your best friend’s girlfriend?

Men need to organize because they are the only minority that can actually cross racial lines and do something.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

It is not a good idea to take advice from losers. That said, I have long said we should be reaching out to conservative blacks. My husband had a hairdresser who is a black woman. She was convinced that Obama was pro-live and pro-traditional marriage. She believed what she wanted to believe. She was a church going conservative and should have been a republican. I don’t know if she has figured out the truth about Obama yet, or if she cares (my husband died 3 years ago so I do not hear stories about her anymore). But there are many conservative blacks out there who should be Republicans. They are not all like Michelle and Barak and Al, and Jessie.

[dfwgator]

Go away, Mitt.

[JohnT416]

Right on Target 2ndDivisionVet. Thank you for your Service.

[Dave W]

I have a feeling, he didn’t hear you.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The grain of truth is that we should not assume minorities can’t think like conservatives. The mistake would be to assume that appealing to minorities means outselling the democrats with tax dollar goodies and low-life morals for minorities. That is not the way to appeal to them. Democrats will always win there. We need to convince them that conservative principles are in their best interest. Reaching out just means going where they go and making sure they hear the message and know they are welcome.