Mitt Romney Booed At NAACP Convention For Saying He’d Repeal Obamacare

Youtube ^ | 7/11/12 | romney

[Talkradio03]

Mitt Romney was booed today at the NAACP conference in Houston after he promised to repeal president Obama’s health care reform law.

“I’m going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find, that includes Obamacare, and I’m going to work to reform and save –” Romney said before being interrupted by boos for about 10 seconds. (Video)

[hitchwolf]

Whole lot of hiddeness (and sometimes not so well hidden) things on this thread.

[SumProVita]

Why do Republicans appear in front of the NAALCP? Why bother? I don’t see Libs speaking at the NRA or Heritage. So why do we need to pay them the lip service they don’t pay us?

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Because to do so demonstrates a higher standard. A good American should make the appeal to ALL the people with the hope of correctly informing and engendering more unity. Such a thing would never appeal to Obama, who, per Alinsky, continually seeks to divide.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I do give Romney credit for at least saying this in front of the audience he did. I have no faith that he’ll actually do it if elected, but he did stand up today.

[Mr. K]

WHY EVEN GO THERE?

STOP WITH THE POLITE BULL$H!T AND JUST WORK TO DEFEAT THEM

[Mr. K]

"It’s a good thing he didn’t mention EBT cards and not using them for lap dances."

But he should have... the louder he gets booed at NAALCPO the better for us.. show the pubnlic them booing it

[History Repeats]

“Why do Republicans appear in front of the NAALCP? Why bother? I don’t see Libs speaking at the NRA or Heritage. So why do we need to pay them the lip service they don’t pay us?”

Totally agree. All it does is give the liberal MSM something to use to make the GOP look out of touch with the “folks”.

[traditional1]

Blacks don't vote for Republicans, period.

They vote for PANDERING/WEALTH-REDISTRIBUTORS to keep them on the Plantation (as they have learned for 4 generations; it PAYS to be black, when someone will buy your Vote with Whitey's Money).

SEE TAGLINE

[Logical me]

Question: Does the majority of the NAACP members think? Or still, can they think?

[DanMiller]

Here’s a good article by Bryan Preston at PJ Tatler on Governor Romney’s address to the NAACP. He doubtless knew that his promise to get ObamaCare repealed would not go over well but he repeated it anyway, generally in the context of employment. His positions on education and the need for more employment (the Black unemployment rate is 14.4 percent) went over well.

Mitt Romney’s speech played surprisingly well with today’s audience, and may have helped him shed his unfortunate image as a panderer. It certainly raises an interesting question. Given Mitt Romney’s courage to address an audience he could expect to be hostile to his message, when will President Barack Obama show similar courage and clearly explain and defend his policies before, say, a school choice coalition convention or the Conference of Catholic Bishops?

Will Governor Romney get more Black votes than is generally anticipated? With the apparent unhappiness in sectors of the Black population -- even the more rabid sectors -- he well may; he certainly should.

[Grams A]

Because we are unafraid to speak the truth — anytime, anywhere and to anyone.”

Heartily agree. It may very well be the first time some of them have ever heard or been in a position to hear something else other than the MSM and/or BO’s talking points. If Romney can’t stand the heat in this kitchen then he has no business running for any office.

[magua]

MikEy_1962, I agree tribalism. It is a sickness. This does not end well.

[Logical me]

A great ad Romney should ask Pac to make is a video of the NAACP meeting with a empty podium and narrate listen to King Obama speaking to his black counterparts.

[cardinal4]

At least he said it and did not pander to the racist organization..

[NoGrayZone]

"when will President Barack Obama show similar courage"

Never.....none of us should hold our breath waiting for that to happen!

[Lionheartusa1]

,,,,,, THAT’S RACIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yashcheritsiy]

Because they are invited and telling your story and giving your opinion to people diametrically apposed to your philosophy may change one or two or maybe even several percentages of voters minds and that is enough to win the whole shebang.

No it's not.

Blacks make up ~12% of voters.

Let's say that Romney speech at the NAACP pursuaded 1% of these voters. Romney just gained 0.12% of the vote.

Let's say he pursuaded 5% - He just went up 0.6%.

Let's say he pursuaded an impossibly unlikely 10% of black voters to move away from Obama and to himself. He gains 1.2% of the total vote.

Meanwhile, if McCain in 2008 had improved his standing with white voters by a mere 5%, he would have handily defeated Obama. And doing that for a Republican would be grossly easier than appealing to large numbers of black voters, who by and large hold diametrically opposite positions (as Romney just found) on economic issues than Republicans.

No offence, but minority outreach is largely a waste of GOP dollars. Sure, if they want to pump a couple million into it just to keep up appearances, fine. But I wouldn't put a whole lot into that kitty, if I were them.

[pfflier]

I watched the speech on Fox. It's the first time I have observed him taking the risk of "telling it like it is" on repealing obummercare. He probably didn't get many converts but he certainly didn't alienate anyone either.

He got booed on that subject sure. He also got applause on comment alluding to several factors that keep blacks "on the plantation" (poverety, lousy education, lack of motivation to improve)

He got applause on his closing comments which were, interestingly very religious in nature.

All-in-all I thought it was a pretty good speech for him.

[Jim from C-Town]

You misunderstood what I said. I said he may persuade 1, 2, or several % points of UNDECIDED voters. Blacks have all either decided to vote for Obama or not. About 7% of the entire electorate is undecided. If he is scene as fearless enough to go to a hostile environment may make some undecideds brave enough to do the right thing and vote against Obama!

[chuckee]

The NAACP is the antithesis of conservative thought. The louder this crowd boos the candidate the more inclined I am to vote for him. Not a bad idea for a RINO to speak before the NAACP and have them boo him to make inroads with skeptical conservatives.Perhaps Romney’s staff should have handed the crowd tomatoes before the speech.

[Yashcheritsiy]

You misunderstood what I said. I said he may persuade 1, 2, or several % points of UNDECIDED voters. Blacks have all either decided to vote for Obama or not. About 7% of the entire electorate is undecided. If he is scene as fearless enough to go to a hostile environment may make some undecideds brave enough to do the right thing and vote against Obama!

Fair enough, and perhaps so.

Though, like Ace over at Ace of Spades HQ, I tend to think that undecideds aren't really undecided, but only think they are or say they are.