GOP Primary Megathread!

[garbon]

Because that makes sense.

[Razgovory]

I suppose this would be like Obama talking about his "British" roots.  Since his father was born in the British Empire.  I don't recall Obama emphasizing that.

[Phillip V]

I suppose this would be like Obama talking about his "British" roots.  Since his father was born in the British Empire.  I don't recall Obama emphasizing that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43132359/ns/politics-white_house/t/obama-ireland-ive-come-home/#.T2QcEeSdySo

[garbon]

I suppose this would be like Obama talking about his "British" roots.  Since his father was born in the British Empire.  I don't recall Obama emphasizing that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43132359/ns/politics-white_house/t/obama-ireland-ive-come-home/#.T2QcEeSdySo

Come on now.  You're not even trying.

[FunkMonk]

Mitt Romney is actually a Mexican. I think I've heard it all now this election cycle.

[Ideologue]

Jesus PV, not at all comparable.

Obama you know actually has "white" lineage.
Romney has a dad born in Chiuahahua to two parents from Utah and was back in USA before he turned six.

Sure he has bunch of cousins living over there in Mormon insulated enclaves, but Mitt sure as shit knows he has nothing to stand on in regards to claiming to be Mexican.

Most Latinos consider themselves white.

What exactly would you say your definition of Latino is?

Those who are the product of admixture of Spanish with Native American peoples (also, maybe and/or African slaves).  E.g., katmai.

Versus Hispanic which just means tracing descent from inhabitants of post-Roman Hispania.  E.g., me.

[Phillip V]

Romney's father and grandfather had to flee to the United States from Mexico as war refugees. They are Mexican-American heroes.

AP video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNYq5aKba8o

[Razgovory]

I suppose this would be like Obama talking about his "British" roots.  Since his father was born in the British Empire.  I don't recall Obama emphasizing that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43132359/ns/politics-white_house/t/obama-ireland-ive-come-home/#.T2QcEeSdySo

[Phillip V]

'Nearly three weeks after an unarmed teenager was killed in a small city north of Orlando, stirring an outcry, a few indisputable facts remain: the teenager, who was black, was carrying nothing but a bag of Skittles, some money and a can of iced tea when he was shot. The neighborhood crime watch volunteer who got out of his car and shot him is white and Hispanic. He has not been arrested and is claiming self-defense.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/us/justice-department-investigation-is-sought-in-florida-teenagers-shooting-death.html

[Razgovory]

'Nearly three weeks after an unarmed teenager was killed in a small city north of Orlando, stirring an outcry, a few indisputable facts remain: the teenager, who was black, was carrying nothing but a bag of Skittles, some money and a can of iced tea when he was shot. The neighborhood crime watch volunteer who got out of his car and shot him is white and Hispanic. He has not been arrested and is claiming self-defense.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/us/justice-department-investigation-is-sought-in-florida-teenagers-shooting-death.html

That is interesting, but why post it here?

[Tonitrus]

So if Latino was one of those mutable concepts we call races, then they wouldn't be able to?

If Hitler and Eva Braun had a child in Africa, it would not be black. If they had one in China, it would not be yellow. If they had one in Argentina, it could potentially be Latino.

How about African, Asian, and South American? 

[Phillip V]

'Republican voters who prefer Newt Gingrich for the party's 2012 presidential nomination are as likely to name Mitt Romney as their second choice as they are to name Rick Santorum, suggesting the race would not tilt in Santorum's favor if Gingrich dropped out.'

http://www.gallup.com/poll/153308/Romney-Santorum-Tie-Gingrich-Voters-Second-Choice.aspx

[Sheilbh]

One thing I don't get with the Romney-Chihuahua connection is why it was never an issue whether George Romney was a natural born citizen.  I know McCain was born in Panama but that was on a military base, I think, and his father was serving at the time - which seems a fair excuse.  But that's also different from Romney, but so far as I know, despite running against Nixon, no-one made an issue of it.

[Viking]

Sorry Rick but women don't even feature in my porn, so why would it encourage people to be violent towards women?

Just glad to know violence against women and misogyny was so much lower back before internet porn.

I too was baffled when he claimed that contraception leads to unwanted pregnancies.

[katmai]

Jesus PV, not at all comparable.

Obama you know actually has "white" lineage.
Romney has a dad born in Chiuahahua to two parents from Utah and was back in USA before he turned six.

Sure he has bunch of cousins living over there in Mormon insulated enclaves, but Mitt sure as shit knows he has nothing to stand on in regards to claiming to be Mexican.

So if Hitler had escaped to Argentina, his children cannot claim to be latino? 

If Hitler and Eva had made it to Argentina, had a kid who at age five moved back to Germany or Austria, who then had a son born there to a German mother, no It would be safe to say he couldn't go around claiming to be Latino.