With loss and demographic changes come changes in immutable philosophies and natural law. The Party of the "Obama Phone" and ignoring the 47% awakens, in an open, dewy field, refreshed, brand-new:
Romney advisor Carlos Gutierrez on 'State of the Union' this morning:
Crowley:? "You know what Mitt Romney has said...He was talking to group of donors and talking about the Obama campaign. He said that that 'he (Obama) went out and gave a lot of stuff to people that he hoped would go out and motivate them, specifically the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people, he's talking here about the President's efforts to help those youngsters to who came in with undocumented parents. What do you make of that kind of argument?"
Gutierrez: (The 'Casablanca' reference too obvious to even be acknowledged in his tone): "I was shocked. I was shocked, and, frankly I don't think that's why the Republicans lost the election, why we lost the election. I think we lost the election because the far Right of this Party took us to a place where it doesn't belong. "
"We are the Party of prosperity, of growth, of tolerance! These immigrants who come across, and what they do wrong is they risk their lives, and they work because they want to be part of the American dream. That is what the GOP is!"
Crowley (slightly haltingly, embarrassed at having to phrase with delicacy the obvious): "And you would admit that your candidate said things that were anti-Latino, you yourself said that they (speeding up with emphasis at the sheer undeniability of it) feared the Republican Party and he was the head of it."
Gutierrez: (Over her): "Yeah..."
Crowley: "He failed at that."
Gutierrez: "And...and..that's true, and the unfortunate part, we were just talking about this, I don't know if he understood that he was saying something that was insulting."
Gutierrez is not to blame here, trying to grasp the sides of a gigantic, crumbling hole that Romney has dug (though he may be at fault for climbing in it with him).
The Kinsleyian definition of a political gaffe--telling the truth--has unmistakeably, unavoidably begun--that Romney likely didn't know that he was saying something insulting, so completely a part of his worldview is the notion of that 47% of the nation as stereotypical takers that Romney felt no hesitation or doubt in declaiming it, so clear were his attempts to hide his condescension his willingness to say anything to a group of people whose judgment he held in contempt, and simply felt that he--always the projection--needed to sell some idea, any idea, to win, to traverse the hurdle of their hungry taking ignorance so that he could put the ideas that they could never grasp into effect.
He didn't know. He didn't know, and doesn't know, despite having intermingled with them by necessity for many months--them.
The remarkable degree of distance--hardened as a personality style, unamenable to actual change throughout the long campaign--shows us with increasing clarity the danger to this nation that we avoided.
Now, as the Republican Party rushes to change the Potemkin storefront,? racing back to cover the rampant, overgrown tangle of efforts to debase, tarnish and diminish; of whipping up the base with the most extreme onslaughts--conspiratorial, false, the various manifestations and insinuations of the paranoid style--now, they wish to bring them back--to reality.
I would suggest that they do so gradually. I suspect that not all will come willingly. And I believe that what we will be left with is a facade--a smiling face with sharpened teeth, a more seductive pitch to lure the 47%, so blindly, clumsily handled, as if alien, by Romney, to the same place.?
Be ready.
Source: http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2012/11/hilarity-ensues.html
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