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‘You Make Wonderbread Look Like Pumpernickel’: Leftists Release Racist, Anti-Mormon Romney Smear Video

Since former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney became the presumptive GOP nominee, the Left has auditioned a number of attack lines against him, trying to make an issue out of everything imaginable. However, that attempt to create smears didn’t really kick into high gear until Romney made it clear that he plans to speak to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a move that apparently threatens the Left because being willing to talk to black people is somehow racist. Or something.

In any case, suddenly the attack line against Romney from the Left has become extremely clear. Unimaginatively enough, they’re branding him as a racist, and have thus narrowed their potential field of reasons for this charge to the following:

1. That Romney is a Mormon, and that’s terrible because the Mormon church used to be racist.

2. That Romney is part of a party that supports supposedly racist ideas like making sure someone is who they say they are when they vote.

3. That Romney’s fellow Republicans have said supposedly racist things about President Obama.

4. That Republicans unconnected to Romney have said inflammatory things about race.

5. Romney is really, really white. What this means is anyone’s guess.

You don’t have to take our word for it – tune into Martin Bashir or Lawrence O‘Donnell or Ed Schultz on any given day and you’ll probably hear at least one of these ideas brought up.

But what if you want to hear all of them? For that you will need to turn to a little organization called The Message, which put out this thoroughly curious video today:

And who is The Message? The Washington Examiner explains:

According to a news release, The Message said it plans to use videos to “say things that Democrats are afraid to say, connect with young voters-many of whom are alienated by today’s political climate, and give smart and insightful voices an opportunity to contribute to the debate.”

The group is directed by Razor & Tie co-founder Cliff Chenfeld, former Media Matters for America president Eric Burns, former AOL chief creative officer and co-founder of theknot.com Michael Wolfson, and former New York Times journalist Andrew Zipern. “The Message’s unique mix of entertainment experience, political and messaging savvy, online creativity and distribution expertise, and a journalist’s eye makes it the platform Democrats and progressives need to lift their voices above the Republicans and have a cultural conversation that molds this election cycle and beyond,” added the release.

If this is what these people consider “smart and insightful voices,” we’ll take our chances with the dumb and obtuse ones.

The video itself is difficult to refute, simply by virtue of the fact that it makes a series of charges that are not explained with anything approaching enough clarity to argue back. Before attempting something like a refutation, though, we have to note a few things that make it look ridiculous right out the gate. Firstly, no candidate has ever had advisers who talk like this. Yes, advisers in a campaign setting can anticipate attacks, but usually they don’t look like they believe them, and more to the point, there’s usually some sort of focus grouping involved surrounding issues, not just rampant speculation about what a particular demographic thinks or doesn’t think. The effort to portray Romney and his advisers as out of touch falls short precisely because its lack of subtlety makes it impossible to believe.

Moreover, the real irony here is that you have a bunch of white liberals (albeit liberals pretending to be Republicans) talking about issues that they think blacks care about. Now, if the video wanted to depict these Republican advisers as out of touch, surely it would have them bring up irrelevant points. But no, the video treats their invented “black concerns” as accurate, which means the people behind it expect us to believe that a series of advisers to the Republican nominee for President of the United States can represent the concerns of black voters accurately. This is going to come back to bite the people behind this when you actually look at the claims in the video.

Claim #1: The Mormon Church was racist in the 70′s, when Romney was a member, and he didn’t seem to care that much.

The attack on the Mormon Church for its withholding of religious honors from blacks right up through the late 70′s (when Romney was a member) would be touchy under almost any circumstances. However, Romney has already disowned, point blank, some of the ideas that motivated the ban, in far sharper language than President Obama ever employed regarding, say, Jeremiah Wright.  Moreover, the Mormon Church’s racial history is far more complicated than a disingenuous five minute attack video can possibly represent. Consider this quote from a lengthy article on the subject:

It is significant, I believe, that in spite of the many discussions of blacks and slavery that had been published by 1836, no reference had been made to the priesthood. Yet, while there was not a written policy on blacks and the priesthood, a precedent had been established. Shortly before publication of the articles on abolitionism, a Negro was ordained to the Melchizedek priesthood. It has been suggested, considerably after the fact, that this was a mistake which was quickly rectified. Such a claim is totally unfounded and was actually refuted by Joseph F. Smith shortly after being put forth.29 Elijah Abel was ordained an elder 3 March, 1836, and shortly thereafter received his patriarchal blessing from Joseph Smith, Sr.30 In June he was listed among the recently licensed elders31 and on 20 December, 1836, was ordained a seventy.32 Three years later, in June 1839, he was still active in the Nauvoo Seventies Quorum,33 and his seventy’s certificate was renewed in 1841, and again after his arrival in Salt Lake City.34 Moreover, Abel was known by Joseph Smith and reportedly lived for a time in the Prophet’s home.35

Finally, even if you concede that Romney had been a member of a racist church (which we don’t), then a consistent application of this attack must also disqualify Democratic Senator Harry Reid from public service, who is 8 years older than Romney and has held Mormon religious views for at least as long. Is Reid a racist? We don‘t think the question worthy of dignifying any more than it should be in Romney’s case.

Claim #2: Republican concerns over voter fraud have no evidence behind them, and are just an excuse to disenfranchise young people and blacks

The first part of this argument is abject nonsense. The evidence that voter fraud exists and happens is overwhelming – so overwhelming that former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens cited it in a 2008 decision upholding Voter ID laws as constitutional. Stevens, it should be noted, was one of the Court’s liberals, which makes the next point even more interesting. Not only did Stevens claim there was evidence that voter fraud is a real phenomenon (albeit one that voter ID laws cannot solve single-handedly), but he also pointed out that the evidence that voter ID laws disenfranchised voters was either unreliable or nonexistent:

But on the basis of the evidence in the record it is not possible to quantify either the magnitude of the burden on this narrow class of voters or the portion of the burden imposed on them that is fully justified.

First, the evidence in the record does not provide us with the number of registered voters without photo identification; Judge Barker found petitioners’ expert’s report to be “utterly incredible and unreliable.” 458 F. Supp. 2d, at 803. Much of the argument about the numbers of such voters comes from extrarecord, postjudgment studies, the accuracy of which has not been tested in the trial court.

Further, the deposition evidence presented in the District Court does not provide any concrete evidence of the burden imposed on voters who currently lack photo identification. The record includes depositions of two case managers at a day shelter for homeless persons and the depositions of members of the plaintiff organizations, none of whom expressed a personal inability to vote under SEA 483. A deposition from a named plaintiff describes the difficulty the elderly woman had in obtaining an identification card, although her testimony indicated that she intended to return to the BMV since she had recently obtained her birth certificate and that she was able to pay the birth certificate fee. App. 94.

An important note should be made here, by the way – the original court challenge to Voter ID laws claimed that they would disenfranchise elderly people, not young people. This suspicious switch is not addressed in the video. However, we are glad to hear that the Left admits there is no evidence of voter fraud, and that disenfranchising elderly voters is a bad thing. Apparently, George W. Bush’s election to the Presidency was legitimate after all.

Claim #3: Romney’s surrogates/supporters have said racist things.

February 25, 2008:

Farrakhan, 74, the longtime leader of the Nation of Islam, said the war in Iraq, the nation’s faltering economy and the increased number of natural disasters were signs of “a nation in peril.” He said those problems provide the broader context for Obama’s rise.

The Message Puts Out Racially Motivated Attack on Mitt Romney for Policy, Religion
The Message Puts Out Racially Motivated Attack on Mitt Romney for Policy, Religion

“We are witnessing the phenomenal rise of a man of color in a country that has persecuted us because of our color,” Farrakhan told the crowd of nearly 20,000 gathered at McCormick Place.

“If you look at Barack Obama’s [diverse] audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed from what they were,” he said. “This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better.”

March 13, 2008:

 

June 21, 2012:

The Message Puts Out Racially Motivated Attack on Mitt Romney for Policy, Religion

Sorry, we can’t hear your (false) charges over the sound of this.

Claim #4: “You’re so white you make wonderbread look like pumpernickel.”

You got us. Romney is white. If you don’t want to vote for him for that reason, fine. It’s not like the Left has a history getting egg on their faces for attacking people for being too white to appeal to black voters or or anyth–

The Message Puts Out Racially Motivated Attack on Mitt Romney for Policy, ReligionThe Message Puts Out Racially Motivated Attack on Mitt Romney for Policy, Religion

Huh. Well, then why is Romney’s color relevant to his Presidential potential then?

Oh, that’s right, it isn’t.

Comments (58)

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  • FEMALL
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:22pm

    1. Mormons were abolitionists. Other than poligymy (at the time) why do you think they were murdered and burned out of Missouri–a slave state?
    2. Tell that to all the non-citizen registered Democrat voters ineligible for jury duty in Florida. How do you think the whole Florida voter roll “purge” got started?
    3. Anything said today is twisted into racist meaning simply by applying Al Sharpton’s test of “code”.

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    • uisignorant
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 4:23pm

      I wish I had the code book, because I often don’t get it.

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  • redgypsy
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:16pm

    What an astonishingly ridiculous video!!!
    Is it really for real????!!!!
    (rhetorical question–it’s just hard to believe anybody would put together this…..this….hash of mush and expect it to be taken even semi-seriously)

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  • chips1
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:10pm

    Just think. This all started with a hyphen.

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  • edmundburk
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:06pm

    This is the lowest,dirtiest, trick that the progressives have ever tried. can‘t say i’m surprised, unfortunaly,
    I think there are enough stupid people to believe it. And I don’t even like Romney.

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  • tothepoint
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:05pm

    The ignorance and hypocrisy of the lefty Dems is legendary.

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  • KangarooJack
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:58pm

    {sigh} ACTUAL History is not even read. It isn’t even dusty anymore…the Foundations of the Republican Party have been lost to the re-writing of History Books…{sigh}

    Report Post » KangarooJack  
  • Just in time
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:56pm

    So, racist bad and religious bigotry good. How lame.

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  • cassandra
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:43pm

    maybe someone should tell the black people that the democratic party is the party that wanted to keep them slaves, they are the party of the Jim Crow Laws , they are the party of the KKK they are the party of lynching, they are the party that was against blacks going to white colleges, they are the party of the Teachers Unions that DO NOT TEACH your children, Abraham Lincoln was a REBUBLICAN, Frederick Douglas was a REPUBLICAN, Martin Luther King was a REPUBLICAN, after the civil was all The blacks that became teachers,Judges,Representatives,Politicians were all REPUBLICANS and the democrates were the party that put a stop to it with their Suppression, it wasn’t until they realized they were losing that they came up with the idea to make them slaves of the system,DUMB them down with HANDOUTS,WELLFARE, and start to teach them to blame someone else if don’t have anything, it was a Democrat President W.Wilson that was a big RACIST Blacks need to read America in Black and White by David Barton and learn the TRUTH about who the democrates really are DECEIVERS

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    • joel228
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 1:40am

      And who can forget democrat senator Robert Byrd? He was a KKK Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops. He recruited for the KKK yet never received the treatment they are giving Mitt Romney.

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  • Shiroi Raion
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:41pm

    Still not a peep out of Harry Reid? He‘s okay with his own people bashing his religion because it’s for political purposes? I’d like to hear what he thinks.
    …And their okay with Jeremiah Wright, but Mormonism is bad for some reason? FYI for the trolls. I‘ve seen some idiotic trolls say they’re not going to vote for a Mormon because they want a Christian. Mormons are Christians, numbnuts.
    They point out Romney’s grandfather or great-grandfather was a polygamist, but they‘re perfectly okay with Obama’s father being a polygamist because…? because he was an anti-American Communist? Because they’re afraid to disagree with him for fear of being labeled racist? I’m not afraid. I can’t think of anything in which I agree with him.
    Taxing the rich? Who do you think will actually pay those taxes? They will just pass their losses onto us via more job loss, lower wages, and higher prices… and then the Demoncrats will just want MORE MORE MORE taxes! They always do.

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    • Fuddy_Duddy
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:23pm

      Couldn’t say it any better

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    • sbenard
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:56pm

      Harry Reid is the tare amongst the Mormon wheat. That’s why he opposes every policy of the Church, subverting and sabotaging its efforts in every way possible.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:36pm

    Barney Frank makes his Wonderstick Look Like Pumpernickel too…..

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  • LibertyGoddess
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:27pm

    Here’s a few racist facts for you:

    1. It was the Republicans that brought about the civil rights movement.
    2. MLK was a Republican.
    3. At the turn of the century, over 4 million Evangelicals were registered with the KKK. Withholding the priesthood pales in comparison to burning people on crosses.
    4. The Southern Baptist Convention voted in their first black president in 2012, yet Mormons are still considered racists.
    5. The most segregated churches today are Evangelical and Protestant. Mormons have never had segregated wards. They have two temples now in Africa. They have the largest welfare system in place around the world and use Catholic Charities and the Red Cross for distribution points.
    6. If Mormons are good enough to get a college education, raise righteous children, serve in the military, die in a foreign war, serve the community, make political donations, fight for our liberties and freedoms, then by golly, they are good enough to run for president.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:36pm

      so about Dingy HARRY REID?
      He’s a Mormon and a Democrat.
      These lefty kooks need more koolaid.
      OMG 2012

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    • Patriot Z
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:47pm

      heck even for the sake of argument the first ones were 100% correct, the last one proves that libs are just as racist if not more and completly open about their racism. libs are about power and control and if i have to choose a racist that works for me or a racist that works against me, guess who ima choosin? go on…guess…!

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    • usedCZARsalesman
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:48pm

      LIBERTY…stop it, you are confusing the libs with facts. Reality is all relative, man…

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  • Justusforall
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:26pm

    The Message is… DEVIDE AND CONQUER!!

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  • lillymckim
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:23pm

    They have over played their hand and it will back fire.

    Nothing speaks louder than 14.4 percent unemployment under Obama among African-Americans.
    While many cities have much higher rates like Detroit 18.1% and in Chicago as high as 19.1%.

    Obama and his administration says

    “words”

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    • Shasta
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:58pm

      I agree, but apparently he has the black vote so locked up that he isn’t even going to bother pandering to them at the NAACP convention.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:27pm

      Right on Shasta Obama is using stand in‘s like Joe Biden for the confrontational conventions like the NAACP convention and used Holder for La Raza when unemployment can’t be explained away like at a press conference where no one is allowed to ask questions.

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:19pm

    It takes a big toilet to fit all those lefties in. The lid should be nailed shut after flushing so they quit diving in.

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  • SHOWMESTATEGUY
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:15pm

    Dem lib’s are haters and lie. Simple as that. They show their hate and tell their lies on the msm everyday. I used to ignore it, but can’t any longer. Democrats and their leaders lie and hate.

    They are out to destroy America anyway they can.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:13pm

    most folks i talked to are voting Romney simple because hes white and Obama is black, the good ol south. Its funny they can‘t even tell me how he is different or won’t refute when i say hes no different.

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    • SHOWMESTATEGUY
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:24pm

      I guess you haven’t been talking to any black people have yoiu. I have and they me the only reason they be votin for BO is because he be black.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:32pm

      @INDIVIDUALISM

      I don’t hate Obama because he is black.

      I hate him because he is red.

      **From a sign on a fence in Panama City, FL

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    • woodyee
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:39pm

      Obviously you run in a circle of Racists – you must be a Leftist / Lib.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:42pm

      @brother_ed

      What’s Black and White and Red all over? Obama….

      Report Post » The-Monk  
    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:46pm

      Not surprisingly, INDIV, you mostly talk to imbeciles. (Or you are simply a liar).

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:07pm

      @THE- MONK

      Good one!

      I had to wonder for a second if I was racist because I giggled. But only for a second.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:18pm

      @Individualism
      “Its funny they can‘t even tell me how he is different or won’t refute when i say hes no different.”

      I don’t blame them. No use in them wasting their time trying to talk sense to an idiot.

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    • DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:44pm

      INDIVIDUALISM – You’re a liar. No one tells you anything. Your own mother won’t even speak to you. She tells people she meets that you passed away.

      Report Post » DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL  
    • Individualism
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:21pm

      You uniformed voters are the idiots that are destroying this country.

      Report Post » Individualism  
  • ms2020
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:13pm

    If the only reason you don‘t like Mitt Romney or the only reason you wouldn’t got for Mitt Romney is because he’s white that would make you a screaming racist. Now accept that and go out into the world and tell everyone you are a racist. No need to deny it anymore.

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  • Mutiny
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:13pm

    Honestly how does the race card play in this race? The blacks are going to vote for Obama. Who cares? If they calling you a racist, bigot, or whatever people like to say generally you are right and they are wrong.

    I get by both sides are talking about jobs. Blah blah blah its the number one thing. When we go bankrupt we are going to have 30 to 40 % unemployment. If they talk about cutting spending they will both look like hypocrites and people might to begin to see through both of their BS.

    Under the Paul Ryan plan the government cuts 5 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. That leaves us with 25+ trillion in debt. That is a 50% increase in debt. Does anyone think jobs matter when we are spending the way we are? Yes job increase revenue but what do these ass clowns in Washington do with extra money? Shrimp treadmills, pig crap research, and tattoo removal, that is where our extra money goes.

    We have a spending problem, which is going to lead to a bankruptcy problem, which is going to lead to a government cracking American citizens skulls problem. Most of you support candidates who will not take us out of the UN, will continue to spend money like crazy, ignore the FED, and who support bills like the NDAA and Patriot act. You are the ones causing this. Until you see it we have no chance of recovery. If you dont see it soon we will be under a global socialist government very soon.

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    • woodyee
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:34pm

      I care. I HATE what the Demonic-rat Party has done to Black Americans. There are Black Americans rising up to confront the institutionalized racism that is the american left and their Demonic-rat Party. It’s up to us to support them –

      Adam West
      Thomas Sowell
      Clarence Thomas
      Walter Williams
      Charles Payne
      Larry Elder

      …and a long list of others that the racist Leftwing media wouldn’t give the time of day to…

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on July 11, 2012 at 6:28am

      This is MUTINEER’S real take on racism… it’s to be ignored. It’s just a small potatos issue for Paul supporters and the right has had to deal with racist accusations from the left for years because of Ron Paul and his racist followers. If we ignore “our” racism (like putting their own hands over their eyes thinking nobody will see them type ignorance) it will just go away…

      MUTINEER wrote a few threads ago… “As for the new letters (Ron Paul Newsletters), I will be honest, I don’t care if he (Ron Paul) did write them.”

      So if the left is accusing Romney and Mormonism of racism… that’s one point that MUTINEER will ignore while he goes on the bash Romney over everything else from the fringe vote splitting (Obama supporting) right.

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  • Cove30
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:12pm

    Seriously, this is what election advertising has come to??

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:18pm

      Yes, seriously this is what this election is coming to… This is the Democrap party running scared… They know he’s going to lose, so they are going to pull out all the stops. This is just the beginning.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:11pm

      Well, the media has always been so firmly in the Liberal‘s pocket’s it’s ridiculous. The difference was that they once had subtlety (debatable) but tossed that right out the window when President Bush took office. I think him winning in 2000 sent them into such a blind rage their mask broke.

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:12pm

    What are these fools going to do after election day for the next 30 years……cause we are not ever going to allow another communist in the white house anymore……poor libs and their nasty minds will trun on their own…

    Report Post » welovetheUSA  
  • The-Monk
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:09pm

    “The group is directed by Razor & Tie….”

    So do they Tie you up before or after they cut you up?

    Report Post » The-Monk  
  • woodyee
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:08pm

    Perforated feces, Batman!!!

    Leftists / Liberals are racist?!?!?!?

    Who knew??????

    Report Post » woodyee  
  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:05pm

    Come on people, the left is trying to bait us. But you will see the trolls on this website jump on the bandwagon and start trying to start everyone to start saying “Oh yeah, well the left is just a bunch of ____________”

    Their tactic is they will throw the first punch, and when you sink to their level, you get flagged by their referees, the Press.

    Report Post » Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra  
  • pdw
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 7:02pm

    They should at least have better acting! Do people really listen to people who a child can tell they are phony.

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  • Tom
    Posted on July 10, 2012 at 6:59pm

    Nice warping of reality… a lib constant.

    Report Post » Tom  
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