Ann Romney Woos Hispanic Voters, Urging They Get Past ‘Their Biases’

[Judi Lynn]

Source: ABC News

Aug 29, 2012 2:10pm
Ann Romney Woos Hispanic Voters, Urging They Get Past ‘Their Biases’

Tampa, Fla. -Ann Romney’s convention speech was directly aimed at wooing female voters, but at a lunch event Wednesday she changed her focus and pitched her husband to Hispanic voters, a voting bloc that is especially important in this battleground state, urging them to get past the “biases … from the Democratic machine.”

“I spoke to women last night and I wanted women to understand how important this election is for their children, but as I was sitting backstage listening, I thought, it’s also very important that the Latino community recognize how important this election is for them,” Romney said at the Latino Coalition luncheon Wednesday. “And they are mistaken if they think they are going to be better off with Barack Obama as their president. There really is only one way for prosperity, for small business, and that is, this is the simplest way I can say this: If Mitt Romney wins, America wins.”

Romney said her “importance in speaking out is making sure that those coalitions,” referring to women and Hispanic voters, “that would naturally be voting for another party wake up and say, You’d better really look at the issues this time.”

“You’d better really look at your future and figure out who’s going to be the guy that’s going to make it better for you and your children, and there is only one answer,” Mrs. Romney said, giving a harsher pitch than we usually hear from the woman who wants to be the next first lady.






Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/ann-romney-switches-focus-from-wooing-women-to-hispanic-voters/

[arcane1]

1. "You’d better really look at the issues, but don't expect me to mention any of them"

[wordpix]

66. Hey, Ann, "You'd better start paying your taxes & stop using your horse as a deduction"

[savalez]

74. And mandatory tithing is not the same as being charitable!

[2pooped2pop]

2. pot- kettle n/t

[onehandle]

3. 'Stupid beaners, vote for us.' nt

[hughee99]

16. Yes, they should have learned from the "stupid rednecks, vote for us" comments

that it doesn't work. Then again, if they were capable of learning from the mistakes of the past, they probably wouldn't be repukes in the first place.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. How's about the Republicans get past THEIR biases???

Holy fuck.

[cyclezealot]

5. Biases-whose biases. How about their's. ! Hooting Hispanic Republicans - quite a show last night.

The link...Thanks to Harper's Magazine. No thanks to the Mainstream Media.. See, video .
.
.A Troubling Chant on the Convention Floor
By Jack Hitt

.
An unscripted moment happened late this afternoon that caused the assembled mainstream media to turn away in the hope that it would disappear. As I was standing in line for a sandwich next to an Italian and a Puerto Rican correspondent, a controversy was unfolding on the floor. The RonPaulites, whose furious devotion to a single idea have made them the Ellen Jamesians of the right, were protesting a decision by RNC officials not to seat members of the Maine delegation, which was split between Paul and Romney supporters following rule changes made just prior to the convention. There were energetic shouts of “Aye!” and “Nay!” as a Puerto Rican party functionary—Zoraida Fonalledas, the chairwoman of the Committee on Permanent Organization—took her turn at the main-stage lectern. As she began speaking in her accented English, some in the crowd started shouting “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
..
At least half a dozen respected Latino pols are scheduled to talk later on at the convention. I doubt any of them will generate a clip like the one that might be playing wall-to-wall tonight in San Juan and southern Florida.
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http://www.harpers.org/archive/2012/08/hbc-90008805

[unblock]

6. she also asked jews to take a break from picking up pennies off the street to vote for rmoney.

[Vietnameravet]

29. Ha ha

I love your sense of humor!

[Ken Burch]

59. And then asked black voters to shuffle on down to the polls for the Romney/Ryan ticket.

[Robbins]

7. Hey Anne

Calling Hispanic voters Bias? Tell your husband to stop his hispanic bias.

Can i say the more I hear of her the less I like her.

[qwlauren35]

54. Somebody please explain this to me.

What biases? Many Hispanics are Republican. What more does she want?

[Scuba]

61. They're not sufficiently subservient for Ann's tastes.

[TBF]

8. THEIR biases? lololol .... nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. Oh, no she didn't!

What a completely tone-deaf, dumb-as-a-friggin'-stump, Stepford-wannabe.

A Republican telling Hispanic voters to get over their biases.

Oh, this is going to be such a FUN campaign.

[COLGATE4]

9. "Jesus Christ on Kolob, Mitt. Now we've even got

to pretend to talk with the help".

[Cha]

10. Fuck, they don't ever stop pro-freaking-

JECTING!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Wow

Can she be anymore clueless?

[wryter2000]

13. *Their* biases?

Keep it up, Ann. Get those numbers down around the numbers for African American voters. You can do it.

[Solly Mack]

14. Uh

Damn

[monmouth]

15. She must have read that book on how to win friends and influence whomever..n/t

[BenzoDia]

17. There's also the "you people" line she dropped:

"You people really know how to party. It was crazy!"

As if, 'those people' are different from, well, people

[Rozlee]

53. Damn right we know how to party.

And we're gonna partay like it's 2008 when Obama beats her husband's stuffy ass in two months.

[Iliyah]

18. If they really look at the issues than the women overall are truly fucked!

Does Ann R live in an alternate universe? Actually the GOP party's brains do live in an alternate universe, and the Romeny's believe Mitten will become a GOD just like the Mormon's GOD that lives planet Kolob.

[flpoljunkie]

19. What arrogance!

[Posteritatis]

20. Interesting thing to say after that court smackdown in Texas.. (nt)

[LovingA2andMI]

21. Ann are you Serious? People need to get past THEIR biases?

What about the "You People" comment Ann? Forget about that!

[Generic Other]

22. She just noticed how many Latino service people

it takes to wipe her rich fat ass?

That woman has got to put off anyone who has ever been tyrannized by her type. She looks and sounds like Linda Lay's twin sister (Mrs. Enron).

[bread_and_roses]

23. and they headline that "wooing" ?????????????

What an utterly repellent life-form she is. There is no creature in the natural world to which she can be compared - even an invasive fungus serves some purpose in nature. Unlike her - and him.

[freshwest]

60. K & R right here! Very good.

[LeftinOH]

24. Was this before or after the Puerto Rican delgate was booed? n/t

[valerief]

25. What a honking POS that broad is. nt

[SoapBox]

26. Come on all you gardners and housekeepers...

I guess I'm just reading this as f'ing rude.

THEY should get over their "biases"?

Kiss off Queen Ann.

To those in the Latino community...I hope you are not even considering them.

[LynneSin]

27. Then afterwards she said 'Let them eat cake'

what an idiot!

[MADem]

28. She just loves Hispanics, she even let the undocumented Guatemalans cutting her lawn in Belmont

drink "agua" from the hose on a hot day! If that's not "charity," why, what is?



Do I really need to pull this out?

[Rambis]

30. Hey you catholics vote for the mormon

News flash, they won't "He is not a christian" I live in a 50% Hispanic community people tell me I will not vote for a non christian. It is an even easier decision since ShitMOney is a total joke.

[GallopingGhost]

31. This is rich (ha ha)

The wanna-be first lady telling Hispanics they will be better off under the party who has Limbaugh as their talking head idol...you know, the Limbaugh who said all Hispanics are wetbacks who are only good for picking lettuce.

What an effing joke.

[iemitsu]

32. after listening to ann romney speak

several times over the last few days one of her discourse quirks becomes obvious. everything just occurs to her while contemplating
the moment. "I was sitting backstage listening, I thought, it’s also very important that the Latino community recognize how important this election is for them,”. yesterday she was shown at her new hampshire estate musing about how mitt had ironed his own shirt that morning. as if nothing she is saying has been considered or thought through. she's just so natural!
she couldn't sound more contrived if she tried.
she may sound more genuine than her husband but that's not saying much.
calling her a great speaker is like calling ronald reagan "the great communicator".

[dixiegrrrrl]

67. Yeah, because until Queen Anne thunk it,

the Latino community had no clue how important the election was...
Riiight...

[iemitsu]

72. or how wonderful romney and ryan are

and all their programs to help the struggling in america.
poor uninformed lations.
good thing ann set them straight.

[David Zephyr]

33. K&R.

The GOP will try to bury this story. It's up to us to pass it along to everyone we know.

Thanks Judi Lynn.

[rocktivity]

34. What's Spanish for "Icy aloof condescending clueless tone-deaf female canine"?

Romney praised the First Lady of Puerto Rico Luce Fortuno, who introduced her last night, calling them “kindred spirits. What she and her husband are doing on that little island is quite remarkable. You should be so proud...

"I had the most rocking time in Puerto Rico at a political rally than I’ve ever had in my entire life...You people really know how to party. It was crazy!”

Romney added that the trip was a “wonderful chance” to “peek into a culture and a vibrancy and energy, a passion that I saw form that little island that really what represents the best in America. It is what you give to that country, a vibrancy, a color, a fabric of family and joy that anyone who is near your community recognizes that and feels it coming from you,” Romney said.

rocktivity

[colorado_ufo]

35. "Wake up and say, 'You had better look at the issues this time . . .'"

As if these people never examined any issues that might affect their future, or listened to a presidential debate, or read a newspaper and only voted as they were instructed! How insulting can you get!

Oh - actually, you can get MORE insulting: Just add another line with ,"You people."

Stupid bitch.

[otohara]

36. Loco Gringo

Lady...we don't need you being condescending towards us/them

[GallopingGhost]

44. I don't think she knows any way other than condescending.

The rabble must know their place.

[TheDonkey]

37. "You PEOPLE need to drop your biases"

This woman just cannot help herself when it comes to patronizing the electorate.

[Vietnameravet]

38. Come on you taco eaters...put aside your prejudices and stereotypes!

..Think of the man whose grass you cut and how many more jobs you will have once Mitt eliminates the minimum wage..

We love you all.. in fact some of the people that groom my dressage horse are from... where ever it is you all come from.

Once you put down those bongs and start thinking clearly about who will make your life so much better, you will vote for my husband Mitt.

Ole! Jose! and Ole! Juanita!

Welcome to the Republican Big Tent!

[lunatica]

39. Latinos are just illegals with papers to the Romneys

He can't hire illegals! He's running for President for Christ's Sakes!

[CTyankee]

40. Godalmighty! What a STUPID thing to say...

Tell me this is from The Onion. Please.

[JDPriestly]

41. Is Romney accepting the support of the Republican Party in Arizona?

If so, one question: who is biased? The Republicans or the Democrats.

The Latino voters or the Tea-Baggers?

What an obnoxious message from Ann Romney.

[Tom Ripley]

42. "Try a new way, Jose!"

[olddad56]

43. Hey give her a break, she isn't used to talking with people who aren't wealthy...

She does have a few of Hispanic friends. Well they are servants, but occasionally she talks to them in a friendly voice.

[bamacrat]

45. She must think their stupid.

I bet she talked REALLY LOUD a n d s l o w s o t h e y c a n u n d e r s t a n d h e r.

[KeepItReal]

46. To paraphrase Mrs. RMoney: "You people need to stop trippin and vote Republican"

[Coyotl]

47. "We want liberal people of color to vote for us" but

don't be surprised when you get to the polls and discover we purged you for being a liberal person of color!

[texshelters]

51. Exactly

but the exhiled Cubans who were part of the 1% on the island will still vote for the Republicans.

If they weren't so ignorant, they might realize that promoting social values such as pro-choice, pro-family is a better way to approach some Latinos. (Oye, Latinos aren't one monolithic voting block any more than Asians or Irish people are.) Calling out their supposed bias will only get you, "ve te bambasa mal educada ignorate racista!"

PTxS

[wordpix]

65. "if you're not kicked off the voter rolls by us, vote for us" - what a freak show!

Go back to your island and your dancing horse-tax deduction, Ann

[Coyotl]

68. well put!

[skeewee08]

48. She is one

Crazy woman...

[sad sally]

49. Hey, Mrs. AnnMitt, you didn't say his name, but we know the answer to this one: President Obama!

“You’d better really look at your future and figure out who’s going to be the guy that’s going to make it better for you and your children, and there is only one answer,” Mrs. Romney said, giving a harsher pitch than we usually hear from the woman who wants to be the next first lady.

[Smilo]

50. You see You Hispanic People

will be better off with a Romney presidency because... well with all the billionaires becoming trillionaires they will want more gardeners and maids.

[tanyev]

52. "You people need to get off, I mean past, your lazy biases."

[Thrill]

55. I can't imagine this went over well?

Any quotes from the people there?

[rocktivity]

56. And now for something completely different

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125180865


rocktivity

[Alamuti Lotus]

57. it's good she told the Mexicans to get over *their* biases, since Republicans sure as hell won't...

[Ken Burch]

58. Individuals are ALLOWED to have "biases"...they're called opinions.

Any possibility that Ann Romney will let go of her natural assumption that every time Latina walks in the room, she's there to scrub the floor?

[Scuba]

62. Hispanics need to get over their biases and adore white people like gawd intended.

[agentS]

63. Uh... She's supposed to be helping the R-R campaign, right?

Those were her instructions, right?
Because these last few days, it's like she's shooting her husband in the foot.

What am I complaining for? KEEP IT UP MRS. ROMNEY! KEEP TALKING PLEASE!!!

Could we somehow convince the Debate committee to hold a debate between the First Lady and Mrs. R-money? This sounds like more fun than Palin vs Biden.

[wordpix]

64. "“You’d better really look at your future..." Queen Ann has spoken! Arrogance & demanding much?

[Javaman]

69. the aloof and vapid attempts compassion. nt

[noiretextatique]

70. condescending, privileged, entitled jackass

preaching down to the little brown ones. i can't believe (and can) the "you'd better" language. fng asshole.

[TexasBushwhacker]

71. If you don't vote for my husband you must be biased

Way to woo voters Ann!

[Ilsa]

73. ABC says her tone is "harsher". She must be seeing the polls.

Let's hope Mitt turns her loose to go on a rampage and win this for Obama/Biden.