Gingrich and Santorum might be trying to steal all the racist voters from Ron Paul

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Can Newt and Santorum just get their facts straight and quit dog-whistling to the most racist, disgusting segments of their unsavory voting base?

Today in New Hampshire:

[According to a tweet from Slate writer Dave Weigel, Newt Gingrich said at a Plymouth, NH town hall] that he plans to “go to the NAACP convention and tell the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.”

Yeah, okay. Go for it, tough guy.

The old ‘black people are takin’ all the hard werkin’ peeples monies!’ argument. Except that if you’re going to go by facts, such as those provided by the socialist US Census Bureau, over 15% of the U.S. population is currently living in poverty — AND HALF OF THOSE IN POVERTY ARE WHITE. From Wikipedia:

Poverty and race — The US Census declared that in 2010 15.1% of the general population lived in poverty:[29]

    • 9.9% of all non-Hispanic white persons
    • 12.1% of all Asian persons
    • 26.6% of all Hispanic persons (of any nationality)
    • 27.4% of all black persons.

About half of those living in poverty are non-Hispanic white (19.6 million in 2010),[29] but poverty rates are much higher for blacks and Hispanics. Non-Hispanic white children comprised 57% of all poor rural children.[30]

Here’s something else completely weird that happened today: Santorum says that on Monday, when he said this:

“I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families.”

…he claims he didn’t say “black people.” He said “BLAH people.” Blah people. He doesn’t want to give blah people other people’s money.

I. Shit. You. Not.

I’m sure Santorum doesn’t include the wealthy and corporations in those blah people taking other people’s money though — more tax cuts for them.

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5 thoughts on “Gingrich and Santorum might be trying to steal all the racist voters from Ron Paul”

  1. 1. I listened to – well, viewed – the video. He said black. I heard it. I wasn’t expecting it either. I’m sure the man thought he’s in Iowa, it’s overwhelmingly white – like HERE! – and no one would mind. In fact, they’d agree. I interchange ‘black’ vs African-American given the context all the time. And who the fuck are these “blah people?” Is BLAH an acronym for something?

    2. I can hardly wait for ole Newt to show his fat, grifting ass up at the NAACP convention to tell ANYBODY there ANYTHING, especially the (alleged) bullshit passed along per Dave Weigel. Fuck that; I’m going to the NAACP convention and WAIT for Newt to show up. Shall I report live? ;)

    • 1. He says: “What I started to say was a word and then it sort of changed and ‘bluh’ came out. And people said I said ‘black’ and I didn’t.”

      2. Me too because if won’t happen. And if you go, YES you should report live!!

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