Romney's Final Insult To Americans (Hopefully)

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In spite of a world-class record of incredibly stupid and offensive gaffes, Mitt Romney just cannot help himself by shutting the f*ck up for a change. With his presidential campaign little more than a joke (and with the numbers now to constitute a clear national mandate against him) he just cannot leave well enough alone.

For some idiotic reason, yesterday during a conference call with donors, Romney managed to insult women, minorities, immigrants and the young – with any luck for the very last time. [I know I lack the stomach to read any more Romney stories or to watch any more news features…..]

It seems Romney told those top donors that he lost the election because President Obama bestowed “gifts” upon potential voters “especially the African-American community, the Hispanic community, and young people.”

“The president’s campaign, if you will, focused on giving targeted groups a big gift,” Romney said during that call to donors on Wednesday.

According to the New York Times’s Ashley Parker, he went on to explain:

Free contraceptives were very big with young college-aged women. And then, finally, Obamacare also made a difference for them, because as you know, anybody now twenty-six years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents’ plan, and that was a big gift to young people. They turned out in large numbers, a larger share in this election even than in 2008….You can imagine for somebody making $25,000 or $30,000 or $35,000 a year, being told you’re now going to get free health care, particularly if you don’t have it, getting free health care worth, what, $10,000 per family, in perpetuity, I mean, this is huge. Likewise with Hispanic voters, free health care was a big plus. But in addition with regards to Hispanic voters, the amnesty for children of illegals, the so-called Dream Act kids, was a huge plus for that voting group.

Of course, as reported by the Huffington Post:

Romney didn’t acknowledge any major missteps, such as his “47 percent” remarks widely viewed as denigrating nearly half of Americans, his lack of support for the auto bailout, his call for illegal immigrants to “self-deport,” or his change in position on abortion, gun control and other issues. He also didn’t address the success or failure of the campaign’s strategy of focusing on the economy in the face of some improvement in employment and economic growth during the months leading up to Election Day.

Obama won the popular vote by about 3.5 million votes, or 3 percent, and won the Electoral College by a wide margin, 332-206 electoral votes. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks showed that Obama led Romney by 11 percentage points among women and won better than 7 of 10 Hispanic voters and more than 9 of 10 black voters.

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Romney’s Final Insult To Americans (Hopefully)