The former Massachusetts governor didn’t go to the NAACP expecting to
win votes. In fact, his true audience wasn’t the one in Houston, but
the one in Montana, at a fund-raiser later the same day, where he
bragged about giving his NAACP hosts heck:
“When I mentioned I am going to get rid of ‘Obamacare,’ they weren’t
happy. I didn’t get the same response” as here. That’s OK; I want people
to know what I stand for and if I don’t stand for what they want, go
vote for someone else, that’s just fine. But I hope people understand
this: Your friends who like ‘Obamacare,’ you remind them of this, if
they want more stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other
guy — more free stuff. But don’t forget, nothing is really free.”
That he’s trumpeting to donors how he’s just disabused black voters
of thinking they were gonna get “more free stuff” is indeed a bold move —
boldly ugly, that is. Somewhere, Newt “Give Those Kids a Mop” Gingrich
is thinking he and old Mitt have more in common than he knew.
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