“I don’t know if he understood that he was saying something that was insulting”
Inevitably, Gutierrez was asked to respond to Romney’s “gifts” remark, wherein the former presidential hopeful asserted that the president won re-election due to the “gifts” he have to key demographic blocs. (Namely, minorities and young voters.)
“I was shocked,” he said. “I was shocked, and frankly I don’t think that’s why the Republicans lost the election…I think we lost the election because the far right of this party has taken the party to a place that it doesn’t belong. We are the party of growth, of prosperity, of tolerance.”
“You would admit, though, that your candidate said a lot of things seen as anti-Latino,” Crowley followed up. “You yourself said that they fear the Republican Party, and he was the head of it.”
“And that is true, and, you know, the unfortunate part and we were just talking about this, I don’t know if he understood that he was saying something that was insulting,” Gutierrez said. “The language, the attitude, the body language, that’s what Latinos watch.”
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Not a Mitt Romney fan here…but he was spot on with this remark.
Obama won because he handed out the goodies. Thats not the only thing going on in the election, but its what shored up Obama’s support in a bad year for him.
sharrukin on November 18, 2012 at 9:26 PM
My new pet peeve: immigrants who come to this country to remake it in the image of the hellholes they left.
Valkyriepundit on November 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM
It’s not a gift if you’re entitled.
Seth Halpern on November 18, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Here’s an idea Repubs.. Why don’t you start taking the criticism to the FRICKIN ENEMY. This is why we fricking lose.
melle1228 on November 18, 2012 at 9:30 PM
No matter what you call it, Obama showered constituents with $6 trillion of borrowed money. It’s insulting to pretend like this isn’t a problem.
theperfecteconomist on November 18, 2012 at 9:31 PM
Who’s this Gutierrez guy who was supposedly reaching out to the Latino vote and is now helping to further alienate them from the party? Seriously, was he just a mercenary, hired for a job he didn’t care about?
theperfecteconomist on November 18, 2012 at 9:35 PM
Look at how this moron agrees with the lib journalist that Romney said some things that were anti-Latino. Like what, Candy? Or is it just because he had the big R next to his name that what he says has to be anti some group or other?
So sick of partisan hacks like her, and spineless GOPers that don’t challenge their narrative. Fluke em all.
changer1701 on November 18, 2012 at 9:36 PM
Romney is no Nero – but Obama is.
OldEnglish on November 18, 2012 at 9:38 PM
It seems that since Carlos Gutierrez, as head of Mr. Romney’s “Latino Outreach” (really??), did such a lousy job, he shouldn’t be so eager to dive into the ‘Sh!t on Mitt’ tank with the other sharks.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 18, 2012 at 9:38 PM
Then Gutierrez goes and insults conservatives himself.
Wethal on November 18, 2012 at 9:41 PM
Gutierrez was also one of the President’s [Bush] point men working with Congress to pass comprehensive immigration legislation,
A holdover from the Bush amnesty days.
sharrukin on November 18, 2012 at 9:43 PM
It’s insulting we should be caring what Latinos think. If Latinos are the future of this country then I’m white flighting it to somewhere else because we don’t have a bright future.
ninjapirate on November 18, 2012 at 9:43 PM
Is it they can’t or won’t? I’m starting to think repub pols did not grow up the same way repub arnold ziffel did—I did get testosterone.
PS, I still love you melly much.
arnold ziffel on November 18, 2012 at 9:43 PM
Romney’s problem was hiring too many Bush people on the premise that Bush wasn’t toxic among Hispanics.
theperfecteconomist on November 18, 2012 at 9:44 PM
Gifts can also be for unions, the workers of which would consider themselves hard workers. For example the auto bailout was a huge, slobbery union kiss.
eforhan on November 18, 2012 at 9:46 PM
BTW, I’d rather live in a completely latinized country than the absolute tyranny this hispandering has turned into. I’d rather live in a completely non-european society where one race has complete control than the farce our politics has turned into.
ninjapirate on November 18, 2012 at 9:46 PM
So…Latinos are stupid, is that what he’s saying?
It’s been like a mass outbreak of stupidity and Airing Of Grievances since November 6. What a constant load of crap.
First Principles or go home.
ConservativeLA on November 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM
Damn those crazy conservatives for making political life so damn difficult for those nice sane moderates! /sarc
Aitch748 on November 18, 2012 at 9:59 PM
Really? The Right messed this up for Gov. Romney?
Cindy Munford on November 18, 2012 at 10:07 PM
@ninjapirate: I would gladly listen to them if I thought they or the people they permit to speak for them would meet me halfway.
I think there’s just a big disconnect between the attitudes I grew up with (which were at least grudgingly deferential toward WASP American culture) and what I perceive today (namely that whites ,including those who made that immigrants’ bargain, are quaint at best, tainted at worst, and have no right to expect comparable respect).
Maybe deep down I feel like the rug’s been pulled out from under me.
Seth Halpern on November 18, 2012 at 10:17 PM
The homeboys just misunderstood him.
rogerb on November 18, 2012 at 10:20 PM
Obama won because of the media. If Obama was held to the same scrutiny the media applied to Bush or othe Republican presidents, Obama would have had no chance. Republicans don’t need to do anything except nominate true conservatives and bypass the legacy media to present their ideals more directly to the people. As long as major figures in the Republican Party continue to try to “get along” with the MSM, they will only win sporadically. The MSM must be bypassed and eviscerated in order for the elephant to stampede.
Aplombed on November 18, 2012 at 10:35 PM
How many times are you going to post this crap, HotAir? Seriously, give it a rest.
Blake on November 19, 2012 at 12:11 AM
Screw the bypass crap – just gut them.
drunyan8315 on November 19, 2012 at 1:28 AM
It’s like telling an alcoholic that they’re an alcoholic. They don’t want to hear it. Meanwhile, the people using them will tell you what a jerk you are for “insulting” them.
29Victor on November 19, 2012 at 2:48 AM
I don’t call them gifts. I call them paid voters.
kregg on November 19, 2012 at 6:15 AM
THIS +1000
cmsinaz on November 19, 2012 at 6:24 AM
Romney won independents. He lost the latino vote at a slightly lower percentage than Reagan and Bush Sr (even after their amnesty). If Romney hat turned out the base better than McCain then he’d be president.
gwelf on November 19, 2012 at 7:12 AM
From the past vote records on hispanic,latinos, WTF-ever you want to call people who, BTW, have quite a lot of EUROPEAN genetics in their DNA, obviously prefer socialism aka communism to Republicanism.
And Republicanism isn’t just a party in America.
It actually represents the principles this country was founded under.
Instead of growing up under these ideals & being taught to respect them, children for decades have been taught to despise them & reject them.
This is what happens when you let communists control academia & the culture.
They took over Hollywood first, then academia.
They’ve won. And it only took them about 2 generations to do it.
Badger40 on November 19, 2012 at 7:49 AM
I agree and would add this; 68% of the American people want ObamunistCare Repealed, but Romney did not get 68% of the vote. That’s the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about.
Not that many believed he would or could do what he claimed with that, or anything else. We are incredibly cynical, and Mr. Romney has a credibility problem.
dogsoldier on November 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM
You just described upwards of 95% of the Republican Party.
gryphon202 on November 19, 2012 at 9:01 AM
I’d beg to differ. I am not a cynic. I am a realist. Mitt Romney was the cynic if he thought he could get away with doing what he did in Mass-uh-chew-sits and then turn around and feed us a line in the 2012 campaign.
gryphon202 on November 19, 2012 at 9:03 AM
if this race sh!t continues…there’s going to be civil war in this country.
….I guess the whites are the Ni@@ers now. Chicken…roosting?
Can.I.be.in.the.middle on November 19, 2012 at 9:10 AM