Monday, February 4, 2013

Monday, February 4, 2013

Stacey Dash's Romney Problem

"Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future." With a single tweet, actress Stacey Dash blew up the Twitterverse, igniting a full-on backlash -- so much so that she went on CNN's Piers Morgan show this week to defend her choice of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Stacey Dash's Romney Problem

POSTED: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 2:47 PM

"Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future."

With a single tweet, actress Stacey Dash blew up the Twitterverse, igniting a full-on backlash -- so much so that she went on CNN's Piers Morgan show this week to defend her choice of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Just why would Dash's endorsement be controversial? Is it because she's an actor and Hollywood votes overwhelmingly Democratic, Clint Eastwood notwithstanding? Or is it because she's black, so it's assumed she should have an allegiance to an African American president? Or is it because Dash -- who played Dionne, the materialistic sidekick to Alicia Silverstone's Cher in the 1995 hit, Clueless -- recently quit the VH1 hit Single Ladies and is jobless?

As one tweeter put it: "You're an ‘You’re an unemployed black woman endorsing Mitt Romney. You’re voting against yourself thrice, you poor beautiful idiot."

Clueless, maybe, but certainly no idiot. Truth is, Dash has a constitutional right to express herself -- and her choice -- just like Romney t-shirt wearing teen Samantha Pawlucy does. After all, this is America. We should be encouraging citizens to excercise their freedom of choice, not discouraging it.

And to the haters who disagree, I've got two words for them: "As if!"

Watch Dash, who voted for President Barack Obama in 2008, defend her endorsement of Romney below.

Annette John-Hall @ 2:47 PM Permalink | 48 comments

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Comments (48)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:07 PM, 10/10/2012

Stacey, THANKS for standing up for your VOTE! PS, I don't think Stacey has a Romney PROBLEM, I think Stacey has a Romney SOLUTION!

— JTLavery

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:31 PM, 10/10/2012

Lol, reign it in cowboy....care to share the SOLUTION, or is it a secret?

— SoPhilDenizen

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:08 AM, 10/11/2012

Libs don't do that because after 3+ years it's obvious they haven't got one! Failed results are always a secret.

— sarah89

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:10 PM, 10/10/2012

As soon as black person voices an opinion contrary to the accepted Democratic Party/NAACP/Rainbow Coalition/Sharpton/Jackson "Thought and Speech Police" they are immediately branded a "TOM" or a race traitor.

— SEAL76

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:37 PM, 10/10/2012

As we white guys say: "Good luck with that. Let me know how it works out." Barack Husein Obama is not everyone's cup of tea, no doubt.

— dlluxx

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:49 PM, 10/10/2012

The liberal left tells us how "tolerant, open minded, and diverse" they are... as long as everyone all thinks the same liberal thoughts...

— ObamaSolyndra

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:54 PM, 10/10/2012

PIERS SHOULD GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. STACEY GETS IT. THE SOCIALISTS DEMOCRAT PARTYS MAIN GOAL IS TAKE YOUR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AWAY, AS MUCH AS THEY CAN GET.

— apinelli

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:55 PM, 10/10/2012

Oh, for Heavens Sake, why does this lovely young woman have to defend her support of Mit Romney! What is wrong with people who dis others if they don't agree with them. Grow up naysayers!!

— virginia dell

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:06 PM, 10/10/2012

Conservatives have always had a funny definition of freedom of speech: they seem to think that it means they can say whatever they want without fear of anyone responding negatively. Stacey Dash is of course perfectly free to voice her opinion, and vote for whoever she wants, no one is saying otherwise. And everyone else is perfectly free to call her an idiot for it. And she is an idiot.

— Jacque Strapp

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:59 PM, 10/10/2012

Amen! And the funny thing is, if she, as a black woman, tweet her support for President Obama, the same malcontents in this thread who are praising her would be hurling all manner of racial invective her way. Talk about hypocrites.

— wb2nd

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:15 PM, 10/10/2012

"Talk about hypocrites." Except that you have no prove of your outlandish claim. Instead, what we have with this case, is another supreme example of the outright hypocrisy and disgusting behavior of the left. The party of supposed tolerance will not hesitate to insult and castigate anyone, they deem straying from the plantation, as Herman Cain put it.

— camtheman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:25 PM, 10/10/2012

You're a moron. The proof can be found in the comments section of any article, in any paper, that even suggests that a black person might support President Obama. Oh, and "prove" is not the word you were looking for. Oops--as a liberal, I guess I have to be tolerant of the imbecilic, too, in which case I probably shouldn't have pointed that out. My bad.

— wb2nd

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:30 PM, 10/11/2012

I am curious. Why is it that anyone who disagrees with the left is an idiot or stupid? What do you consider smart? Is someone who simply does as they are told smart? Is it smart to look at each choice and decide what benefits you? Is it smart spend money you do not have? Is it smart to buy a house that you can not afford? Is it smart to bankrupt the country?

— Dutch-wayne

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:11 PM, 10/10/2012

I'd like to poll her.

— Commentdant_Klink

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:02 PM, 10/10/2012

Well, even though she's a misguided Romney supporter, I get the sense from your postings on these boards, that you are way, way beneath her, and she wouldn't touch you if you were oxygen and she were dying of asphyxiation.

— wb2nd

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