Although you are technically correct, a response like that would be SO politically incorrect that Romney would have shot himself in the foot so badly that he might as well resign from the race right then and there immediately after making that statement!! Donald Trump made that statement but only AFTER he stated that he would NOT himself run for the presidency. That would be drinking the Kool-Aid!!
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Forgive me for being so blunt, but the media and the establishment have succeeded in brainwashing you completely. You
really have been drinking the Kool Aid and thinking exactly as the establishment wants you to think.
In 1988, the Democrat candidate for president was Michael Dukakis and the Republican was George Bush, Sr.
In July 1988, Dukakis had a 17% lead over Bush in the polls. Reagan's second term was ending and there were serious scandals like Irangate. Bush was very unpopular and polls showed most Americans considered him to be a "wimp". The media spoke of the "wimp" factor. Americans were in the mood for a change.
What did the Bush campaign do? They took a case of a convicted black murderer named Willie Horton who was allowed out on a furlough in Massachusetts where Dukakis was governor. Horton raped a white woman while out on the weekend furlough. Bush's campaign showed Horton's black face all over their television commercials. The media, the commentators, the pundits and the so-called experts all called Bush's commercials "racist".
But the more the media and the establishment "experts" attacked Bush, the more he went up in the polls. The "politically incorrect" commercials enabled Bush to close the 17% gap in the polls and even surpass Dukakis. On election day, Bush beat Dukakis 54% to 46% - that's an 8% margin of victory. So Bush went from 17% behind in July to 8% ahead on election day - a 25% change, which is astonishing in American politics.
I could give you other examples of how "politically incorrect" campaigns can work if done properly. In the case of Obama, there is enough ammunition to absolutely devastate this black Muslim racist Jew-hating America-hating Marxist traitor. The media would howl but we would win at the polls by going over the heads of the media.