Last week Mitt Romney stated that any discussion of his business record, his taxes or the way he made his fortune should not be discussed as part of the Presidential Campaign:

“[O]ur campaign would be– helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues and that attacks based upon– business or family or taxes or things of that nature… [would not be allowed]”

While most folks think this is silly, Mitt is serious about it. He really believes that nobody should be allowed to discuss anything about his record that might be a liability. His sense of entitlement is amazing.

Mitt has been on the ropes all summer long due to folks disregarding his wishes and talking about that record. He has added to his misery with a series of mistakes and the fact that he really is a dick. The more people know about him, the less they like him. Last week, Wingnuts were in a panic about Mittens and ordered him to select Paul Ryan as his running mate. Mitt did as he was told, but made the announcement in typical #romneyshambles style.

This summertime of fail has led Mitt’s media supporters to note that he only has one path to victory: “Romney needs to dominate the white vote huge to win this race”.

Mitt agrees and is working 24/7 to maximize white fear and resentment with dog whistles and code-talking. He is doubling down on race-baiting. Yesterday he almost revealed the game with an unhinged rant about how an angry and bitter Negro in the White House was attacking real ‘mericans like him.

On CBS this morning, Mitt explained why he thought it was so unfair:

“The president’s campaign has put out a campaign that’s talking about me and attacking me. I think it’s just demeaning to the nature of the process, particularly when we face the kinds of challenges we face.”

The shock of it all. You run for office and your opponent talks about you, your ideas and why he thinks you are wrong for the job. Most folks would think that this just comes with the territory when you run for President, but for Mitt it is an outrage. The idea that anybody might question him offends his sense of entitlement.

In Romney’s view, he should be able to say anything he wants. Tell any lie. Mitt can attack Barack Obama as the ‘Great Other’, as an unAmerican usurper of power, as a man who hates the Country, as a man who doesn’t understand American values, as a man who wants to take the money from hard working white folks and give it to lazy brown people, as a man unfit for office, as a man who is incompetent, as a man who is a gangster thug and a thousand other insults and lies that Romney and the Wingnuts use to attack President Obama ALL the time. In Mitt’s view race-baiting is justified if it might help him win. He is fine with using code-talking to call Barack Obama an angry black man that all decent white folks should fear. It is OK for Team Mitt to lie and to promote policies that will destroy the middle class. It is OK for his side to bring all the crazy they want.

What is not OK–what Mitt thinks is out-of-bounds–is for anybody to notice and/or mention any of it.

If you call Mitt out for the ways that his policies will hurt the middle-class: that’s going over the line. If you notice that Mitt made his fortune through tax dodges and the destruction of American Jobs, well that is out-of-bounds. If you point out that Mitt is using memes about welfare and angry black men to appeal to white fear and anxiety, then you’re guilty of hate speech.

Mitt Romney wants to run for President with all aspects about him, his campaign, his record, his plans, his statements and his goals off-limits from any review or discussion.

He is a coward, a whiner and a deeply, deeply dishonest man.

He’ll hate it, but I think folks should discuss him, his record and his campaign’s embrace of racist code-talking.

Cheers