Do the Romney

I showed up a couple days late to this Internet sensation, and it wasn't quite as hilarious and awkward as I pictured it, when I first heard about it.

This video was billed as: Mitt Romney sings "Who Let the Dogs Out" to an all black audience on Martin Luther King Junior day.

And that does happen, depending on your definition of singing.

"Who Let the Dogs Out" was a pop rap song recorded a few years ago by The Baha Men.

But the actual footage turned out to be less damning than what I had imagined.

Still, it shows Romney, in his element, as the ever-changing, always-faking, smiling no-matter-what candidate.

Through the course of the MLK jr. Day video Romney goes from strangely reciting Baha Men lyrics while posing for a photo, to telling people in jackets they are going to catch cold - while he wears a light shirt- to Romney admiring the "bling" on a baby.

Almost everyone in the video is black.

And then there is Romney latching onto outdated stereotypes, more in tune with a cruise-ship DJ than black Southern voters' concerns.

But I don't think Romney treated the South Carolina parade crowd any differently than he has treated crowds across the country.

Romney tried to relate to the black crowd by adopting an almost-10-year-old rap song and a word made popular by rap artists years ago.

That sounds familiar.

During his short tenure in government, Romney has repeatedly stereotyped his constituents.

Romney stereotyped Massachusetts as a state that believes in equal rights and the right to choose before he ran for governor there.

Then he stereotyped the Republican party as a gay-bashing, immigrant-hating, male-centrist party, when he ran for its nomination.

Republicans across the country have done the same, but Romney has bought full into it, sort of like the late-comer to a music scene, who fakes it by buying all the albums, and putting posters up on his walls.

Now here are your videos, Romney on the national holiday for Reverend King, and The Baja Men, with their hit song - back to back.