Cher Rips Romney's 'Racist Tea Bagger Masters'

She deletes tweets after anti-Romney rant
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted May 9, 2012 12:30 AM CDT
Cher Rips Mitt's 'Racist Tea Bagger Masters'
Cher greets her transgender child, Chaz Bono, at The 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards last month.   (AP Photo/Vince Bucci)

Don't expect Cher to sing a duet with Ted Nugent any time soon. If Mitt Romney "gets elected I don't know if I can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women-Hating Tea Bagger Masters," she wrote in one of several tweets yesterday that were later deleted, E! Online reports. "They care nothing about the POOR The OLD The SICK The HUNGRY CHILDREN & People striving 4 a Better Life." Told by a fellow Twitter user that her remarks probably cost her half her fans, she responded: "Thank God I Got the half that thinks!" (More tweet stories.)

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