(Orig. photo: Pool/Reuters)
Mitt Romney, who has a few months yet to stumble-tongue his way into another dozen or so memorable head-shakers before he actually gets the nomination, offered what may well turn out to be this campaign's most blunderful word-blunder yet. It's already viral, unrecallable:
Uh, I'm actually going to to, I'm not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was. And with regards to, uh, I'll go back and take at what was said there.What's in evidence in this remarkable word salad is the mark of the bad liar.
We all know that Romney is a major liar. We've seen it over and over during this campaign. The pile of his lies already has grown enormously and the general election campaign is barely under way.
For someone with his assets, you would think he would have hired himself a better coach of effective lying. He can certainly afford it given the gobs of cash he's sucked up by destroying jobs and being rewarded for it. But apparently he's been a cheapskate on that front. Because he just isn't very good at it despite all the practice.
A good coach of effective lying will tell you that the first rule is: Don't deviate too far from the truth when lying. Because doing so will make it hard to follow the second rule, which is: Remember your lies.
Mr. "Whatever" has told so many lies and strayed from the truth so often that he can't remember which lie he told when. Sometimes, he's told two different lies about the same thing. And, in the heat of a campaign, that can really make things rough. Can, in fact, lead to the hemming and hawing we see in the statement made today. A jumble that will be used in campaign training seminars from now until mid-century on what not to do. Romney should patent that snippet now and make sure he makes money off it.
But, entertaining as it may be, it's not Romney's campaign clumsiness that's at issue. It's his policy agenda. And that is a nasty piece of business that would have him and his cronies doing even more of what Romney did when he was at Bain: demolishing jobs and transferring wealth into the pockets of the demolishers.
From that perspective, more stumble-tonguing, please.
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