Mitt Romney's Gaffe Fatigue
Mitt Romney has given me gaffe fatigue. The other day he said, "I'm not familiar with precisely what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was," and I couldn't even be bothered to stop what I was doing and make fun of him. All winter long the Massachusetts Motormouth entertained us with his admiration for the height of trees in Michigan and his love of firing people. When he offered Rick Perry a $10,000 bet and talked up his friendships with NASCAR team owners, he did more to define himself as the 1 percent than anything on his tax returns did. But lately the guy's a big snooze.
It's getting to the point where everyone has come to an understanding that nothing Mitt Romney says is meant to be taken seriously. Case in point: Romney's interview with Time's Mark Halperin. Halperin tossed him the mother of all softball questions, and Romney was barely able to foul it off. He asked, "... what specific skills or policies did you learn at Bain that would help you create an environment where jobs would be created?"
"Well that's a bit of a question like saying, what have you learned in life that would help you lead?" answered Romney. The lone specific skill he was able to come up with was "I understand, for instance, how to read a balance sheet," but that just makes him like QuickBooks, except he'd require more software updates.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-stanford/mitt-romney-gaffes_b_1553960.html?ref=politics
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