Whoa! Look out! What was that?! Oh it was a Mitt Romney flip flop, I should have known. This week Romney claimed on more that one occasion to have seen his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. After a little research showed that Romney’s father never marched with King, the GOP presidential candidate now says he meant that by saw his father he meant that he was aware of his father marching and Dr. Kings work but not the two things together or something equally stupid.
The bottom line is this, Romney’s father, Michigan Governor George Romney, never marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and Mitt certainly never saw the two together. But, let’s let Mitt try to explain this.
“If you look at the literature, if you look at the dictionary, the term ‘saw’ includes being aware of in the sense I’ve described,” Romney told reporters in Iowa. “It’s a figure of speech and very familiar, and it’s very common. And I saw my dad march with Martin Luther King. I did not see it with my own eyes, but I saw him in the sense of being aware of his participation in that great effort.”
What a load of crap. I did a quick dictionary search and nowhere does it say saw means you get to merge two separate events together and make them one. Mitt Romney is a classic opportunist that believes that the American people will not check up on his lies.
Unlike his son, Governor George Romney was a champion of civil rights and was a man that had strong convictions and beliefs. He must roll over in his grave watching his son invoke his legacy in another set of opportunistic campaign lies.
As much as I dislike Screamy Matthews, he did a pretty good beat down of Willy Mitt’s press secretary last night. Leave us not forget that Roney’s first memory was of him marching with his Dad and King in Detroit; then that was whittled down to just ‘seeing’ his Dad march with King, to his Dad participating in a civil rights march through Grosse Pointe the day after King left town.
Then there’s his non-existant ‘endorsement’ by the NRA when he ran for Gov. that his flack admitted was really just a few NRA members passing out flyers for him.
And the Great White Hunter transformed into the suburbanite pursuer of field mice with a .22.
The guy’s a pathological liar, and he’ll be popping out soon — he’s toast.
Comment by RS Janes — December 22, 2007 @ 7:20 am
I dont care much if he marched with jesus christ himself. What has that got to do with anythng?
Comment by marvin alvarez — December 24, 2007 @ 6:19 pm