Friday, July 27, 2012

The Romney Shambles in Britain

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"Romney Shambles" is a descriptive hashtag on Twitter to describe Mitt Romney's trip abroad, which started in Great Britain yesterday. He made so many gaffes in such a short amount of time that without instant news on Twitter no one could keep up with them.

My collection of quotes on Snark Amendment

In just one day, Romney managed the following:
More Here: Guardian UK: Oh, Mitt, Those Romney Gaffes In Full

Edited to Add: This video from the DNC taking full advantage of Mitt's misfortune.




By the end of the "longest day" people had dug up this gem, from Romney's book No Apologies:
England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions. Yet only two lifetimes ago, Britain ruled the largest and wealthiest empire in the history of humankind. Britain controlled a quarter of the earth's land and a quarter of the earth's population

So I guess Mitt once thought of himself as an expert on "England," someone who could explain the  British Isles better than the people actually living there. I wonder if he feels that way after yesterday?


 
 
 
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