I know exactly what I’m “claiming”–nothing. Originally I said that figurative language would cover 1) the marches having taken place that meant that George Romney “marched with” MLK even if they weren’t physically marching in the same place and 2) Mitt saying he “saw” this even though he wasn’t at either march. Romney himself made the “figurative” claim, not the literal one, and then for the campaign to promote “eyewitnesses” for the literal view is just stupid.

Do me a favor and read every word of my post next time before you comment.

Now I wonder whether you used the same approach to the loud cries of “Liar!” aimed at Mike Huckabee-who actually had a bachelor’s degree in religion and was a considerable way toward a Master of Divinity degree when he uttered the only technically inaccurate claim that he had a degree in theology.

Bloggers like the lovely Anwyn are bending over backwards to “forgive” racist cult member Mitt Romney’s stupid lie that he watched his father march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
I think the reason this story has legs is the pu…

Not to mention the hypocrisy and irony about his “civil rights” record, when the cult to which he belongs would not ordain black men for another 15 years after that ‘63 march, on the grounds that dark skin was a mark of disfavor from God, that blacks and brown peoples could never ascend into heaven, except as “servants” for the “delightsome” (their word) white people.

I find Romney disgusting on many levels, so I applaud his exposure. Secondly, the public usually gets it right about the character of individuals, and rarely sinks someone on a false charge. Like the fact that Algore may have been innocent of claiming to invent the internet or he and Tipper being the inspiration for Love Story, these stories none the less resonated with the general public because they reflected the true nature of his character- a stiff, pompous, preachy and pedantic elitist who always thought he was the smartest guy in the world and was indeed so smart he needed to be president to save us poor stupid common folks from our own stupidity.

Conversely, the public never bought the MSM’s ‘narrative’ that George W. Bush was an intellectually vapid moron, concluding rightly that a former military fighter jet pilot and Ivy League graduate was not a cretin, no matter how many “Bush is Stupid” stories the liberal press cranked out.

Romney is a slick, packaged, dishonest empty suit. If it takes a story like this to take him down, so be it.