Romney campaign in a mess; cancels FL event after stupid statement.

[Foucaulf]

At 09.00ET republicans were dancing and clapping to music...what changed Mitt comments last night have gone viral and its full blown damage control.

Which comments?  Sorry, I've been out of the loop for a few hours, and haven't caught whatever virus is going viral.

Between a movie filmed in California denouncing Islam and attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi inspired by said film, the US Embassy in Cairo issued a statement on twitter condemning attempts at disrespecting other religions, targeted at the film.

Romney believed the Embassy's tweets were issued in response to the consulate attack and thus focused on criticizing the administration for "apologizing." He repeated this claim between official statements on the attack by Clinton and Obama.

[Foucaulf]

Oh yeah, I knew all of that.  Didn't think it was a big enough deal to "go viral" or whatever.  Come on, there's no evidence to suggest that whatever scheduling issues Romney has with this event in Florida is because of the embassy issue, is there?

From what I know the rally was switched around so Romney could make his big statement on the attacks, then pulled because they realized it would be at the same time as the official statements... then reinstated between the two statements anyway.

His speech is going viral because it's callously political and inappropriate and focused completely on an inaccurate talking point: at least, that is how I would put it. Reactions on this forum to it are a lot milder than I thought they would be.

(Oh, and this image...)

[Foucaulf]

I encourage you to stop reading the Drudge Report and just look at reactions to the Romney speech on Twitter. Easier yet, do a search on Google News; easier still, look at the photo I posted before.

(My apologies if I sound more hackish than usual but Romney's speech kindled anger on a fuel of cynicism, so to speak)