Then I just thought we needed to compare what a Romney visit to Britain would look like compared to the diplomatic fiascoes of Obama's visits. Maybe that should have been a separate post.
Highly ironic considering today's events...
Hmmm ...
Oh, it sounds like he farted in a crowded elevator, doesn't it!
But then we read what he, you know, actually said:
A GOP candidate makes some remarks which are as factual as they are innocuous and the press misrepresents them? Maybe the British don't have the experience with this common tactic that Americans do.
Well, the British media is awash with Romney's comments, Cameron's cutting response and Romney's numerous apologies, so 'diplomatic fiasco'? Pretty much.
As I pointed out, Romney said things that were neither untrue nor idiotic but Leftists are pretending that he did -- even forcing "conservatives" to react. It reminds one of how John McCain was recently called a "numb nuts" for going berzerk on the Senate floor about Michelle Bachmann without having read the letters that she (and other GOP congresspersons) actually wrote.
You see, the Leftists that control most of the news media -- well, most of all media actually -- have a meme:
1. Everything a conservative says is stupid.
2. Therefore, if a conservative says anything, it's stupid.
I see there's even a new thread dedicated to proving me right on this one.
Those pesky, leftist Murdochs:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/olympics/article3487608.eceThe point of it all being that Romney's currently on the softest, puffiest kind of foreign event imaginable -- visiting the capital of a longtime ally while they're hosting the Olympics, an event Romney has a strong personal connection to. And he managed to generate tons of bad press coverage for himself, at home and in the UK, in an entirely self-inflicted and preventable way.
Is Romney the kind of guy who, when visiting your home, tells you your furnace is inefficient and questions your wife's eagerness to have him as a guest?
Which might well be true and non-idiotic things to say, but you'd still be kind of irritated with him, wouldn't you?
