So I was going to end the day with a funny video because, let’s face it, this week, we all need it. I’m crabby, you’re totally fed up with the political system, the cats are hungry and the people are growing restless. Instead, I’m only going to begin this with a funny video.
Behold, Mitt Romney Goes to a Parade.
Its awkward. Oooooooohhhh, its awkward.
But that’s just the beginning. Mitt Romney, you see, is a robot. But not one of those Asimov robots that are supposed to help people and be all beneficial to humanity and stuff. He is, though, one of those robots who cannot deviate from a certain program. And in this case, his programming indicates that following every minor success must be a devastating and totally unacceptable, self-inflicted disaster. Which explains why, despite winning Michigan and Arizona by the skin of his teeth last night, he totally blew a question on the GOP’s most inexplicably important subject of late, contraception.
In short, I think he’s programmed to be an idiot. Which is fine, I guess.
The day after his bullet-dodging win in Michigan, Romney told an Ohio News Network reporter that he doesn’t support an amendment being pushed by Sen. Roy Blunt, a top Mitt Romney supporter, that would overturn the Obama administration’s much-debated birth control requirement.
Romney’s campaign is insisting the question was asked in a confusing way, and that his response wasn’t what he meant. The bill, they note, doesn’t ban contraception….
HEATH: “He’s brought contraception into this campaign. The issue of birth control, contraception, Blunt-Rubio is being debated, I believe, later this week. It deals with banning or allowing employers to ban providing female contraception. Have you taken a position on it? He (Santorum) said he was for that, we’ll talk about personhood in a second; but he’s for that, have you taken a position?”
ROMNEY: “I’m not for the bill, but look, the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a women, husband and wife, I’m not going there.”
What’s weirder here, that Romney was completely unprepared for what seems to be an apropos question on currently hot domestic policy, or the fact that he just totally agreed with the dude who asked him the question without even thinking twice? Has he not been paying attention to every cable news network ever? Or, like, the Internets? Or his staff, which no doubt should have long ago explained the religious freedom aspect in order to counter such inevitable mishaps resulting from being questioned by reporters who are ill informed…?
If he responds to that by saying, no, he really doesn’t, but he knows a number of media moguls…yeah.
Personally, I think he deserves a junk-punch from his communications director every hour on the hour until he agrees to think for ten seconds before he just says sh*t. If the only other viable option weren’t Santorum, you’d better believe someone on his campaign would have left him by the side of the road in rural Nevada by now.