Tour de Gaffes Romney Flops in Europe

[xchrom]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/missteps-abound-during-mitt-romney-s-europe-trip-a-847421.html



In the end, Mitt Romney tried to find something positive to say about his European adventure. He said an important lesson he had learned is that "rejection of one kind or another is going to be an important part of everyone's life."

The remark didn't come after the Republican presidential candidate's snafu-filled European tour over the past week. He made it after spending two years as a missionary for the Mormon Church in France in the 1960s, according to his biographers Michael Kranish and Scott Helman in their recent book "The Real Romney". He only managed to convert 10 to 20 people during that time.
Fast forward to last week in Europe, and things haven't really gone any better for Romney. His visits to Britain, Israel or Poland didn't go very well. The result has again been rejection of one kind or another. And the candidate has only himself to blame for this gaffe-filled tour.

A Difficult Trip

It was telling that Romney's spokeswoman, Andrea Sail, was on the defensive right from the start of the trip. At one point she said his words had been "grossly mischaracterized," and at another she denied them completely, saying they were "not true". By Tuesday, his staff was so frustrated that one spokesperson told reporters with the American press corps to "shove it" after they tried to ask questions about his myriad missteps.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Something is SERIOUSLY wrong with this guy.

[gordianot]

2. I never thought of it in these terms it has to be true Mitt was subject to a lot of 1960's rejection

My mother in law used to tell the story of a neighbor who kept a bucket of dirty water by the screen door just for Mormons and Jehovah Witness. It seems the neighborhood had swarms of them. Old tenacious Mitt has had a lot of doors slam in face. I am sure this was the crucible for his people skills.

[leveymg]

3. Didn't we hear a lot of people saying it was just an act to firm up his limp redneck support?

Which was it, a dismal failure or a grand triumph?

Could it be both?

[TwilightGardener]

4. Yikes...Ann's dress, also a gaffe.

[yellowcanine]

6. What is wrong with a dress which looks like a fruit salad?

Could come in handy if someone decides to "fruit" Mitt and she gets hit with a ripe tomato.

[TwilightGardener]

8. LOL. I have now had a chance to study it in more detail, and it appears

to be almost a patchwork-type design of many different floral prints. It's hard to make a good-looking woman look this bad, but someone succeeded. It doesn't even flatter her figure, for chrissakes.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. What in the hell is she wearing?

[yellowcanine]

7. Ann doing the "brave wife" thing while Mitt just looks pissed off.

Seems this foreign affairs stuff is harder than it looks.

[DevonRex]

9. Thanks xchrom. That was a good article.

I hadn't thought about the number of Poles in Michigan until it was mentioned in this piece.

Now I really hope the Solidarity stance on Mitt gets some extensive coverage. And that it gets mentioned that Lech left the party and is a weird winger now. Nothing like a union man anymore.

[yellerpup]

10. Perhaps being a door-knocking missionary

for his sect and being rebuffed over and over (I really wonder how many knocks it takes to make a convert) contributes to his robotic movements and automatic responses. He is probably too rejection-callused to feel very much. When it comes to compassion, he seems to be able to 'turn it off.'

[lpbk2713]

11. BWAHAHAHA ... To sum up Mitt Griswald's European vacation in one sentence ...

"YOU PEOPLE can kiss my Anglo-Saxon ass because the lack of security was disconcerting. "


Link for ref: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/oh-mitt-romneys-awkward-foreign-tour/