Mitt Romney visits London while stumbling on almost every front, renders officials "speechless"

[Liberal_in_LA]

Mitt Romney visits London while stumbling on almost every front

The Obama campaign could scarcely have thought of a better outcome for Mitt Romney's first UK visit as presumptive nominee

If Barack Obama were dreaming up the ideal start to Mitt Romney's first overseas visit as the presumptive Republican nominee, the president might wonder whether his rival could offend the US's historic transatlantic ally.

That would obviously be rejected as impossibly ambitious, so the president might then ask himself whether Romney would fail to remember the name of one of his hosts in London.

Surely a successful businessman would never make such a basic error. So the president would wonder whether Romney would breach convention by saying in public that he met the head of MI6, Britain's overseas intelligence agency.

To the undoubted joy of the White House, Romney stumbled on all those fronts in London on Thursday, the first day of his visit to three of the US's closest allies - Britain, Israel and Poland.

Downing Street, which had gone to great lengths to give Romney the red carpet treatment without breaching strict protocol rules, was astonished when he questioned whether London was capable of running a successful Olympics. In an interview with NBC after his arrival in London, Romney said it was "disconcerting" that the Olympics organizers had encountered difficulties over security. One Whitehall source described Romney's remarks as a "total shocker" that had rendered officials "speechless".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/26/mitt-romney-gaffes-uk-visit?newsfeed=true

[MrSlayer]

1. What a bumbling fool.

I'm surprised that he is as stupid as this. How can one go so far in life being this obtuse? It's infuriating really.

[Fumesucker]

2. Connections and venality..

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Member of the lucky sperm club

He's been riding daddy's coattails since he came out of his mother's womb.

[DearAbby]

5. He employed others to be diplomatic

can't expect a person who would take five others and corner another person to shear off his hair to be diplomatic. That is what you pay others to do.

[nc4bo]

4. Mitt Romney's Most Excellent misAdventure.

What a hoot, get Sarah to write it on her hand, Bristol to proofread all three pages. Trig, Track, Tiggle whatever can draw the pictures.

Best seller to "that" crowd!

If Americans aren't horrified by now.........

[DCBob]

6. I suspect soon the Rmoney campaign will restrict media access.

and only allow photo ops and prepared statements and no questions.

[Z_I_Peevey]

9. So they'll go the Full Dubya? n/t

[JBoy]

10. More like Full Palin.

[Whiskeytide]

7. Where are his handlers?

WTF. I've been reading this stuff all day. Does Rove think a pissing match with Great Britian will help rmoney with his base? (They ARE a bunch of damn socialists ... so Hell, I guess it might). Why doesn't someone in his campaign cut his mic and say "STFU and just wave and smile"?

[Johonny]

8. His handlers are to busy explaining how special and Anglo-Saxon our ties to England are

at the same time telling us not to believe those lying inferior foreign press people.

[yellowcanine]

11. PM Cameron, " "Of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere,..."

Oh double ouch. This has to be the worst overseas performance of any presidential candidate in modern history. Poor Mitt failed to realize that the Brits are THE masters of political rhetoric. This ain't no Republican candidate debate.

[undeterred]

12. Does he know that the Brits don't vote in our elections?

[lpbk2713]

13. Where is Ann Richards when we need her?

"Poor Mitt. He can't help it. He was
born with a silver foot in his mouth."





Gone too soon.