Outlets from New York to Politico are pointing out that a MSNBC clip that went viral on Monday showing Romney enthsiastically describe a sandwich-ordering machine at the Pennsylvania convenience store Wawa edited out the broader (though questionable) point he made about government inefficiency.
The Los Angeles Times' Michael Memoli has a very fun profile of Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday, focusing on his "everyman appeal," but some points in the portrait actually provide a neat primer—paging, Mitt Romney!—for talking about personal wealth with voters.
Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, Mitt Romney answered a question on a statement he made about Reverend Jeremiah Wright by saying, "I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said. Whatever it was."
We love how 7-Eleven's spokesperson responded to the latest non-scandal involving Mitt Romney saying wealthy-sounding things so much, we might run out and buy some cookies after this. (We're also hungry.)
There is reportedly a high probability that at any random moment during the day, Mitt Romney's internal monologue is going something like this: "don't make a gaffe, don't make a gaffe, don't make a gaffe."
Mitt Romney told a "humorous" story about his dad closing a Michigan factory, prompting the Obama campaign and others to declare it a wealth-related gaffe, but we're not so sure this one's going to give the Romney campaign much trouble.
Calling Russia our "number one geopolitical foe" in a CNN interview Monday, Mitt Romney rather unproductively distracted everyone from focusing on the critique he was making of President Obama.
Cartoonist Tom Toles toasts Mitt Romney's gaffes.
Senator Roy Blunt's bill to exempt employers from providing contraceptives serves no other purpose other than giving politicians on both sides something to point to when November's election rolls around. Mitt Romney, for one, was "too confused" to take advantage of the opportunity.
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