Mitt Romney was quick to repudiate-with-a-p the planned ad campaign tying Barack Obama to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, instructing the Joe Ricketts-funded Super PAC to leave aside the character assassination and focus on the economy.
The problem: Romney pulled the Wright card himself just a few months ago, on Sean Hannity's show. Here's the money quote:
I think again that the president takes his philosophical leanings in this regard, not from those who are ardent believers in various faiths but instead from those who would like America to be more secular. And I’m not sure which is worse, him listening to Reverend Wright or him saying that we must be a less Christian nation.
That statement and his statement this morning are not mutually exclusive: Romney could worry about Wright's influence on Obama without wanting a grim ad campaign about the subject. But he needed to clear up where he stood on Wright's relevance to Obama's presidency, and a reporter asked him just that Thursday afternoon. Romney's response: I'm not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was."
(Video via Buzz Feed, in case you missed that.)
In all fairness, Romney and all other politicians say 10 million things a day, and no one can blame him for not remembering his exact statement. Soooooooooooooo he should have asked the reporter to read his statement, maybe? Instead, Romney spewed out an Etch-A-Sketch worthy soundbite that confirms everybody's worst fear about him: that he has no core. Hell, he can't even remember the nonsense he says, let alone stand by it.
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