# Has Romney apologised to Britain? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 19, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162 "2012-09-19T13:04:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/1 "2012-09-19T13:04:46Z")
Romney was not very polite about the British Olympics before they happened. They were a stonking success. Romney has been proven utterly wrong. Has he apologised yet? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/2 "2012-09-19T13:23:01Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Romney was not very polite about the British Olympics before they happened. They were a stonking success. Romney has been proven utterly wrong. Has he apologised yet? Why should he? As far as he knows, nearly 100% of the British people pay no American taxes at all. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/3 "2012-09-19T13:39:35Z")
Only Obama apologizes. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/4 "2012-09-19T13:42:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Has he apologised yet? [For what?](http://www.amazon.com/No-Apology-Case-American-Greatness/dp/0312609809) American greatness? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/5 "2012-09-19T13:45:15Z")
Yea, obviously the Olympic thing isn’t a big deal, but Romney basing his entire foreign policy around never apologizing for things seems like a stance engineered to bite him in the ass at some point down the line. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/6 "2012-09-19T13:46:12Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Romney was not very polite about the British Olympics before they happened. They were a stonking success. Romney has been proven utterly wrong. Has he apologised yet? I don’t know that I’d say he was “utterly wrong” (and the record clearly shows I am anything but a Romney supporter). Everything he said was true; he just shouldn’t have said it. To the extent that he should have apologized, being right or wrong didn’t have anything to do with it. Besides, if he hadn’t said it we wouldn’t have been able to enjoy David Cameron’s brilliant comeback. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/7 "2012-09-19T13:51:16Z")
“Yet”? Do you really think any politician will come back well after the fact and ask us to recall and judge them again on an earlier gaffe they made? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/8 "2012-09-19T13:52:51Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Yea, obviously the Olympic thing isn’t a big deal, but Romney basing his entire foreign policy around never apologizing for things seems like a stance engineered to bite him in the ass at some point down the line. I think it’s more about pretending they didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/9 "2012-09-19T15:32:23Z")
“There’s no kill switch on awesome!” (Dilbert!) ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/10 "2012-09-19T18:31:03Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Yea, obviously the Olympic thing isn’t a big deal, Well, he did manage, on a goodwill tour, to get the British Prime Minister to pointedly insult him during a press conference. That’s a much bigger deal than insulting a beloved local bakery during a highly structured “lemonade and cookie” roundtable. OTOH, it’s perhaps not quite as big a deal as calling half of the country freeloading deadbeats. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/11 "2012-09-19T18:44:09Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Why should he? As far as he knows, nearly 100% of the British people pay no American taxes at all. > 😃 The only benefit of an apology would be in how well it plays with the American electorate, or course. Romney has to decide whether apologising for an undiplomatic remark will win him more voters than are lost by being reminded that it happened in the first place. The British public, as you quite rightly say, are irrelevant, and will continue not taking him seriously no matter what he does. ---
**Author:** ![G-SE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@G-SE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G-SE)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/12 "2012-09-19T21:52:15Z")
No, sorry. Only Democrats go on world apology tours. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/13 "2012-09-19T21:58:07Z")
Poe’s Law in full effect in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-romney-apologised-to-britain/635162/14 "2012-09-19T22:17:01Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > Poe’s Law in full effect in this thread. Yeah I was about to say…