It also says he’s blaming a “trusted staffer” for deceiving him about the signatures. Is having judgment poor enough to trust a staffer who will engage in massive, blatant election fraud really that much better a Congressional qualification than being a corrupt fraud yourself?
Well, Thad, if you aren’t willing to leave your wife for this [del]male or female staffer[/del] (checking for the R after his name and finding it) male staffer* you have to expect hijinks like this.
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- Baseless libel that no one should assume is true.
That’s why we need voter ID laws, to prevent this kind of thing. I bet ACRN had something to do with it, too.
In his defense, I believe him when he says that when it comes to hiring staffers, he just has a wide stance.
Yeah, it’s even worse than it sounded at first.
What really pisses me off is, his Republican primary opponent is a Tea Partier who is running because he didn’t like that McCotter pandered to the left by voting to raise the debt limit. And this is a fairly heavily Republican district. Of the two Democratic candidates, one is a LaRouche guy and the more mainstream, party-endorsed fellow is so poorly known, that the Free Press switched his first name and last name in the McCotter article and hasn’t bothered to print a correction yet. So Tea Party guy has a pretty good shot at winning the seat.
sigh
More of a point-and-laugh moment:
“Romney can’t spell ‘America’” is as true and makes as much sense as “Obama doesn’t know how many states there are”…and hopefully it’ll prove as sticky.
The odd thing is that most people will tend to point and laugh and that’s about it. It won’t see equivalent usage to the 57 states thing. At the time, there were serious questions about Palin’s intelligence and fundamental knowledge (there shouldn’t be such questions anymore). These weren’t silly cat-calls from the peanut gallery. Between the point-and-laugh type gaffes were legitimate statements that showed a substantial dearth in intelligence and awareness.
Her “the Vice President is going to whatever” comment, for example. Though as technically correct as a broken clock, it demonstrated a fundamental lack of civics knowledge. There are many other examples that were rightly highlighted to demonstrate a shocking level of vacuousness. These had a point in showing the public how under-qualified she was. In between, just like any other candidate, were normal misstatements that amounted to political nose-tweaking.
The right, though, took the one or two such misstatements and attempted to draw a false equivalency. No one outside of the Freepers actually believed Obama thought there were 57 states. Yet it was brought up time and again to counter legitimate criticisms of her intelligence gap.
Will Obama go after Romney as ill-suited for the job? Of course, and his many statements as being out of touch will surely be highlighted, as they have substantive weight behind them. Will anyone really try and make a serious case that Romney doesn’t actually know how to spell America? Fox News certainly would, but fortunately for him they’re members of his campaign.
Romney himself didn’t misspell “America” – some techie app did. Who knows who programmed that or where it came from? And anyway, “Amercia” isn’t a misspelling. It’s just a typo.
And “57 states” was clearly a simple misstatement. That didn’t keep the Right from bringing it up over and over, now did it?
As a card carrying lefty liberal I will concede that Romney does know how to spell “America”, that he had little or nothing to do with this error and that it reflects almost zero on whether or not he should be President. It is funny as hell though. Of all the words to misspell “America” is pretty funny.
Doesn’t matter who programmed it because no programmer can spell worth a shit 
To be honest, though, “worth a shit” is three words and most spell-checkers only look at whole words.
Ah take offense, suh! Ah do take offense!
Hay!!:mad:
Moi aussi.
So is it your theory that an app produced by a programmer on Romney’s behalf is absolutely not newsworthy? If so, then all bets are off.
As a card carrying liberal myself, I want evidence that any politician can even read, let alone write or spell properly.
Hah, I wasn’t expecting that.
Guess it’s “not what you’d expect.”