Romney Sr. As Forrest Gump?
December 21, 2007 on 8:31 am | In Race for Prez |For anyone who’s been following Mitt Romney and his now- “figurative” claim that he “saw his father march with Martin Luther King,” this is LOL funny. Sorry, Jake.
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haha…. too funny. the word “saw” is a little bit tricky now.
“I saw mommy kissing santa claus”
“I saw three ships come sailing in”
Those Christmas Carols are all a lie.
Comment by fred — December 21, 2007 #
Yup. It all depends on what your definition of ” is ” is. ” Saw ” that is.
Comment by Terrence McCarthy — December 21, 2007 #
No worries. When you finally right something positive about any candidate I know which one it will be!
Comment by Jake — December 21, 2007 #
Candidates are at their worst when they are defensive; and that goes for almost all of them. Why couldn’t he just say he screwed up? Embroidered a childhood memory. Now it will dog him for weeks.
Comment by Peter Halle — December 21, 2007 #
Hmm .. Jake, I’m trying to figure out which candidate you think I’ll endorse. I have written positive things about Richardson, be he’s really running for VP. I’m also fond of Ron Paul but he’s kind of a wack job.
I’ve got it: Scott Ott for prez! I tell you what, though: if it’s Huck v Obama, you and I will be voting for the same guy.
Comment by Terry — December 21, 2007 #
Well, guys, you know this is all really about figures of speech. Thanks to Wikipedia’s excellent list of definitions of figures of speech, we can now determine just what Romney (or his speechwriter) really was up to. Was he engaging in:
1. auxesis: A form of hyperbole, in which a more important sounding word is used in place of a more descriptive term
or
2. metonymy: Substitution of a word to suggest what is really meant
So, while Romney clearly had a solid rhetorical basis for saying what he said, somehow I do not think that claiming that he had used a figure of speech (especially when the choice of figures of speech is between two that most English profs would choke over) would play well with red meat Republicans.
Comment by Geoff Brown — December 21, 2007 #
It’s just the typical political posturing. Romney’s trying to make himself look better.
Auxesis. I like that word; going to have to use it sometime soon.
Comment by Amy — December 21, 2007 #
In a 1978 interview with the Boston Herald, talking about the Mormon Church and racial discrimination, Mitt Romney said: “My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.”
Comment by Tom Cowgill — December 22, 2007 #
Miit’s resume building: shades of Al Gore 2000. This is how you lose elections.
Comment by Terry — December 22, 2007 #
Veni, vidi…
V.P.?
Watch out, Mitt. You might be setting yourself up to be not Numero Uno, but Numero Dos. Shades of Gore, indeed.
Comment by Terrence McCarthy — December 22, 2007 #