You surely cannot be defending this lie with that kind of logic.
“Standing with Ronald Reagan in his fight” can truly be considered a figure of speech.
“My father and I marched with Dr King” is far, far, from a figure of speech, and I find your denial very troubling.
I have previously been opposed to Mitt based on his flip flops on issues. (abortion,guns, etc.).
But, now I am beginning to doubt him on character issues. He is showing himself to be nothing more than a power hungry politician that will say anything to make himself sound good to “the people”.
Forgive me for inserting another “bash”, but perhaps his training culminating in his activities as a 19 year old, have become ingrained in his very being. I haven’t seen this as an issue up until now, but it is starting to be quite apparent.
Should he become the nominee, I will have to hold my nose and vote for him. The alternative choice would be suicide.
If it were Mitt’s only whopper, then the figure of speech argument might hold up.
Mitt claimed that he never supported Planned Parenthood, but he was photographed at a 1994 PP fundraiser.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/romney-attended.html
He claimed he had been a hunter “all his life,” but it turned out that he had only been hunting twice.
He said that he owned a gun, but it turned out to belong to one of his sons.
In a 2006 interview with RedState.com, Mitt said, “I’ve never called myself pro-choice.” This was after he said in his 2002 acceptance speech, “I respect and will fully protect a woman’s right to choose.”
He told Tim Russert that the NRA had endorsed him in his 2002 gubernatorial race. Turns out they didn’t.
It goes on and on...
I’m sure Mitt doesn’t intend to lie... he just can’t help himself. Hey, isn’t that the definition of a pathological liar?
Actually, if it wasn’t for the fact that they lived where King marched, and at the time when King marched, it would very MUCH be an acceptable figure of speech.
There were Hundreds of Thousands of poeple who said they were “Marching with King”, ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, during the civil rights era. But since everybody knew MLK wasn’t in those places, we all KNEW what they meant.
In this case, Romney was SUPPOSED to march WITH MLK, IN PERSON, but turned it down because of his adherance to the Sabboth, and instead marched 6 days later in one of those “marches with MLK” that everybody was doing all over the country.
But somehow, through the years, the story became that he had actually been in the same march. Broder, Mitt, others all said things that made it sound literally true.
And until someone actually decided to check, nobody knew the difference. Including in all likelyhood, Mitt himself.