This is a reacher, Charles. How does Mitt saying the same thing, only saying it worse from the "figurative" spin standpoint, buttress the claim that "everyone" believed King was there? You're still stuck with Mitt, and a host of contemporary newspaper articles that say otherwise. All it supports is that Mitt has been telling a straight lie and not a figurative truth.
I'm one of those people who wondered why Romney hadn't said it earlier if it was true, back when the Romneyites were still pushing that assertion, but I never tied it in to what George Romney's lifespan was or what he went around saying, since Mitt vouched for it on his own personal experience and what he witnessed was either true or false.
Even if George Romney was telling the same story in 1978, that is, LYING, since he would have known the truth on something like that, it does Mitt no favors because Mitt got in trouble for claiming this was a personal experience of his, something he witnessed, participated in. If he just said his dad marched with King people could take that as an honest error.
“everybody” is a figurative term, regarding those people who had an interest in the subject. In fact, the claim was made twice, and nobody has presented a SINGLE article, contemporary or otherwise, that refuted those two claims until this month.
But I think I’ve made my argument, and you’ve made yours, and I’ve got nothing to add.
We went through a similar argument a couple of months ago about Fred’s work for an abortion client, and whether what Fred said about it was literally correct or not. I applied the same principle to that as I do here, and gave him a pass, just as I gave him a pass on his obfuscation about the Terri Shaivo case.