First off, Mitt Romney never said HE marched alongside MLK.. he said his father did.
I know what he meant, and everyone with half a brain knows what he meant... which is that his father marched IN SUPPORT of civil rights in the early 60s.
It is how we speak... like saying "I marched with Gen. Patton all across Germany on the way to Berlin."
It doesn't mean holding hands and rubbing shoulders!!!
It means "supported" or "on the same side"
Mitt Romney haters had really better check their hatred levels. Their blood pressure might get the best of them.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/21/romney_never_saw_father_on_king_march/
Mitt Romney went a step further in a 1978 interview with the Boston Herald. Talking about the Mormon Church and racial discrimination, he said: "My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit."
Actually, in 1978 some reporter WROTE that Romney said both he and his father marched with King. When asked about the 1978 statement, the campaign said it wasn’t correct, that Romney never marched with his father with MLK.
Whether Romney actually said that in 1978, or whether the reporter in 1978 misunderstood, people will have to decide for themselves. Other reports from that time frame say his father marched with King, and now people question that.
I don’t really care what a candidate said 30 years ago about marching with King. The entire argument is absurd to begin with, and 30-year-old newspaper quotes are simply the icing on the absurdity cake.