My wife saw it, and she ain't a chronic Mitt booster like you, so I give her a bit more creedence. She was howling about how stupid Mitt looked as he YET AGAIN pandered to anyone he thought might vote for him.
Did you watch it?
BTW, and I hate when people drag their wives into things, but still, pandering is not the correct word to use for what he was doing. He wasn’t promising anybody anything. What he was doing is relating to the crowd, or at least trying to.
It was probably painful for some people to watch an old white guy getting along with a black crowd like that, a lot of people get really uncomfortable thinking about being in that situation and they assume the person they are watching is also uncomfortable. But if you look at the faces the people with him weren’t uncomfortable, or staring like “what is he doing”. They were enjoying his company.
That’s what candidates do, reach out to voters and get them to like them. Voter outreach, shaking hands, kissing babies, is not pandering. Pandering has a definition, this isn’t it.