[kevkrom]

She is going to get hit hard on this gaffe

Deservedly so. This isn't some off-the-cuff comment that she simply botched (who hasn't at some point?) -- this was, arguably, the most important political speech of her life, and this is a major flub.

[RummyChick]

No, it was an off the cuff comment to a reporter.

Don’t think she said it in the speech but I havne’t checked.

[Pan_Yan]

and in one interview surrounding the official event she promised to mimic the spirit of Waterloo's own John Wayne.

Interview, not speech. That would have been much, much worse.