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Wow... now that is brilliance! I was actually trying to help Romney with sound advice, you know. His biggest problem with voters is that they don't trust him. When he makes false or otherwise intentionally misleading statements, that just gets worse.
Let's be generous and -- despite his pattern of lying, exaggerating, and embellishing -- say that he really was just speaking figuratively. Why would anyone who already harbored reservations about his trustworthiness give him the benefit of the doubt?
He needs to be much more careful about his choice of words, especially in prepared comments.