Again, if he had just said “oops” instead of using definitions to explain it away, I would be fine with this. It may have been a family story to a certain extent. In fact, it could have been a kind of funny one after he realized the error. You, know, stories change over the years and all that. I imagine Paul Bunyan was once an ordinary man. Over the years, the stories grew and so did his size! The same can happen in families. He should have just been able to accept it was not as he had stated earlier.
I agree with you, but that oddly makes me believe his story — because if he had made it up to begin with (and was thus prone to lie), the clearly easy lie to tell now would be what makes most sense, which is what I thought was the case.
If he says something different, it would most likely be because the most probable explanation isn’t actually true, and he won’t lie about it just to make it go away.
IN any case, the Romney campaign staff did not do a good job for their candidate on this issue.