If this was the case, why didn’t he just own up to having made a mistake? Instead he is going on about the definition of saw. I am not a Mitt basher, but can see the road ahead if this sort of thing continues. I thought personal responsibility was a prime attribute of conservatives. Just own up to the mistake and go on.
Frankly, and don’t take this wrong, but I’m actually a bit confused on what claims made here by the mitt-bashers are actually statements by the campaign, and which are just their interpretations of them.
I think it’s mostly people HERE who are going on about the definition of “saw” and “with” and the like.
But it’s true that often the mishandling of a response by a campaign is worse than the original issue.
If this was a matter of ANY importance whatsoever, that would be true here as well. But as we are talking about a minor error in a mostly true story, an error that made no difference to the story, or it’s meaning, it’s hard for me to take it seriously enough to do much more than point out how english is used in the real world.