Now would be the time for a line, “There you go again …” Mitt Romney, reeling from comments about his privileged zero point zero one percent status, again intentionally conflated the hardships his father went through with his own. Even the mainstream media can’t quite swallow this one without making a clarifying point:
(Sun Times) — My dad’s dad went broke more than once,” the former Massachusetts governor told 200 or so people who had gathered Sunday for the local Lincoln Day dinner in this southern Pennsylvania community. “And my dad learned lessons about the importance of family and of faith and had a great and abiding affection for this country — lessons he taught me.”
Romney’s father was George Romney, the former Michigan governor and president of American Motors. As his youngest son, Mitt Romney grew up in the tony Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, attended prep school and eventually graduated from the business and law schools at Harvard.
This makes perfect sense if you assume Romney is a Lamarckian.
In the last election there was Ah McCain you’ve done it again!
Um, you do have the McCain frozen foods company in the US of A don’t you or is that just an Aussie thing?
This time round with Mittens Rmoney, hmm.. sadly, nothing springs to mind. Etchin’n’sketchy maybe?
Rmoney’s rubbish there is not so much a strawman as a non-sequiteuer logic fallacy though I think, yeah?
See :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic)
I have a strong feeling that Romney will go down as another Kerry or Dole – utterly bland, flip-floppy, bad Presidential candidates who few today can really remember or have much tosay about.
Obama has a cakewalk now!
I Googled his views on evolution, and it seems you’re not the only one to see this connection, James.
I would choose the genetic fallacy over non-sequitur, but it is a tough call. Ironically the “genetic” part would actually apply correctly in this example.
“Of course I know what hardship is! My grandfather told my father who told me all about it!”
Yeah, how can he possibly be out of touch? I bet he saw a program on TV about hardship as well. Too funny.
At one point should we be allowed to call him Thurston Howell IV?
Seriously, Romney couldn’t stumble through a caricature of a disconnected rich guy better if he were Mr. Magoo himself.
Thurston was at least kinda funny in his detached way. BUt yeah, it’s more apropos than some would like to admit.