Thumbnail Thoughts - Foot-in-Mouth Edition

#1 Romney seems to put his foot in his mouth about once a week. Last month, one of his former advisors said Obama is benefiting from these gaffes because the media reports on them. This, he says, makes Romney “overly self-conscious, producing more gaffes”.

what eye thynk: I sincerely doubt that Romney is suddenly going to become a master of spontaneous speech, so what is he going to do if he becomes President, appoint a Secretary of Media Editing? (After all, the chair belonging to the Secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development will be empty.)

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#2 Last week, Romney’s campaign organization set up a meet and greet with three handpicked Republican couples at a picnic table in a Pennsylvania park. A beloved local bakery supplied a tray of their specialty cookies. Mr. Romney said they didn’t look homemade, “no,no”, but looked like “they came from the local 7-Eleven…or whatever“. Then he wouldn’t eat any.

what eye thynk: This guy is so socially inept that he doesn’t even know when he is being insulting. I shudder to think what will come out of his mouth if he actually achieves his goal of becoming President and sits down with the leader of another country for an unscripted discussion. Will his idea of being cute cost us an ally?

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#3 Remember Romney campaigning in Michigan? That‘s where he thought he would win the hearts and minds of auto workers by telling what he called a “humorous“ story about his father closing AMC plants--in Michigan.

what eye thynk: Yep, reminding people that your father probably put some of their fathers out of work is a real knee-slapper.

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#4 And we can’t forget this whopper: “I’m not concerned about the very poor”.

what eye thynk: This is one of those Freudian slips that tells it like it really is. To be fair, he did go on to say "We have a safety net there"; but his party is currently in the process of dismantling that safety net as evidenced by the House of Representatives passing the Ryan budget, a budget that makes drastic reductions to safety net items like food stamps, health care and early education---the same budget that Mr. Romney has called “marvelous”.

It has been nearly a week since Mr. Romney last dined on his own shoe leather, so he is due for another taste of thousand dollar footwear any day now. I, for one, can’t wait.