I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman...

...while I watched my dad courageously marching shoulder to shoulder with Martin Luther King against Bull Connor, the vicious dogs, the bullwhips, the cattle prods... How well I remember, I will never forget. It is seared seared into my memory.

Or so was the impression of courage I got when the delightfully presidential looking handsome Mr. Mitt Romney gave his "religion" speech on national television to the backdrop of a dozen American flags. Pretty big guy, that dad of his. What a man!

And what a man is the good looking businessman Mitt! He's got the conservative elite saying "No big deal", "He should have chosen different words", "It's figurative for heaven's sake, it's figurative", "There should be no explanation needed, MLK said his dad would have made a good president."

The guy lied, he lied on national TV, he lied on a much ballyhooed speech on "religion", and these people, "intellectuals", the cream of the conservative leadership, excuse him: "That's old news, can't we just move on?" And, oh ya... "You're a bigot."

Bill Clinton Did for the Democrat Party what Mitt is now doing for the Republican. "Lying is no big deal, everybody does it."

I agree with Ron Rosenbaum on this:

...now Mitt affirming... he was only speaking “figuratively".... But to say you saw your father “march”…That ain’t figurative. That's prevarication followed by disingenuous rationalization. I think it’s enough of a lie to end his campaign if there were any standards in the GOP primary race.

But there are none. The Republican party is ill. So many of the fine minds, minds that have mattered to me... they now are Bill Clinton.

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Politico has got this story:

Shirley Basore, 72, says she was sitting in the hairdresser’s chair in wealthy Grosse Pointe, Mich., back in 1963 when a rumpus started and she discovered that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and her governor, George Romney, were marching for civil rights — right past the window....

“They were hand in hand,” recalled Basore, a former high-school English teacher. “They led the march. We all swung our hands, and they held their hands up above everybody else’s.”

She remembered the late governor as “extremely handsome.”

And they've got one more:

Another witness, Ashby Richardson, 64, of Massachusetts gave the campaign a similar account.

“I’m just appalled that the news picks this stuff up and say it didn’t happen,” Richardson, now a data-collection consultant, said by phone. “The press is being disingenuous in terms of reporting what actually happened. I remember it vividly. I was only 15 or 20 feet from where both of them were.”

And there's this line:

Basore said she called the campaign, and the campaign supplied her contact information.

So, the now 72 year old Basore not only saw the two --MLK & George-- "hand in hand" but called the "campaign" (her account) and they gave her contact information. And this after Romney has already been video taped saying that in fact he did not "see" his dad with Martin Luther King but was speaking "figuratively". (He also in a 78 Boston Herald interview had said he, Mitt, had also marched with the doctor. But the campaign has admitted that was not so.) So whether the campaign trotted out these two old ladies to testify that what Mitt has already said was figurative was actually fact, or whether this is just a freelance testimony to the veracity of Mitt I don't know. But it doesn't matter. The simple statement "I saw..." should not lead to such confusions. At the very least it demonstrates that the mind of Mitt is very "diverse"... one might say.

If this continues to be handled so ineptly it may become Romney's Hillary Clinton illegal-immigrant-drivers-license answer. --Could be that differing elements of the Romney cover-up team are just not on the same page.