Mitt Romney's awkwardness is so painful, so cringeworthy, that it almost, but not quite, elicits sympathy. That awkwardness was in evidence again today when he was apparently trying to refer to a "political football."
Here's the set up. Mitt was being interviewed on fox when he weenied out once again by refusing to say what he would do about the President's decision regarding the immigration status of people brought to the US as children. OK, that's not news. But how he said it makes one wonder what world he has lived in all his life.
In one of his many attempts to dodge the question he said,
"What I can tell you is that those people who come here by virtue of their parents bringing them here, who came in illegally, that’s something I don’t want to football with as a political matter."
Say What? I'm guessing the guy has heard that there is a ball called a "football" and it may be used, possibly, "in sport." He may also think that some politicians are "footballers" who engage in political gamesmanship. And maybe in some deep recess of his memory he has heard the term "political football" as a reference to that type of gamesmanship. But clearly he isn't very familiar with these terms and as a consequence what comes out of his mouth is "that’s something I don’t want to football with as a political matter."
Sheesh. That hurts. What planet has this guy been living on? How is it it possible that a person who has ostensibly lived in this country most of his life, has served as governor of a state and has been running for President and other offices for twenty years can't identify a doughnut and isn't familiar with the term "political football."