In a speech at a fundraiser in Virginia last night, Mitt Romney talked about the "We Stand United" lapel pin he had created for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, and used it as an example of how he's going to bring Americans together if elected as president:
ROMNEY: And so we created a little pin and we notified people that we’re now going to be selling these pins and the proceeds are going to go [to charity]. … I just remember going downstairs after it was announced — we were in a big, tall skyscraper in Salt Lake City, and it must have been next door I think where they were selling these pins, and there was a line all the way down the street.
But there's one problem: the pins were made in China!
Complicating Romney’s patriotic message is the fact that the pins were made in China, according to a website run by the Utah state government’s culture department, as TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro pointed out on Twitter.
Think Progress
He simply cannot help himself. It is what he believes. Destroying American jobs by outsourcing and enriching the investor class is what Mr. Romney has always been about. He will bring Americans together on the unemployment line.
Romney's patriotism, outsourced to China. There's an ad in there somewhere. :-)