Sorry this is so short, but Tom Toles absolutely nails the hilarity of the binders comment with today's (Oct. 18) cartoon:
Tom Toles
To make this just a bit longer, I have to say that I wonder what his handlers do when he says things like that. Surely he cannot have rehearsed that answer, surely they would have told him not to use the phrase "whole binders full of women." The very first image I thought of when I heard him say "binders," seriously, was the scene from Titanic where Rose's mother was tightening Rose's corset. I mean it was instantaneous in my mind. I immediately thought of the restrictions on women. No politically savvy advisor could have wanted Romney to conjure that image. Do you think his advisors just say "OMG, WTF" over and over to themselves when Romney is talking?