Was Mitt using sweeping figurative flowery words when he said:
“My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.”
Mitt Romney
That is his 1978 quote. I wasn’t there in 1978, but my guess is he thought King was in the march, because that’s how the story was repeated in his family. It was an MLK march, and it was for civil rights, and King had marched six days earlier, and his father had been invited.
But frankly, I don’t care what some 30-year-old Romney was thinking when he talked to some reporter in 1978.
Just as I hope nobody cares what Fred Thompson was doing in 1978.