OK. So now we know that, in 1978, Mitt Romney told someone he and his father marched with MLK.
That goes along with all the other stories, including the Broder book, that put Elder King in a march with MLK.
But we also seem to know that MLK was not in the march that the Elder Romney was in, even though they call it an MLK march.
Since in 1978, Mitt wasn’t running for anything, it seems that even in 1978, he thought MLK was in the march with his dad and him.
Still making the “saw my father” march literally true, but the “with MLK” not literally true, but only true in the sense that you are marching in concert with or in support of MLK.
That use the the word “with” is also common. How many times do candidates tell us to “walk with them”, or “talk with them”, or “join with them”, when they really mean for us to do things on our own that HELP them?
Fred Thompson even asked me to join with him on something. I didn’t think it was a lie.
Mitt’s problem is he COULD have marched with MLK. Since there was the possibility, using the term causes confusion, and he should have been more accurate.
Still, I don’t think something he said in 1978 is really going to be an issue in the campaign.
Doing?!?!?! Man, I have not heard these types of verbal calisthenics since trying to figure out what “is” means. Being an enabler is not becoming...
Just to point out -- his campaign issued a statement admitting that this was a lie.