Yeah, he shouldn't have done it and he should have known better, but I'm not gonna criticize him for such a minor F-up.
It really makes me sick to see how low the Democrats go each and every day to try and bring this man down. They want to bring him down to China Town. If I were him I would have given up the "new tone" a long time ago and stopped trying to compromise with people like Bob Grahamcracker, who is the former President of Florida, by the way.
At this point, the Democrats would need to hire a team of 700 full-grown Sherpas to drag themselves back up to the lowest common denominator.