“AJ Weishar” sent me a link to this article, explaining that Mitt Romney has adopted Sarah Palin’s standard answer to questions he hasn’t a clue how to answer. Thanks AJ!

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Thanks to Sarah Palin “All of them” has become the answer you give, before you quit your job as a politician, when you don’t have a clue how to answer a question. The phrase became famous in the Katie Couric interview when Sarah was asked the “gotcha question” what newspapers and magazines do you read? Here is her answer:

That same answer was used by Palin in the memorable interview with Glen Beck, when she couldn’t remember a single founding father. Here is the segment of that interview:

“Owned” is the word that comes to mind after Romney appeared at NASCAR and tried to pretend that he was just “one of the guys.” It was just last February when he was asked if he follows racing. Romney’s memorable response was

“Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.”

That answer has haunted Romney ever since. Although Romney is severely limited in empathy, compassion, and the ability to relate to people who don’t have stock to sell to put themselves through school, many view him as intelligent. A sign of intelligence is the ability to learn from your own mistakes. Until now we might have thought Romney was aware of the importance for a presidential candidate to learn from his mistakes.  However now we realize that Romney shares  W’s confusion over that old saying…”fool me once…you can’t get fooled again!

Clearly he is lacking in that category as well. If he were ever to appear at a NASCAR event again, the logical preparation would be to spend even five minutes with an aid to learn some basic information about NASCAR. Not Mitt Romney. In a question almost identical to the one in February, a reporter asked him who was his favorite NASCAR driver. His response was

“I’ve got a lot of drivers I like. Thanks.”

If Sarah Palin had agreed to do another interview with Katie Couric, I feel confident she would ask, or an aid would suggest to her,  the names of some newspapers and magazines, that she might pretend to have read. Romney, and his aids failed to learn the names of even a couple of the most famous drivers.

Given this lack of preparation, and Romney’s lack of foreign policy knowledge, we can imagine his first interview at the United Nations. It might go something like this;

Question: Which countries would the United States go to war with if you were elected President?

Romney’s Answer: All of them.

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Question: What additional sanctions would you favor if Iran refuses to halt production of nuclear arms?

Romney’s Answer: All of them.

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Question: Now that the Soviet Union is a “federation,” which of the 83 subjects would you consider to be an enemy of America?

Romney’s Answer: All of them.

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Question: Europe is facing a debt crisis, worse than any in history. Given the tumultuous economic conditions in Europe, which countries should the United States stop trading with?

Romney’s Answer: All of them.

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We can only hope that in November a reporter will interview Mitt Romney, asking him:

“What do you think went wrong with the election? What demographics did you lose?

Romney’s Answer: All of them.

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