Yeah, now that we occupy Iraq, it's considered domestic oil. (Not my quote, got it from a commenter at Reddit, but it's brilliant.)
(Romney with creepy Denny Hastert in Iowa.)
Romney is known for flip-flopping, just usually not in the same sentence. AMERICAblog's correspondent in Iowa, Marc Laitin, just attended a Romney event and, well, things got a bit surreal. Marc reports:
We're on the road to Des Moines after witnessing three different events and yes, still hardly any yard signs (even in front of the single family homes we've driven by).
We started with Clinton, then checked out Romney and finished off with Obama. The contrast between the Romney event in a private jet hanger, attended by approximately the same number of journalists as supporters (50-75 people total), and Obama's in a veterans' memorial building with 1000+ people was not surprisingly, quite dramatic.
I'll have pictures and a few anecdotes from Obama and Clinton later, but I wanted to bring attention to a rather strange comment that Romney made during his stump speech. He began a thread about all the great things that George Bush has accomplished, including lowering taxes (no surprise there) and then added that Bush has "strengthened our economy by getting us off of foreign oil." Huh?
Oh but it gets better. More after the jump...
Romney went on to talk about the fact that oil just hit $100 a barrel today and then something about how we buy a bunch of oil from overseas and that we need to become energy independent. It was all said in a very earnest and serious tone, so it all felt very true, but it can't be, can it? I mean, Mitt just told us that George Bush freed us from our dependence on foreign oil, so who cares if it hits $100 a barrel, right?
So what is it Mitt, did George Bush free us from our dependence on foreign oil, or not? As Stoller noted, most of the top Time Magazine reporters were in attendance. I wonder if they'll report this gaffe.
And oh, I did actually see some yard signs, they just were piled up at the Romney event. I didn't see anyone walk out with one.
