MItt Romney is a petty, petty man -- and he's got his facts wrong

In Mitt's speech, he's going to say, "Just like you, there has never been a day when I was not proud to be an American." It is, of course a veiled reference to a misconstrued statement from Michelle Obama. It's very petty, unseemly and tacky, but that's who Mitt is.

Also, Mitt is wrong.

There is someone at the GOP convention who didn't love his country every day. According to his own words, that would be the GOP nominee, John McCain. McCain said "I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company." McCain said versions of that repeatedly. But, he didn't become a POW til he was 31. Shocking as it is, the GOP nominee didn't love his country til he was in his fourth decade. Watch for yourself:



Now, that's not what McCain really meant, some of you are thinking. Well, it's not what Mrs. Obama meant either, but the Republicans are attacking her during prime time of the convention. (Funny, no Democrats brought up Mrs. McCain's drug abuse during our convention, nor the fact that Cindy McCain stole drugs out of the mouths of poor children in developing countries).

I know, we're never supposed to question anything John McCain says about America -- even when he says he didn't really love our country until he was 31 years of age. But, those were his words. And, he said the same thing over and over and over, so it wasn't just a mistake. Just for fun, imagine some Democratic candidate saying he or she didn't love America until they were 31. The GOPers would go ballistic. Ballistic. Look what the Republicans did to John Kerry, who was an American war hero. And, Kerry never said he didn't really love this country, ever, even when he protested against the war.

For the record, I have loved America every day of my life.