Mitt Romney, Master of Confusion, Illusion, and Delusion

Mitt Romney lives in a world in which reality has no bearing.  Two examples:

1.  A SuperPAC supporting Mitt Romney, financed by TD Ameritrade founder and owner of the Chicago Cubs Jim Ricketts, recently began plotting a 10 million dollar campaign to tie President Obama more closely with pastor Jeremiah Wright.  For those who dislike Obama, they REALLY dislike Jeremiah Wright. 

After initially declining to comment on the story in the New York Times, Mitt Romney later tried to distance himself from the planned campaign with the following comment to the conservative TownHall.com:

"I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they've described," Romney said. "I would like to see this campaign focus on the economy, on getting people back to work, on seeing rising incomes and growing prosperity ... And I think what we've seen so far from the Obama campaign is a campaign of character assassination. I hope that isn't the course of this campaign. So in regards to that PAC, I repudiate what they're thinking about."

And from the campaign manager:

"Unlike the Obama campaign, Gov. Romney is running a campaign based on jobs and the economy, and we encourage everyone else to do the same," Matt Rhoades, Romney's campaign manager, said in a statement. "President Obama’s team said they would 'kill Romney,' and, just last week, David Axelrod referred to individuals opposing the president as 'contract killers.' It's clear President Obama’s team is running a campaign of character assassination. We repudiate any efforts on our side to do so."

A casual reader who didn't have context, might assume from these statements that Barack Obama supporters were the instigators of whatever the negative ad is. 
An example of spin in its highest form.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/jeremiah-wright-reverend-wright_n_1524505.html

2.  Detroit Auto Bailout.  I'll leave it to The Daily Show's Jon Stewart to mock him for this.

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