Brent, the difference is that Romney is running for POTUS. He's on vacation and he can't get it right. What will he do when things are on the line...like national security.
Mitt Romney might have thought it was eminently sensible in an NBC interview in London to repeat exactly what the TV networks had already reported on security at the London Olympics, namely, that there was room for concern.
Romney succeeded only in demonstrating how unbelievably shameless and partisan our "objective" media can be. The networks and national newspapers aggressively declared Romney had committed a diplomatic fiasco overseas and repeated London tabloid headlines heckling Romney with insults, such as "Mitt the Twit."
Here's what the networks said pre-Romney. On the July 24 "Good Morning America," ABC reporter Nick Schifrin lamented...
MARS ,SATURN,PLUTO,ETC !?
Mitt got it right you don't have it right...leftie!
National Security...Mitt will order all of our troops to render their arms and surrender to the girl scouts
of America...you moreoff ! You are absolutely are not ON..SO YOU HAVE TO BE A MOREOFF!