Conservatives Do Massive Facepalm Over Romney’s ‘Very Poor’ Gaffe

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29. I still think "I LIKE firing people!" tops it

if you watched the actual video, his passion when he said it, the stunned silence of the audience, followed by his long, long silence before he started babbling about being able to fire health insurance companies and stammered his way to choice. Not that any real people have a lot of choice about their health insurance, beyond whatever crappy plan their employer offers and none.

It really left only 2 possibilities: either 1) he stupidly thought he was making a big, bold statement, or 2) he had a freudian slip that left him struggling to come up with a plausible context to spin his way out of it. Heh. Take your pick.

Terminal Foot-in-mouth disease stupidity, or sociopath.