A towering intellect – I met him twice at book signings and once again at a National Press Club event. He suggested law school … so he was wrong once.

Who preps him?

But in his comments at a fundraiser Sunday evening with well-heeled donors (chief among them current GOP mega-moneyman Shelden Adelson) Romney promptly disabused anyone of the notion that he either fully appreciates, or is terribly concerned with the punishing realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In a salute to Israel’s economic growth, Romney compared the GDP of his hosts to that of the Palestinian territories as though they were just any old neighboring countries. “As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000 dollars, and compare that with the GDP per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality,” he said.

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Mitt shits the bed again:

But Romney’s campaign announced Saturday that it would block the news media from covering the event, which will be held at the King David Hotel [in Israel]. The campaign’s decision to close the fundraiser to the press violates the ground rules it negotiated …

But look at this dancing horse!

UPDATE: FLOP!

A  Closed Mouth Gathers No Feet [His Vorpal Sword]

Long-term project I was on ended today. It ended with a whimper, not a bang. In my spare time, I made this empty water bottle sculpture. Sort of soothing …

This should/could be harsher:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7_UewKZVIg

And this explains the Sir Steve Redgrave reference.

Should have waited until after he met David Cameron:

UPDATE: And the gaffes continue …