Romney vs the French
May. 10th, 2007 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petardierWillard (Mitt) Romney visits Regents U, provider of devout, unindicted co-conspirators to the US government since 2001. When you're visiting Pat Robertson U, it's apparently the tradition to say something crazy - it make Pat feel less lonely.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501081.html
What was Romney's contribution? He claimed that, "In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past.". This is not unexpected; a Romney campaign document leaked several months ago did indicate he planned to run against the French as well as his fellow presidential candidates.*
Some have claimed Romney mistook an Orson Scott Card novel for reality, but it seems much more likely that this is Mitt's kooky attempt to bash two favorite Rethuglican targets with one smear. He's most likely referring to the PACS or pacte civil de solidarité - France's solution to the gay marriage question.
More on the PACS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacte_civil_de_solidarit%C3%A9
Willard, it need hardly be said, is quite wrong about this arrangement being common.
*No, I am not making this up.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501081.html
What was Romney's contribution? He claimed that, "In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past.". This is not unexpected; a Romney campaign document leaked several months ago did indicate he planned to run against the French as well as his fellow presidential candidates.*
Some have claimed Romney mistook an Orson Scott Card novel for reality, but it seems much more likely that this is Mitt's kooky attempt to bash two favorite Rethuglican targets with one smear. He's most likely referring to the PACS or pacte civil de solidarité - France's solution to the gay marriage question.
More on the PACS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacte_civil_de_solidarit%C3%A9
Willard, it need hardly be said, is quite wrong about this arrangement being common.
*No, I am not making this up.
