I think Mitt Romney has pretty much fallen into the “please, not him” pile for Republican candidates, along with John McCain. This is from an article yesterday in the WaPo:
“There is no work more important to America’s future than the work that is done within the four walls of the American home,” Romney said. He also criticized people who choose not to get married because they enjoy the single life.
“It seems that Europe leads Americans in this way of thinking,” Romney told the crowd of more than 5,000. “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.”
That was news to me along with, it seems, half of the liberal blogosphere. I can’t find a reference after a good bunch of googling. None of the comment threads I scanned quickly at Atrios or Daily Kos has a citation or even a hint of a source for such a claim.
I have no idea where he got this from, and I have found no indication that this is even remotely true in any sense of the word. I’ve tried other European countries, tried different contract lengths, tried a number of different keywords.
If Romney is just making stuff up, even by accident… Sorry, but we just lived through 6 years of that. I don’t think the nation can handle 4 more.