Mitt Romney caught a very tiny amount of flak for posing with a supporter and holding up her sign that said “No to Obama, Osama, and Chelsea’s Moma” [sic]. (Where’s that so-called “liberal” media when you need them?)

Now, can you imagine the maelstrom of indignation and rage from the conservative partisans had he held up a sign saying “No to Bush, Hitler and Samuel David’s Gramps”? (The first photo shows the woman holding her sign; in the second photo Gov. Romney is holding the sign up higher.)

Gov. Romney, already well-known for not knowing where he stands on issues, has done a classic back-pedaling dance on this matter.

His campaign started out by giggling it off as just a supporter’s “alliterative play on words“. (With the laughable conclusion that they “don’t think it was equating or comparing anyone”. Did anyone on his staff read it?)

Now he’s down to defensively telling people who are offended to “Lighten up” and that he doesn’t read everything he’s handed. (After almost seven years, America has clearly grown weary of the current president who also doesn’t read what he’s handed.)

All Romney really needed to say was “Sorry, shoulda read it before I held it up.”

But apparently Mitt “the flipping Pander Bear” Romney doesn’t care about the half of Americans he just equated to “Osama bin Forgotten”, which is odd since he’s always trying to say the right thing to the people he’s talking to (even if he has to contradict himself to do it).