Romney's Touchscreen Fail - Republicans AGAIN Try To Rewrite Reality

Well, Mitt Romney put his foot in his mouth again, and it only took seconds for the Right Wing Spin Machine to slip into high gear. At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Sunday, Romney displayed his total ignorance of touchscreen technology, expressing amazement that he could buy a sandwich by pushing what he called a "touchtone keypad". It was reminiscent of the apocryphal story of George HW Bush not knowing about the existence of barcode scanners. Romney is so out of touch that he is not familiar with the technology that is not in most Americans' pockets.

But never let the Right Wing leave reality in the real world. Already the Right Wing is spinning the story to falsely claim that Romney was talking about the superiority of the private sector over the public sector. But his comments had nothing to do with that. Unless he thinks that the public sector is still working with manual typewriters, this is just yet another example of the fact that Mitt Romney does not live in the same world that most Americans who don't have Cayman Islands slush funds and don't give their children $100 million dollar trust funds to evade paying taxes.

Another Romney fail is not really news. Another Right Wing denial of reality isn't news at all.

Article excerpt follows:

Romney Says Gas Station's Touch-Screen Ordering Is 'Amazing'
By David
June 18, 2012

It doesn't take a lot to impress Mitt Romney.

At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Sunday, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told a crowd that he had been astonished by a touch screen computer used to order food at the Wawa gas station chain.

"Where do you get your hoagies here?" Romney asked a crowd of supporters at the Cornwall Iron Furnace foundry. "Do you get them at Wawas?"

"No? You get them at Sheetz?" he wondered after several people shouted, "No!"

"Well, I went to a place today call Wawas, the candidate continued. "Some people don't like -- I know it's a very big state divide."

But it was the system of ordering sandwiches using a touch-screen computer that "amazed" Romney.

"I was at Wawas," Romney explained. "I went in to order a sandwich. You press a little touchtone keypad, alright? You just touch that and, you know, the sandwich comes up. You touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier. There's your sandwich. It's amazing!"

During President George H.W. Bush's failed 1992 re-election bid, he was criticized for reportedly being amazed after seeing a supermarket scanner. Unlike the Romney's bewilderment on Sunday, Snopes determined in 2007 that the Bush scanner story was actually false.

Wawa first implemented the touch-screen ordering system in 2002.