Mitt Romney does not know where Iran and Syria are.

[Coyotl]

This could well be the defining statement by Romney tonight, after the fervor about Obama's great performance finally subsides a bit:



WOW Mittens, missed a few geography lessons lately? Maybe a community college class coming up in January will assist you,
prepare you for the cavalry charge in 2016

[oldhippydude]

1. found it Iranic...

he could not carry on a Syrias foreign policy...

[Coyotl]

2. This is going viral on Facebook

1,652 shares in about an hour

[regnaD kciN]

12. The Obama campaign needs to make a big enough deal about this...

...that it will start getting some notice on national news programs. This could go a long way toward deflating Rmoney's desired image of professionalism and competence.

[drnb]

13. Romney actually got this right ...

That would not be such a good idea. Romney seems to have actually gotten this right, he merely left off "Mediterranean". Iran and Syria have a naval accord. Iran is building a naval base is Syria.

[KurtNYC]

14. No he didn't get it right -- Iran is not an Arab country and they have no contiguous border w/Syria!

Mitt Romney's Nonsensical Middle-East Geography



http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/10/romney-iran-syria-route-sea-map.html

[drnb]

18. You don't need land route or shared border when you have naval base

You don't need a land route or shared border when you have a permanent naval base. Such a base in Syria gives Iran the opportunity to forward deploy ships on the Mediterranean Sea for extended durations. To resupply, refuel, rearm, conduct patrols from and return to this Syrian base. Much like the US Navy does from bases in NATO countries that have Mediterranean coasts.

[myrna minx]

27. Don't blame Mittens, Buster Bluth is his cartographer.

[RepublicansRZombies]

34. it should! God help us keep this brain dead rock out of the white house

:pray:

[redStateBlueHeart]

3. I wonder if he even knows what the national language of Iran is...

He probably thinks it's Arabic, just like Gingrinch. Mitt pretty much fails whenever he pretends to know anything about foreign policy

[oldhippydude]

6. yep he just proved in Iranian geography..

he's a sea student...

[Surya Gayatri]

4. But, but, Iran is landlocked and needs the Syria "corridor"

in order to have access to the sea, don't cha know?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. And that statement sounds rehearsed at that

"Syria is Iran's route to the sea". It doesn't sound like something off the top of his head. I think it sounds like something an adviser told him to say and that he mindlessly parroted.

[CTyankee]

7. probably that idiot dan senor. I'll bet he won't be cock walking on Morning Joe tomorrow...

[malaise]

17. Ha

[Coyotl]

21. He extemporized that and got it completely wrong. Ignorance requires improvizing

Romney would have been better off if he didn't have to talk

Don't make excuses for the man. He doesn't know where the Middle East countries are situated. End of story, end of campaign!

[RepublicansRZombies]

30. "He doesn't know where the Middle East countries are situated. End of story, end of campaign!"

It certainly should be!!

If only we had a functioning media....

[loyalsister]

8. Romney must have been playing battleship in the bathtub

wishing he knew how to play Chess or Risk

[Coyotl]

28. Actually, he is a member of the Flatland Society

In Flatland women are simple line-segments, while men are regular polygons. Romney is a member of the social caste of gentlemen, a society of geometric figures who understand the implications of life in two dimensions. He wants to visit the one-dimensional world, the Muslim Nations, and convince them of the second dimension but finds that it is essentially impossible when you can't find the countries on a map first.

[loyalsister]

38. I would think that he would need considerable mentoring there

We all thought of Bush as dumb. I wouldn't have expect such idiocy from romney.

[mwdem]

9. I don't think his supporters even care.

They just want Obama out.

[Coyotl]

22. But, the independents and undecideds do care, and they swing the election every time.

This is not about changing the minds of the decided.

[pokerfan]

10. He needs a bigger map

His view is very Israel-centric and he probably honestly thought Iran was land-locked:

[RepublicansRZombies]

32. exactly

but even then, what about Iraq? Doesn't the US have troops, or contractors or 'security forces' in the way there?

[pokerfan]

36. I think you mean Egypt

If you subscribe to the Faux version of cartography...

[KurtNYC]

16. Also, Iran is not an Arab country -- they are Aryan (hence the name "Iran")

[Princess Turandot]

19. He was probably using the infamous FOX News map which flipped Iran and Iraq (label-wise)..

putting Iran next to Syria! (I realize Iraq has a section of coastline on the Gulf but it's small.)

[DetlefK]

20. Does "Straight of Hormuz" ring a bell?

[Coyotl]

23. You mean Qatar?

[eppur_se_muova]

24. He prepped for the debate with Fox News maps .... nt

[-LOKI -BAD FOR YA]

25. romney is talking to his base ,be careful you do not go far you my fall off n\t

[Coyotl]

26. These two are a natural combination: Romney/Upton 2016

Romney/Upton 2016
Believe in Maps

[hifiguy]

29. Derpy Hooves wouldn't have got that one wrong.

Which is saying something.

[WinkyDink]

31. I think this was not just a blunder but was/ought to be a DEFINING MOMENT that we should use in ads.

[RepublicansRZombies]

33. according to the article he says it all the time

just clueless

[RepublicansRZombies]

35. if you back it out more....

[HopeHoops]

37. Yes, but he can see them from his car elevator.