Romnesia

English Etymology en Romney Mitt Romney amnesia. Noun - en US politics of _ Mitt Romney A propensity to claim to have forgotten, or act like one has forgotten, one's past deeds and political positions. en 2011-11-22 Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics Ronald B. Scott Lyons Press 0762784628 http://books.google.com/books?id=C4PQA_ufe9kC&pg=PT46&dq=Romnesia When the Boston Globe asked Mitt about the incident in 1994, he provided a classic mind-numbing “Romnesia” evasion: “I don't have any memory of what she is referring to, although I certainly can't say it could not have been me.” en 2012-05-11 The bully's bully: Mitt Romney's consigliere Eric Fehrnstrom Timothy Lange w:Daily Kos http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/11/1090821/-The-bully-s-bully-Mitt-Romney-s-consigliere-Eric-Fehrnstrom 2012-10-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20130524165949/http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/11/1090821/-The-bully-s-bully-Mitt-Romney-s-consigliere-Eric-Fehrnstrom 24 May 2013 In a typical display of what Kossack AlyoshaKaramazov calls "Romnesia," the all-but-official presidential nominee conveniently couldn't remember the incident in which, aided by some of his pals, he attacked a gay student at his prep school and, while others held the boy to ground, whacked off his non-conformist long hair because "he can’t look like that." en 2012-05-18 Another dazzling display of Romnesia: Mitch Daniels says we're in 'peacetime' Jed Lewison w:Daily Kos http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/18/1092824/-Another-dazzling-display-of-Romnesia-Mitch-Daniels-says-we-re-in-peacetime 2012-10-19 The fact that Mitch Daniels apparently has forgotten we are at war in Afghanistan—even though he served in the White House when we began the war more than a decade ago—is a fitting tribute to the Romnesia that has infested the Republican Party. https://web.archive.org/web/20250123175608/https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/18/1092824/-Another-dazzling-display-of-Romnesia-Mitch-Daniels-says-we-re-in-peacetime 23 January 2025 en 2012-10-19 w:Barack Obama Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event — Fairfax, VA The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/19/remarks-president-campaign-event-fairfax-va 2012-10-19 If you say you’re for equal pay for equal work, but you keep refusing to say whether or not you’d sign a bill that protects equal pay for equal work — you might have Romnesia. If you say women should have access to contraceptive care, but you support legislation that would let your employer deny you contraceptive care — you might have a case of Romnesia. If you say you’ll protect a woman’s right to choose, but you stand up at a primary debate and said that you’d be delighted to sign a law outlying — outlawing that right to choose in all cases — man, you’ve definitely got Romnesia. https://web.archive.org/web/20130706160911/http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/19/remarks-president-campaign-event-fairfax-va 6 July 2013 en 2013-09-05 Poet Against Israel Timothy J. Callahan Bloomington, IN w:AuthorHouse 1481779656 418 http://books.google.com/books?id=gYzUAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA418&dq=Romnesia This is more than Romnesia / Or any other Romney brainteaser. / This is cognitive dissonance. en Anagrams en aeimnors Romanies romaines moraines rosamine Romanise rainsome Romaines romanise en eponyms