"For Romney, the first blaring sign that his reaction to the assault on the consulate in Benghazi had badly missed the mark was the application of the phrase 'Lehman moment' to his press availability on the morning of September 12. Here was America under attack, with four dead on foreign soil. And here was Romney, defiantly refusing to adopt a tone of sobriety, solemnity, or seriousness, instead attempting to score cheap political points, doubling down on his criticism from the night before that the Obama administration had been 'disgraceful' for 'sympathiz[ing]' with the attackers—criticism willfully ignoring the chronology of events, the source of the statement he was pillorying, the substance of the statement, and the circumstances under which it was made." -- John Heileman, writing in the New Yorker. His full article is here.
As a Rethuglican source notes in the article, Willard "The Smirker" Rommey's craven performance shows "his candidacy as serving no higher purpose than his ambition."
