Romney doesn't have a bad week, he shows his ignorance

While some political pundits said that Mitt Romney has had a bad week, and while that may be true, the fact is that what really happened is that American voters this week found out more about Mitt Romney and how he thinks. With two quick statements, one on foreign affairs and the other on average American households, people have found out exactly how ignorant he is, while people around the world found out what a Romney administration would look like to them. And this caused Mitt Romney to have a bad week.
When most politicians have a bad day or a bad week, it is because they say something that either they don't mean, or say it in a way politically incorrect. But Mitt said exactly what he wanted, meant what he said, and said it several times. And in both cases this week, Mitt Romney got his facts wrong, which shows something different about Romney completely. In the second case, he stated that the middle-class in America make between $200,000 and $250,000 a year. But facts simply prove this not to be true. Data shows that a household making $200,000 would be in the top 4%, while the average American income is between $45,000 and $55,000 a year, depending on whether health care benefits are included. So why would Romney use such a number if it was so blatantly wrong? Well, two reasons spring to mind. First that's exactly what he believes, but also, this explains why the GOP is adamantly against a tax hike on those making more than $250,000. If you believe that this is true, then that tax hike that President Obama is proposing is a tax against the middle-class. It doesn't matter if the number is right or not, since they believe it to be true, it gives the GOP a justification for their beliefs.
Now while that doesn't matter to the rest of the world, Romney's thoughts on foreign matters certainly do, which made Romney's other lie even worse. While Romney gave a briefing condemning the Egyptian Embassy's statement that he said apologized for the small riot and attack on the embassy. But the statement never apologized for the attack, and the statement went out almost 6 hours before the riot and attack. When these facts were brought up to Romney, he simply said that the facts didn't matter, and reiterated his statement. This shows both a complete lack of regard for the truth and a lack of understanding how the world works. Think terrorists didn't notice that facts don't matter to Romney, much less foreign governments? Think that matters to Romney? These weren't just mistakes for Mitt, but a lack of understanding of basic facts, and a complete lack of caring for the facts. And that shows Mitt's ignorance, not a case of foot-in-mouth disease that causes a politician a bad week.