Ben LaBolt: $10K Bet Could Be Romney’s Grocery Store Moment

Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Ben LaBolt, Obama’s spokesman for the 2012 campaign, says of Romney’s $10K bet that it could turn into “his grocery store scanner moment.” He’s referencing, of course, the famous gaffe of George H. W. Bush’s when he visited a grocery store on a photo-op during his reelection campaign and expressed amazement at the barcode scanning technology. This was widely touted as evidence of him being disconnected from the daily realities of most Americans.

Latest Livewire
Comments
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Associate Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: