SO MUCH FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE

Screwing up the name of the state party chairman is probably not the best way to win over voters in a key primary state. But presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) again showed Thursday that he has a lot of trouble remembering names when he called New Hampshire State GOP Chair Fergus Cullen, “Angus.”

Maybe the Stepford candidate’s parts are a little more “aged” than the zombie hair leads us to believe.

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Notice how he didn’t even stumble as if he forgot the name and just tossed out the nearest place-filler. Instead, he sounded like he actually believed Cullen’s name was Angus. Weird.

We can’t remember whether or not he’s said Katon Dawson’s name – head of the South Carolina GOP – during a Palmetto State stop, but it would be interesting to see what his “Romney name” would be (someone needs to make a website where you can type in your Christian name and it will translate it into a “Romney name” – like with “Hobbit names” from the Lord of the Rings, etc.).

Jonathan Martin points out:

In fairness to Romney, the event last night came at the end of a long day and he was rushing through his remarks to catch a plane. And, yes, “Fergus” is not a very common name. But then, “Mitt” isn’t very typical either.

Fine, we understand.

But we have seen for more than six years how well it plays to have a president who butchers names, especially in dealing with crucial foreign policy situations. We’re just waiting to hear this guy from Massachusetts – whatever his name is – say, “I will make it a key priority of my administration to catch Obama sin Rodman.”

So rather than the RomneyBot’s Iowa poll numbers, as he says, “creeping up and creeping up and creeping up,” it may actually be a malfunction in the 20.07 version’s programming. Time for a recall!