When he sauntered back onto a flight on Saturday, he broke the ice with an unusual remark.
“What did they say in ‘Star Wars?’ ” he asked. “What’s that line? ‘There’s nothing happening here. These droids aren’t the droids you’re looking for.’ ”
Eric Fehrnstrom, his traveling press secretary, said it had actually been rendered: “These are not the droids you are looking for.”
“These are not the droids you’re looking for,” Mr. Romney said. “Sorry.” ~The New York Times
Does anyone else find it unusually strange that Romney is making offhand references to robots? I would love to know the context of this remark–what would have prompted him to make it?
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February 4th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Grumpy Old Man
We keep getting creepy robo-calls from the Gov.
The musical accompaniment is Hugh Hewitt, whistling in the dark.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Magnus
Unusually strange it certainly is, but not surprising coming from a man whose favorite book is Battlefield Earth. That fact alone would probably stop me from voting for the guy (if I were American, that is).
February 5th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Roach
If I were Romney, I’d fire that press secretary immediately. That kind of pedantic, disrespectful comment only makes the two of them look bad. Romney’s a bit nicey-nice, unlike many business guys I’ve known. It’s a major deficit; does he have the gumption to stand up to constant denunciations as a racist for supporting immigration reform? I’m not sure. But his major problem is communication, such as his style, his clothes, and his stupid discussions with media pipsqueaks that make him look small by comparison. There is no good reason to lock horns with these liberal J-School faggots.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:22 am
CorkyAgain
More significantly, it’s a reference to “Jedi mind tricks” — a hypnotic method for inculcating false beliefs.
February 7th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Smurph
If he’s referring to the fact that people have called him ‘robotic’ and ‘the Stepford husband,’ then I’d give him credit (but not my vote) for having a sense of humor about himself, or at least trying to. Only makes him more robotic, when neither he nor Mr Fehrnstrom recalled that the line was “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”
and Darth Vader had a self-referential sense of humor, too - cf “The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am.”