Following reports that he had cancelled a campaign event in Orlando due to exhaustion, Mitt Romney hit the gym this afternoon. [...] A Florida newspaper had reported Monday morning that Romney was “too exhausted to make the trip” to Orlando, which was to be sandwiched in between two other campaign events in other parts of the state. His campaign said earlier that the newspaper report was wrong in regards to Romney being exhausted.

Mitt Romney canceled one of his events in Florida today. The reasons why are unclear, and either have something to do with Mitt being literally too damn tired to manage even one more stupid bus ride to meet with the damn commoners in yet another stupid town, or not at all that thing I just said To be fair, gym muscles and brain muscles aren't the same muscles. In any event, the campaign is now saying that Romney is not "exhausted," so he's just blowing off the people in Orlando for the hell of it, and not for any other particular reason. I'm sure that'll make his Orlando supporters feel better.

Mitt doesn't seem to do particularly well when he's tired. When he botched the difference between "Sikh" and "sheik" in his condolences to the recent Sikh temple shooting victims, his spokesman said it was because "it was the end of the day." He called Paul Ryan the next "president of the United States" when introducing him this weekend, which is either a misstatement or a terrifying movie premise or both. All in all, it looks like Mitt Romney would be the kind of president who needs his crises to be carefully scheduled and happen only during normal business hours.

There could be another reason Mitt cancelled his event, though I can't say it would reflect any better on him:



Romney originally was scheduled to visit the home of Orlando attorney Adams and her fiance, Jeff Lawson. [...] One spokesman for the campaign said the cancellation in no way reflected any concern about Romney, who has positioned himself as a champion of the institution of marriage, appearing at the home of an unwed couple.

Yeah, um ... no. I'm pretty damn sure that even the ridiculous Mitt Romney campaign would be so institutionally prudish as to dodge an event because some folks are livin' in sin. I'm gonna give them credit on that one.

Reports are that Mitt will still be attending his $50,000-per-person fundraiser in Fort Lauderdale tonight, presumably because money.

