

Video 1, courtesy of Mother Jones. Go to 4:00 for relevant portion.

This fundraiser video is the gift that keeps on giving. Josh Marshall picked this little nugget up first:

...Romney starts to talk about what he refers to as “the Jimmy Carter election”, i.e., 1980. He then goes on to talk about how the hostage crisis and the failed rescue mission Desert One were pervasive issues through the 1980 election. Then at the end he says that “if something of that nature presents itself I will work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity.”

Let me just reiterate this very important point for you: Mitt Romney is saying that if another international crisis occurs that results in the deaths of Americans, he plans to use that for his advantage. While Josh notes that he hems and haws a bit so it's possible this is another one of those "inelegant" statements, I think there's little doubt when you listen to it within the context. Puts his statements on Libya in a whole new light, doesn't it?

Last week, the Romney campaign was accused of exploiting the crisis at the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans — and this little-noticed section of the bombshell video has already drawn attention in that connection.

The man who thinks you should elect him as Commander in Chief is hoping for American deaths for his political gain. That makes the congressional Republicans hoping to tank the economy just to sink President Obama's re-election chances look like such small potatoes.