Just as Democrats began to convene in Charlotte to invariably blast Mitt Romney for being a wealthy Thurston Howell III-meets-Gordon Gecko elitist, Romney decided to take a long weekend vacation during which he hopped aboard his motor boat and jet ski.
It's not a sailboard -- Kerry's optics gaffe. This is actually worse, especially when he just spoke to the convention about the high price of gasoline. Julian Castro was exactly right: he just doesn't get it.