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(of Mitt Romney) tendency to seem to forget his past deeds and political positions
2011 April 4, Brian Rosman, “Romnesia”, in A Healthy Blog, archived from the original on 2012-10-19: 2011 November 22, Ronald B. Scott, Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics, Lyons Press, →ISBN:When the Boston Globe asked Mitt about the incident in 1994, he provided a classic mind-numbing “Romnesia” evasion: “I don't have any memory of what she is referring to, although I certainly can't say it could not have been me.”
2012 May 10, Alyosha Karamazov, “the fact that: (comment)”, in Daily Kos, archived from the original on 2012-10-19:He first claimed Romnesia.
2012 May 11, Timothy Lange, “The bully's bully: Mitt Romney's consigliere Eric Fehrnstrom”, in Daily Kos, archived from the original on 2012-10-19:In a typical display of what Kossack AlyoshaKaramazov calls "Romnesia," the all-but-official presidential nominee conveniently couldn't remember the incident in which, aided by some of his pals, he attacked a gay student at his prep school and, while others held the boy to ground, whacked off his non-conformist long hair because "he can’t look like that."
2012 May 18, Jed Lewison, “Another dazzling display of Romnesia: Mitch Daniels says we're in 'peacetime'”, in Daily Kos, retrieved 2012-10-19:The fact that Mitch Daniels apparently has forgotten we are at war in Afghanistan—even though he served in the White House when we began the war more than a decade ago—is a fitting tribute to the Romnesia that has infested the Republican Party.
2012 September 25, George Monbiot, “Romnesia: The Ability of the Very Rich to Forget the Context in Which They Made Their Money”, in AlterNet, archived from the original on 2012-10-19:
- We could call it Romnesia: the ability of the very rich to forget the context in which they made their money.
- The crudest exponent of Romnesia is the Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart.
2012 October 19, Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event — Fairfax, VA”, in The White House, retrieved 2012-10-19:If you say you’re for equal pay for equal work, but you keep refusing to say whether or not you’d sign a bill that protects equal pay for equal work — you might have Romnesia. If you say women should have access to contraceptive care, but you support legislation that would let your employer deny you contraceptive care — you might have a case of Romnesia. If you say you’ll protect a woman’s right to choose, but you stand up at a primary debate and said that you’d be delighted to sign a law outlying — outlawing that right to choose in all cases — man, you’ve definitely got Romnesia.
2012 October 19, Christi Parsons, Kathleen Hennessey, “Obama diagnoses his opponent with ‘Romnesia’”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2012-10-19:President Obama diagnosed his opponent with a case of “Romnesia” Friday morning but pledged to help solve the problem by reminding voters of Mitt Romney’s “severely conservative” positions.
2012 November 9, Everett E. Murdock, Obama Won, but Romney Was President: How the Democrats Targeted Electoral College Votes to Win the 2012 Presidential Election, Los Angeles: H.O.T. Press, →ISBN, page 239:Obama started using the term “Romnesia” to suggest Romney's new attempts to sound more moderate meant that he had forgotten some of the more conservative stances he had taken during the Republican primaries in order to get the conservative Republican vote.
2013 September 5, Timothy J. Callahan, Poet Against Israel, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 418:This is more than Romnesia / Or any other Romney brainteaser. / This is cognitive dissonance.
2013 November 21, Brett H. Lewis, We the Who?: A Citizen’s Manifesto on America, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 95:As President Obama stated during the 2012 campaign, Romney seemed to suffer from a form of political dementia called “Romnesia”—a very accurate description of Romney's flip-flopping.