American voters may or may not have noticed Romney's failed trip but Europeans did

Time Magazine

After Gaffe-Filled Foreign Tour, Europe Asks: ‘Is Mitt Romney a Loser?’

The headlines may be embarrassing, but the fallout of Mitt Romney's bumbling foreign tour will wreak minimal damage on his presidential campaign

By Bruce Crumley

How bad was it? Washington Post editorialist Eugene Robinson called the voyage the “Romney Tour ’12 — Gaffepalooza.” French newsweekly Le Nouvel Observateur described it as having lurched “from failures to polemics.” Outraged over his second-guessing of London’s Olympic preparations, U.K. tabloid the Sun dubbed Romney “Mitt the Twit.” And French daily Le Figaro — a militantly partisan supporter of conservatives no matter where they hail from — on Tuesday ran a blog post with the headline, “Is Mitt Romney a Loser?”

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