Want ‘a Better Amercia’? New Romney App Misspelling Goes Viral
- Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:37am by
Liz Klimas
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You have to wonder how many of Mitt Romney’s detractors will now question his dedication to his country. Why? Because apparently he’s a fan of Amercia, not America. That’s at least according to a recent gaffe by his campaign.
A new iPhone app promoting the GOP hopeful allows supporters to take a photo of themselves with their phones and superimpose a “Mitt-inspired artistic frame“ or personalized message that lets them share with the social media world that ”I’m with Mitt.” Slogans for the “With Mitt” app include “I’m with Mitt,“ ”We’re with Mitt,“ ”Mom’s for Mitt,“ ”Obama isn’t working,” and — the one that is getting the most attention — “A better Amercia.”
With Mitt app screenshot (Image: iPhone app store)
You read that correctly. Amercia. The flip-flop of two letters near the end has gone viral.
Mashable reports this “humiliating oversight” is made even more embarrassing considering that Romney’s digital director, Zac Moffatt, said in a profile about the app last week that it would be a “fun, easy way to showcase support.” Now, as Mashable puts it, the app is “a platform for ridicule.”
Here is some of what Mashable pulled together from the Twittersphere about the typo:
These are a few more we picked out:
Here are some actual customer reviews on the iPhone app store:
Reviews from the Apple app store. (Image: Apple screenshot)
Fox News reports that the Romney campaign has submitted a correction to the iPhone app store.
Let us know your favorite Amercia puns in the comments.
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Comments (79)
thegreatcarnac
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:15amRomney’s people better get with the program. Every little mistake will be trumpeted by the media..no matter how innocent it is. The media is socialist…just like obama.
Report Post »conservativejon
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:42ammaybe the app designer is dyslexic
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:58ammaybe they’re appealing to the Mexican vote….. Amer..cia…
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:04amThats what you get for trying to impress the idiots of this country. Need to connect with people on solid, constituional principles rather than emotion
Report Post »Slipstick
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:11am@Conservativejon: That’s lysdexic…
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:21pmThey should make billboards and hang them in all of the 57 states Obama campaigned in.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:25pmWhen a Writer MisTypes two letters in reverse order, it is a Typo… When a Reader notices the Error, his Mind should recognize it as Typo, but, if interpreted as a MisSpelling, the Reader is also in Error!
Report Post »nightlight
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:40pmYou know, this should have been an embraced “mistake”. Besides Amercia representing in a word the merciful charitableness we are known for- Mercia was an Anglo Saxon kingdom which was one of the last to surrender to French overlords…..
Report Post »red1
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:30pmAh, thanks for clearing that up Blaze. I saw that Andy Levy tweet yesterday and had no idea what he was talking about.
Report Post »mersey
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:01amDumb Republicans. Under Barack Obama, everyone knows it’s spelled Amerika.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:10pmTo err is human. To really screw-up takes a computer.
Report Post »DeVain
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:48amBig deal. It’s not like Mitt programed the app himself. Also, who HASN’T mistyped something?
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on July 15, 2012 at 1:00amBomama will notice, tho.
Report Post »ghostsouls
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:39amThis is all they have? Did Mitt Romney sit down and create this app by himself and put it up on the web? At least he didn‘t make a racial website for his campaign like obama did with African American’s for obama. At least Mitt Romney knows what gender his children are. After “coming out” obama has referred to his two daughter, not once, but TWICE as “my sons”. obama just made a gaffe saying Poland was executing Jews in death camps… POland wants more than an apology…. I hope they don’t hold their breath!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:53amConsidering Obama is trying to turn us into Amerika .. what’s the problem? .. and yes .. I am glad to see that someone mentioned Obama’s BIG BLUNDER ..saying that the Polish had death camps … what an idiot ..
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:28amSome young twit that Text’s all day long is like all the college kids – they can’t spell or balance a checkbook without a calculator made this app. I love it when they text me and say” Hay, c yu ltor” to finish off a txt. They see you call and will only text you back – pretty soon they will evolve into a non-speaking person in 10 to 20 years.
Report Post »scentofhope
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:38amMaking fun of a little misspelling as though it‘s indicative of someone’s ability to perform duties of the office of President, hoping that America will focus on that, and not Obama’s epic failings? Any port in a storm, eh Lefties?
Report Post »WhatDidUXpect
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:35amI‘d rather live in the United States of AMERCIA than in ANY of Obama’s 57 states!
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:09pmAt least I’d rather live in Amercia than in Amerika!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:25pmUSSA is not gonna happen on my watch.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:34amAt least Romney himself knows how many states there are. Trying asking Nairobi Barry that one.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:11amWe all make mistakes. Some of Obama’s: He’s gone to 57 states, and one to go;( huh?) Said Navy Corpse-man 3 times in 3 min.; Talked about, “here in Asia” while in Hawaii; This country build the Intercontinental railroad (went under the ocean?); talked about UPS doing fine, it’s the Post Office having problems (duh?); Couldn’t speak in Austrian (German?) Spoke about HIS Muslim faith;
Told he bowled like it was the Special Olympics (yikes); On a Memorial day he said, “he was there to honor fallen heros – and many in the audience today” (what?) Told that his grandmother is a typical white person (huh?); mentioned a tornado killed 10,000 in Kansas (12 people died)
So, before we fault problems with what a printing house did for Romney, let’s read what the master himself does on a regular basis.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:26amThat’s what happens when you hire a liberal from these union run schools. It proves Mitt’s point about needing to reform our education system.LOL Where is this story from so long ago (yesterday) OBAMA CONFUSES NAACP WITH NCAA AT MEDAL OF FREEDOM CEREMONY. Big difference between CONFUSES and somebody’s typo.
With no skeleton’s in your closet, the left has to run with these non-issues and make them grand. Really!!!! A dog in a dog crate (with a wind deflector in the front) on top of a car, going back 50+ years to dig up a bullying story (that may or may not have happened), his Bain relationship (when he was gone). This is the best that they can run with.
Congratulations Mitt, we’ll be proud to stand with you. GOP
Report Post »country_hick
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:26amOh, the horrors of it! Ranks right up there with Polish Death Camps doesn’t it? Wait…we Can’t mention that can we?
Report Post »firstHat
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:20amOh come on… it just proves that the campaign hires the disabled…learning disabled that is.
Lysdexics Untie!!!!
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:18amReminds of that famoous ancient Shakespeare folio title: “Hamlet: Rpince of Denmark.”
Report Post »roxy
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:18amA merci A
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:12amSure better to make a spelling mistake than when the left (Obama acolytes) and the other left (Ron Paul acolytes) spell America with a “K”… AmeriKa… and take the music of Rammstein and it’s message seriously.
Have see it spelled that way a number of times on The Blaze by Paul acolytes especially… as they are the the majority of America hating leftist posters here.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:16amI rest my case…
TIME_2_END_THE_GOP_IN_12 (A ron Paul acolyte in disguise)
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:06am
This is just the being of Campaign Destined to fail. CIA you have to be kidding me. Where is Alex Jones when you need him. The Republicans have made my job so much easier. Thank you. Can you say “ 4 more years”
Next time try [“Amerika”]
Report Post »Grace1798
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:12amThey are grasping at straws. How does this compare with Obama’s destruction of our COuntry? HELLOOOOOOOOOOO??? IF ………..MITT was not a REAL THREAT, you wouldn’t hear a word about him but they (Socialist/Marxists) and those who HATE USA ARE Threatened by HIM because they know he’ll do better than OBAMA and make them all look bad! Also, they don’t want restoration of USA, they want USA destroyed. THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:07amWell, our local attending typo Gestapo, BEST_PATRIOT will have another reason to break out his typo grading red ink again today. Watch out!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:01amHAHA Oh, how he strives for perfection! :)
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:31pmBest Patriot
Report Post »The missing Horses Ass.
TIME_2_END_THE_GOP_IN_12
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:06amThis is just the being of Campaign Destined to fail. CIA you have to be kidding me. Where is Alex Jones when you need him. The Republicans have made my job so much easier. Thank you. Can you say “ 4 more years”
Report Post »Next time try “Amerika”
EqualJustice
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:56amYou are so dellusional, seriously. How many different medications are you on, anyway?
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:04amI remember at a TEA PARTY event, this liberal and her kid had signs with AMERICA spelled wrong and they kept shoving it in all the photographers faces, even AFTER several people present asked them to “correct” the spelling. This is probably not the LAST time something like this will happen to Romney. Campaigns have a lot of volunteers and people who will sabotage what they can. It’s difficult to screen and watch them all. You know with Obama as the opposition, it will be particularly BAD. :(
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:11amOh, quit sobbing. To hell with Romney. He put my baby in hell. He’s not getting off scot-free.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:57amWhat the hell are you babbling about?
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:20pmGolden Mouse
Report Post »Your Babbling is really becoming Annoying!
(opps did I misspell anything)
Mike Benton
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:02amTime wasted nit-picking can never be regained. The DNC has to be really desperate!!!
Report Post »Tutis
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:55amSign me up for the APP. I am still with Romney. I still prefer Quayle and his “potatoe” to Joe Biden.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:52amDesperate times for the DNC means whatever they can find in desperation, run with it…
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:50amSpellcheck, wikipedia, a dictionary, a memory, an education.
Report Post »President Rongney had best get ‘em.
oneshiner
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:12pmHe probably hired a liberal Union run printing house. They are know for mistakes, which was probably planned from the beginning.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:22pmYou’re probably write.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:47amRomney is going to stay home. Trump will lose his power. Because I make the rules, nyah, nyah.
Report Post »Unomas712
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:46amThis is dumb. Who care, Romney didn’t type it! Unlike Obama’s 57 states…let’s move on shall we?
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:51amRight! Is that all they can come up with?? Pretty tame in my eyes.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:07amHow many TYPOS do you see every day? The left is just DESPERATE and proving it once again. I’m SURE they have many “MOLES” inside the Romney camp. It’s OBAMA & CO. Any doubt?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:22amDon‘t forget O’s “corpsemen” …. and seeing dead people on Memorial Day … and yes the 57 states .. what a classic …
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:45amRomney is satanic, and’s going to hell. Pelosi eyes. Paul Ryan, you can keep insisting he’s so sincere, because you”re deluded. That attitude put you in hell. Watch your attitude, baby.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:16amMoussiagilda,
Report Post »PRESIDENT ROMNEY will shine the light and help you see clearly. I have often seen satanic in obama’s eyes and maybe you will before it’s too late for this great country.
Try as they might, they can’t dig up any skeletons from this man’s closet. Is he perfect, I doubt it, but is he a communist intent on destroying our country, clearly not.
Rayblue
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:30pmWent right over Annoyingmooses head bone.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:42amThat‘s not quite as bad as the insult delivered the Polish with the POTUS’ gaffe on the “Polish Death Camps”….
Report Post »tradexpertbuysell
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:08amGaffe of gaffe is still Obama’s “military corpsemen”!
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:32amTRADE:
Report Post »Agreed…That‘s one that I almost hate to laugh about but can’t help it.