Presidential campaigns are so carefully stage-managed that few things are as entertaining as the mistakes politicians make on the trail. Throughout the 2008 race, check out TIME.com's ongoing chronicle of each candidate's gaffes, and then vote on just how big a screwup each one is
Mitt Romney
December 28, 2006
"I'm not going to weigh in. I'm still a governor."
—Romney, in an interview with the conservative publication Human Events, responding to a question about whether he was in favor of the troop surge in Iraq
