The Screwups of Campaign '08

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

Mistakes Were Made

Romney's French Boogeyman

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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters

Mitt Romney
February 27, 2007

"First, Not France" and "Hillary=France"

— A "leaked" playbook for the Romney campaign, which reveals an oddly earnest appeal to make France the boogeyman of his campaign, going so far as to envision the weirdly non-referential "First, Not France" and "Hillary=France" bumper stickers.


— Ana Marie Cox


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