So Mitt Romney “saw his father march with Martin Luther King,” eh?

Well, sort of.

According to what the Romney campaign is saying now, Mitt’s father, George, then governor of Michigan, made a “surprise” appearance at a small march in Grosse Point in June of 1963 -– several days after Dr. King led a much larger march in Detroit.

A spokesman for the Romney campaign says that the two marches were part of a “series” of events co-sponsored by Dr. King and the NAACP.

So, figuratively speaking and making a very wide stretch, George Romney and Dr. King “marched together” in 1963.

But did Mitt Romney actually “see” his father march? “I ‘saw’ him in the figurative sense,” a defensive Romney is now telling reporters –- while apologizing for any “confusion” he may have caused.

Did Romney really believe he could get away with telling a whopper like that in the age of the Internet? Any political points he may have scored by claiming solidarity with Martin Luther King have certainly been more than offset by the damage he has done to his already shaky credibility.

More and more he is being perceived as a man who will say anything to further his campaign for president.

When George Romney destroyed his own presidential bid by claiming that he had been “brainwashed” on the Vietnam war, he was derided as the candidate with “the jaw of iron, the heart of gold and the brain of mush.”

Mitt is evidently a chip off the old blockhead.