Romney: I'd Send My Family To Sochi Olympics

[DonViejo]

CATHERINE THOMPSON – JANUARY 24, 2014, 8:43 AM EST

Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday that he'd feel comfortable sending his family to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

“I believe the Games will be safe,” he said in an appearance on NBC's "Today." “That doesn’t mean there’s a 100 percent guarantee anywhere in the world today. But this is, after all, a dangerous corner of the world.”

Romney knows a thing or two about the security preparations for such a large event, as he headed the organizing committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. He told "Today" he believes there's never been an Olympic games targeted with so many specific threats, but "the level of security preparations appears to be at unprecedented level" in Sochi, at least in the secure "hard" areas where the Olympic events take place.

“It’s the soft places that you can’t be 100 percent certain will be entirely safe, but my guess is that Russians have done everything humanly possible to protect the Games,” he said.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/romney_sochi_olympics_safe_enough_to_send_family

[liberal N proud]

1. So are they going?

Actions are greater than words, so he truly wants to send a message, he and his family would attend. They can afford it and he isn't doing anything else.

I mean it's not like he works or anything.

[onehandle]

2. Hey, The Predident Of The United Stated doesn't have time to fly off on a whim!...

...heh.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Notice he said he would send his FAMILY

not that he would go himself.

" Sure, it's safe...bye bye, have a nice trip...oh, and sign this life insurance policy, k?"

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Hey, Mitt, just go ahead and do that. Put up or shut up.

Psss psss psss psss psss! Meow meow.