The gaffe reveals that he's triangulating as cunningly as ole Bubba Clinton.  He brought up Wright a couple months back, now some super PACs are shining a bright light on Wright and Romney gets to play the cool one and say "I don't approve of this" when in fact he did exactly the same thing months ago.

He's clearly trying to keep the Wright issue lit while simultaneously disavowing it, and apparently he forgot whatever phrasing his handlers had coached him on prior to talking to this reporter.

Thanks to an ad campaign that will no longer even happen, the presidential race's topic of the day is Reverend Jeremiah Wright and, more specifically, Mitt Romney's difficulty deciding whether Wright's relationship with President Obama is a legitimate issue. After the Times broke word of the prospective Wright ads this morning, Romney told Town Hall that he "repudiate[s] the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they've described." Romney's campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, also released a statement proclaiming, "Gov. Romney is running a campaign based on jobs and the economy, and we encourage everyone else to do the same."

And yet, back in February on Sean Hannity's radio show, Romney himself criticized Obama for "listening to Reverend Wright." You can see there's something of a message clash here. So, at a press conference this afternoon, inquiring minds wanted to know: Does Romney still stand by his remarks to Hannity? Romney concurred, in a most Seussian fashion, that he does:

    "I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was."