In France, for instance, I’m told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms [bold mine-DL] where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past. ~Mitt Romney

Frequently?  Who told him?  The tooth fairy?  This is a howler even for Romney.  Many have noticed this glaring, incredible error.  It not’s in quite the same league as Ted Stevens’ “series of tubes” gaffe, but it’s pretty bad.  If this is part of Romney’s vaunted Francophobia campaign outlined in his master plan, he might want to stick to blathering about caliphates and other things fewer people will recognise as false.