The text uses a new term to associate Mitt Romney with having a selective memory of past events, and implies that he will do anything to make himself look better in front of the voting public, even if that means not admitting to mistakes made in the past. The picture is very unflattering, it looks like it was taken mid-speech on a cold, windy day.
The purpose of this picture is clearly to make Romney look awkward, unkempt, surprised, and unprepared. The use of the word Romnesia might be an attempt to create a new term for describing Romney's campaign strategy and undermine anything he says in the future by implying that it might not be true. It also implies that either he has a bad memory, or worse he is hiding something.
This is a really interesting piece of campaign rhetoric--I wonder if Romnesia will catch on? It's really hard to popularize a new term like that unless it starts getting major play in the media, so we'll see. I like how you point out the way that the image and the text work together--it would be much less effective if it was a picture of him looking suave and put together.
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