They already do. Federal government regularly fails spectacularly and it regularly costs us taxpayers billions. And so do local, state, municipal, etc. governments. Presenting it as if this is some unheard of failure that disqualifies everybody involved including the candidate is silly. A lot of successful websites failed, many multiple times and for prolonged period, despite employing top talent and spending millions on them. Failure is always an option.

Yes, people who make mistakes can still run the entire USA. It has been done before.

This kind of false equivocation is dishonest and intellectually lazy.

I disagree. His point is very valid.

His use of "mistakes" is a verbal fallacy called equivocation. Not all mistakes are the same.

wikipedia: Equivocation ("to call by the same name") is classified as both a formal and informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense

This "mistake" is what most people would call 'utter incompetence'.

"Utter incompetence" is composed of more than one mistake.

Well, one could argue that there were a few other mistakes, some quite public, that Romney made leading to the election.

Sure, but the poster said "this" mistake.

I don't know about you but there were days when I was trying to get a web app to support IE6 that I was envious of how easy the president has it.

Heck, I remember a Republican candidate who was amazed by the scanner at the supermarket checkout.

You remember a report. Or a report of a report. The reporter wasn't even there.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp

If you're the prez and express a significant reaction to common scanner technology that's 12 years old, that's news, whether it's "amazed" or "curious".

Aren't you amazed by the scanner at a supermarket checkout? Omnidirectional laser scanners are a thing of beauty. (Yes I'm serious).