As I do every morning, I scour my L.A. Times for news to bring you, but sometimes the news is more amusing than it is headline-worthy. This is one of those times.
Two Times articles provided some entertaining tidbits, so I’m offering them up for your reading pleasure.
Enjoy!
“It isn’t good enough for the Republican to nominate Obama lite,” Gingrich told about 100 people at a Las Vegas country bar, some of whom smoked and drank beer during the morning rally.
So Newton Leroy Gingrich is calling Willard Romney a liberal who is just like that radical lefty President Obama.
A Romney spokesman accused Gingrich of “borrowing Barack Obama’s liberal talking points.”
So Willard Romney is calling Newton Leroy Gingrich a liberal who is just like that radical lefty President Obama.
“No YOU are!”
“Nuh-UH, YOU are!”
I found that to be ironically humorous and had to share.
And then there was this Moment of Typical GOP Hypocritical Projection from Willard:
“The other day, the president was at a Google town hall,” Romney said. “A woman came on and said her husband, who was an engineer, was out of work and had been out of work for a long time. The president was surprised to hear that. He thought engineers were able to get jobs pretty easily. And he found it interesting. How can you be that detached from what’s going on?“
This from the guy who isn’t all that concerned about very poor people, who thinks his $300,000+ speaking fees are “not very much”, who claims he feels the pain of being “unemployed”, who “likes being able to fire people,” who says he knows what it’s like to get a pink slip, who not only thinks corporations are people but believes banks aren’t bad people,” who thinks any criticism of him is due to envy, etc. etc. ad nauseam. Astounding, isn’t it?
This year, Romney rallied hundreds of supporters in a Las Vegas warehouse full of toilet paper and drain cleaner.
He should have felt right at home.
As for Ricky Santorum:
In a TV interview, the sweater-vested candidate was forced to answer for his tangential role in a sex scandal involving a former Senate colleague. Nevada’s John Ensign had an extramarital affair with a top aide’s wife, and his friend Santorum tipped him off that the aide was trying to alert the media.
That probably didn’t hurt him much, since voters here are a forgiving lot. But then — blasphemy! — he bemoaned the social costs of gambling, calling online wagering “dangerous.”
And it’s about time someone confronted him on his role in the C Street scandal. Interesting how we didn’t hear about this part of the interview anywhere else.
But what would a post about the most laughable Nevada GOP moments be without a Trump mention?
The week’s most surreal moment, not surprisingly, came courtesy of the garishly coiffed Trump, who on Thursday gave his blessing to Romney’s campaign. Romney’s aides, sensitive to criticism of the candidate’s wealth, tried to keep the Vegas out of their joint appearance — literally.
Workers walled off the marble-and-chandeliered lobby of Trump International Hotel with blue felt curtains, obscuring views of the Strip.
You can run (even for president), but you can’t hide. Nice try, guys.
And this concludes today’s random amusing GOP Nevada moments.
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