Oooooh! That Ron Paul guy and his crazy supporters are busy, busy, busy! Butt, you know, still in the background. . .
SOMEWHERE IN NEBRASKA — The Nebraska State Republican Convention is going down this weekend, and the Willard Romneys are taking a stab at appealing to rural Nebraskans by, what else— pretending to look, walk, and talk just like Iowans them.
It was senior staffer Bradley Swillingham who suggested they don “farmer suits” and sit through hours of make-up to appear more down-home and folksy. But it was Willard his own self who came up with the sociably vicious dog-whistle touch of some fried chicken forked-up nice and friendly-like on their “pitch” fork.
So did ya get his pitch? Here it is, shorter: “I submit to you this: If you want a president who is going to make things better in the African American Iowan Nebraskan community by getting rid of the free stuff, you are looking at’im. And I have never heard of Bain Capital whatever.”
Let Rachel Maddow fill you in…
Apologies to Grant Wood, whose iconic painting “American Gothic” is one of the most parodied artworks in American popular culture; see it here.
