| Someone posted photos on Facebook of Rick Santorum eating a pasty while visiting the U.P. this morning. We can feel sorrow for the pasty, having given its life in an act of crass pandering caused not by a candidate whose enthusiasm for Upper Peninsula delicacies probably extends only as far as the media coverage it will get him. Speaking of media coverage, here's a gaffe that people were predicting hours before it unfolded. Mitt Romney’s speech in front of a 98% empty football stadium was the result of a last minute security change, according to two highly placed officials with the event’s organizer, the Detroit Economic Club. The stadium was only chosen after a smaller venue sold out. Beth Chappell, president and CEO of the group, told TPM that the new plan was to hold the event in the stadium’s atrium, which wouldn’t have had a panoramic view of the venue’s empty 65,000 seats, but that the security team — which included Secret Service, Detroit police, and Ford Field security — did not approve.
Elsewhere, the thing got panned as a "clunker." This is one of those things that, if your candidate has been tagged as not a regular person, you make sure you don't feed into. After the fact finger pointing aside, is there anything that better feeds into the idea that Willard Mitt "Mittens" Romney was born with a silver spoon in his mouth than giving a flop of a speech to a nearly empty football stadium? |
