Ya Think, Romney? Ya Really Think So?
Fabulous Mitt Romney quote about his wife’s recent airplane mishap —
“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”
First, he wants aircraft windows that will open? Why? So the dog can stick his head out and enjoy the breeze? Dude, you can’t have aircraft windows that open. Are you seriously nuts? And if the cabin was on fire, I don’t think opening a window would exactly help. You know what fire just loves? The same things as humans – oxygen.
Besides, somewhere in Doggy Heaven, Semus is chuckling his butt off.
Thanks to Brian and Margie for the heads up.
Mitt might want to have that Bill Nye, Science Guy explain a few things about combustion. Heck, why doesn’t he just rent “Backdraft” on DVD…
1A little physics here: If you crack a window at the altitude most jets fly, getting rid of that nasty smoke is going to be the very least of your problems — and in about ten seconds, you aren’t going to have any more problems, because you’ll be dead.
2Actually Mitt has a plan in the event of a fire aboard his plane but he can’t tell you about it until after the election.
3hmmm, perhaps he doesn’t understand that at 30,000 feet temps can run as low as 30 below zero and the plane needs to be PRESSURIZED so we don’t pass out from lack of oxygen.
Oy, this man needs someone to cut in and say “no comment”
4Aloha Airlines Flight 243 got plenty of fresh air when a small seam opened on the fuselage, and then the top peeled back: http://www.aloha.net/~icarus/index.htm
5The pilots did manage to land the plane, but the passengers were not too thrilled with the extra ventilation. And that, Mr. Romney, is why you can’t open windows on a jet.
@Rick: Oh, and there was that flight attendant who wasn’t belted into a seat and was sucked out of the plane over the Pacific Ocean–never to be seen again. What an ignorant putz. He’s also promoting “cold fusion” at the University of Utah–something that was debunked back in 1989. Again, what a putz.
What I want to know is: how did somebody this ignorant manage to make all that money???
6I was just thinking the same thing, Barb. This man must have delegated everything.
7I once had a boss at the Chronicle that was that dumb. His staff spent way too much time having to explain the simplest things. Absolutely clueless about everything. And yes, he got his job by the bootstrap thing, you know, being related to someone higher up.
betcha he wants electric windows in all the planes he rides in now…….
nj
8What a novel money making idea! Maybe Mitt can take over an airline on the verge of collapse and try it.
9This Thanksgiving I will have something to be thankful for:
10that Mitt Romney was never an airplane designer.
You can’t make this stuff up, it’s getting too hard to do a satire on a guy like this. I look forward to Stewart / Colbert tonight with this beaut.
If he only had a brain……Maybe he should be off to see the Wizard.
11Reminds me of the old Bob Newhart monologue about the “Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Co.”
12“Some of us” were worried?? You mean to say that others heard that the candidate’s wife’s plane is about to go down and thought, Meh? I sure hope they were not the same guys who got the $200k bonus for doing such an awesome job at the convention.
Also, when something like this happens, make sure to thank the pilot and the co-pilot for their skill and bravery for keeping your wife safe and sound. Maybe even give them the $200k bonuses. Geez.
Also, science is hard.
13IAnd here I was thinking that Mitt doesn’t live in the real world.
Now I’m not even sure he lives on this planet.
14How could he possibly be president if he’s never flown on a regular commercial airline and heard the oxygen briefing?
15reminds me of George H. W. Bush being amazed at a scanner in a supermarket.
I thought Seamus immigrated to Canada after the ride of his life…on a dead run all the way.
16Anyone with enough chutzpah and zillionaire friends can be president if he/she is willing to get up and be a fool for a year or so. I would imagine it would put a serious strain on family matters, though.
17Unbelievable!
Most airlines I’ve flown on…… have oxygen in the cabin, as well as the cockpit.
Maybe he needs to buy Ann a better plane???
18Some very funny tweets about this can be found here:
19http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/hilarious-reactions-romneys-airplane-windows-comment