EN ROUTE FROM OKLAHOMA CITY TO LONG BEACH, Calif. - It has been a long time since White House Republican hopeful and multimillionaire venture capitalist Mitt Romney slept on the floor, but he was planning to do just that on Monday night.
The floor of a charter plane, that is. Romney has crisscrossed the United States in the final days before Super Tuesday and on Monday alone he flew from Nashville to Atlanta to Oklahoma City to Long Beach, California.
After stopping for just a couple of hours, he was due to get back on an overnight plane to West Virginia and Boston for Tuesday, when 21 states vote to pick a Republican presidential nominee.
There are no flat-bed seats in Romney’s charter plane. He does enjoy a wide business class seat in the front row but he said he planned to spend the red-eye flight on the floor.
“It’s been a while since I slept on the floor,” he told reporters on the flight to California. “Usually if I’m in trouble I sleep on the sofa,” he said.
A father of five who frequently talks about family values, Romney quickly took back the suggestion that he gets in trouble with his wife, Ann.
“Actually I’ve not been in trouble to sleep on the sofa. But sometimes in the middle of the night if I wake up and can’t sleep, instead of bothering Ann by tossing and turning, I sleep on the sofa,” he said.
“Camping is probably the last time I slept on the ground,” he said, adding that was perhaps a decade ago. “It’s been a long time.”
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- Photo credit: Reuters/Claudia Parsons (Romney talks to media on his charter plane on Monday)
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McCain likes to congratulate himself for being a war hero. That’s really odd. My late husband, who was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, NEVER talked about the war or praised himself. It was only after his death that I found his medals and citations, including a Distinguished Flying Cross. I didn’t know anything about them, so I asked a neighbor who had been to nam too. It turns out he was a Green Beret, but like my husband, he never said a word about any of it.
But here is more details about the POW issue and McCain’s handling of it:
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmcc ain.com/
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