Well, he looked around for a kind of a podium, something to stand on, he continued, and then the only thing available was a pile of that stuff that the late Mrs. Truman said it had taken her 35 years to get Harry to call fertilizer. So, he stepped up on that and made his speech.
And apparently he won them over. And they told him it was the first time theyd ever heard a Republican. And he says, Thats okay. Thats the first time Ive ever given a speech from a Democratic platform.'
Where were the Romney and McCain advisors getting the vapors over him alienating the "moderate vote" at the time?
(Psst. I’ve been told that “the vapors” is an old-fashioned descriptor of what we now call “passing gas” by some southern girls I knew. Just FYI.)