I don’t want to be cavalier about something that must have been quite frightening for Ann Romney. A plane she was traveling on had to make an emergency landing last week because an electrical fire was filling the cabin with smoke. I’m sure that Mitt Romney was quite emotional about it when he heard what had happened, and I don’t want to make light of either of their experiences. But, holy crap is Romney stupid if he thinks it is a good idea to have windows that open on airplanes so you can let fresh oxygen in. If he has no clue how airplane pressurization works, he ought to at least know that there is virtually no oxygen at the cruising altitude of airplanes.
What does he thinks happens to folks who summit Mt. Everest? They either bring supplemental oxygen or they have to race back down before they die. But forget about the science of the thing. I went to tell the teenage boys about what Romney said and they already knew. Facebook is plastered with jokes about what an idiot Romney is for wanting airplanes with windows that open.
Pretty much every kid in the country has already had about 10 laughs today at Romney’s expense. Someone even made a submarine with a screen door.
