The Romneys Fall Victim To Air Rage On Canadian Flight

One news outlet is reporting that the aggressor broke his hand on Romney's hair.

In first class?

I think Romney's a major-league tool when it comes to politics, but I wouldn't have blamed him one bit if he punched this guy's lights out. If I had my way, air ragers would be forcibly renditioned to Gitmo.

Prim & prissy Mitt didn't want to muss up his blow-dry. There went his shot at the big prize. Heehee.

I'm up early and TPM is always late updating their website so I ventured over to Huffpo and Dailykos who have the story on this already. It appears that Romney handled himself well and the other guy may have been having a bad day. I am no fan of Romney but let's get the stories straight. Doesn't look like much of a story here.

Romney was a guest of the Canadian Olympics people as a former organizer of the Salt Lake Games. The plane is probably a little puddle jumper with glorified cardtable chairs bolted to the floor.

The plane was on the ground so the pilot probably hadn't made the announcement yet. Romney was probably kicking the guy's seat back like a little kid. I hope he took off his belt and whipped Mittens like a mule.

If Mitt can't get tough against air rage, how can we expect him to get tough against Al Qaida?

Flying is so stressful now that I wouldn't dare tell the passenger in front of me to return their seatback to the upright position for takeoff because I don't know how he/she would react, but luckily, the flight crew has always walked through and done it. That said, there are people who just assume rules and requests don't apply to them, like the couple who boarded early just like us and heard the same announcement not to put coats in the upper compartments because the flight was full and they would be needed for bags--the couple had just put their coats in the compartment and I watched what they would do--they glanced at each other and upwards, exchanged words, but did not remove their coats. As the plane fills up, the announcement is repeated several times. Finally a flight attendant checking for space opens up the compartment and shoves a bag in on top of the couple's coats. He jumps up and gets the coats, but as a parting shot to the flight attendant says "Coats cost money!"