If a guy walks into a hardware store and nobody sees him, does anybody care?
That was the question I asked myself Wednesday as I skulked around LaValley Building Supply in West Lebanon, N.H., waiting for something to happen.
Inside was this guy named Mitt Romney, who doesn’t like dogs very much and who is also running for president of the United States. He’s been at camp this week — debate camp, that is — in nearby West Windsor, Vt. But with Democrats hogging the spotlight down in Charlotte, Romney briefly emerged from his pal’s $3.9 million lair to conduct a few television interviews in the closest purple state he could find — in what appeared to be the handtool and glove aisle at LaValley’s.
I happened to be in Norwich at the time and, alerted to the visit by a tweet from WCAX-TV’s Adam Sullivan (thanks, bro!), I popped on down to the West Leb strip, figuring that if the Romney event was a bust I could at least drop by Lebanon Pet & Aquarium Center to check out the fish.
It was, in fact, a total bust.
Though I waited patiently for nearly two hours, I failed to catch a single glimpse of that perfectly coiffed hair, that casually unbuttoned dress shirt or that reassuringly square jaw. I went there for Mitt, but all I got was Randy Brock.
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god that was a tedious post. If you don’t have anything to report, don’t report.
I thought it was a great post. Quite fun. I’d love to hang with Paul Heintz some day, pizza place though. I like your style, bub.
Funny and awesome! I would love to hang out with Paul too, but I bet we would talk about Phish.
Well, at least you tried to get access to the too-important-for-the-people Romney.
My favorite line is Brock justifying his right to speak to Romney by saying, “We ARE part of the union.” I love living in a state where we have to remind people of that. 🙂
Actually, this post offers great insight into how reporters actually spend most of their time. “Hurry up and wait.”
Perhaps if we didn’t threaten secession every time we’re pouty about whoever is in the White House people wouldn’t need to be reminded.
I know this is an old article but with midterms today I wanted to look it up I have been an employee at Lavalleys now for two years this was actually only my third day on the job as a conservative I was very disappointed in mitt, he only spoke with the manager and owner the redt of us never got to see him and it basically lost us an hour of business, I was at the counter and I remember the man shooing away the local press there was one man who I was talking with that was so excited to get a good story and as an aspiring journalist I can respect that, felt really bad for him, I still remember how disappointing this day was