I guess it's not so surprising that a guy who was once the chairman of the Michigan Republican Party and is now the chairman of the Republican National Committee's finance committee would tell a tea party group that Mitt Romney was going to win Michigan. But what is surprising—or at least what should be surprising—is the argument Ron Weiser offered when he made his case last August in a video posted over the weekend by the Detroit Free Press: (click to go to video) If you don't have the patience to watch the entire video, Weiser said he was optimistic about Mitt Romney's chances because: Instead of voting, he said, people in Detroit will just sit around pool halls getting drunk: And, Weiser said, there's nothing Democrats can do about it because Obama campaign workers would be too afraid to go into the city to get people out to vote: So, according to Weiser, Wayne County wasn't going to deliver for President Obama because Obama's workers would be too scared to actually enter the city and drive its lazy drunkards to the polls. You can tell this is a guy who probably played Mitt Romney's 47 percent video over and over and thought it was the highlight of the campaign, but there's more to his argument, and it turns out that not only is Weiser an offensive asshole, he's also just plain dumb. Read more http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/...se-Detroiters-were-too-lazy-and-drunk-to-vote
