FLASHPOINT for Aug 13, 2007

Monday, Aug. 13, 2007 | 7:13 a.m.

Mitt Romney is scheduled to be in Elko today for an "Ask Mitt Anything" event. I hope he realizes that these ain't rubes from Iowa or New Hampshire. In fact, I have some advice for Gov. Romney. Perhaps he should lift some quotes from a famous Jim Gibbons speech in Elko that was, ironically, lifted from someone else, a state auditor in Alabama, as a matter of fact. Gov. Romney, just tell the Elkoans: "I say we tell those liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else." Two years after he uttered those words, Jim Gibbons was governor. Romney now has a chance to use those remarks to catapult himself to an even higher platform.

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