Which candidate is more likely to go “boom!” in SC?

Maybe I’ve got my metaphors confused.

On a previous post, I likened Newt Gingrich to a hand grenade with the pin pulled. But I couldn’t remember what you call that clip thing down the side of the grenade that you have to hold in place manually after pulling the pin if you want to hold it without getting blown up. So I Googled “hand grenade parts,” and got this page, which told me it was called the “safety lever.” Fine.

But after I posted my metaphor, I noticed that there was a political ad on the hand grenade page — and it wasn’t for Gingrich. Yeah, it appears to be a Google ad, and therefore is showing up because I, a South Carolinian, went to the page, but still….

5 thoughts on “Which candidate is more likely to go “boom!” in SC?”

Karen McLeod January 16, 2012 at 3:47 pm

Perry would make the country “go boom.”
Mab January 16, 2012 at 4:02 pm

Is Donnie Myers giving you headlines again, Brad?
`Kathryn Fenner January 16, 2012 at 4:13 pm

I think Newt is the most neutron-bomblike.
Brad January 16, 2012 at 8:00 pm

I’m just picturing a conversation among the master-strategists at Perry HQ: “We gotta get us an ad on that hand-grenade site, because THOSE are our voters…”

Smiley face.
`Kathryn Fenner January 16, 2012 at 9:06 pm

Actually, Brad–who else has a higher likelihood of getting the guns ‘n ammo vote?