Live from the Cleveland Dumpster Fire: Matthew Yglesias says "ECONOMIC ANXIETY!!" and sends us to : Melania’s Fan Club: "She just needed to get up there and speak to them...
...the women of the GOP, about their values—family, country, the sanctity of life—and they would embrace her.... That desire came in part from... their loathing for the current first lady. ‘Michelle had a lot of baggage,’ said Faith Louis, a delegate from Omaha, Nebraska. Melania is 'elegant, and after what’s been in the White House now it would be a nice change,’ said Karen of North Carolina, who would give only her first name. ‘Michelle Obama is not elegant, no. She’s too outspoken. And she doesn’t like America. She and her husband don’t like America.’ Michelle Obama came up constantly and unprompted, this poorly dressed, inelegant, aggressive presence who would be neutralized by Melania’s ‘grace’ and ‘poise’ and ‘intelligence’ on Pennsylvania Avenue. ‘She likes to entertain, so maybe the White House will go back to what it used to be,’ said Louis, the delegate from Nebraska, adding knowingly, ‘I think Obama likes to travel more than he likes to be at home’...
