A Republican president would be too conservative and never have wasted that money on an ego trip for something so limited and useless! When Mitt gets in the WH how long do you think it will take him to put those black elephants up for sale?
Note Romney has his own bus and it is NOT a multi-million dollar Prevost!
President Obama only rode the buses for a couple of miles at a time , spending the rest of the time flying from community to community in Air Force One. What’s more, the buses were flown from stop to stop as well . It’s normal practice for the President’s entire motorcade to be loaded up on cargo planes and flown from destination to destination. The buses were just a new part of that motorcade.
But why wouldn’t the presidential limousine have sufficed? Or one of the other armored vehicles that routinely travel with the President? Apparently because the President wanted the imagery of a bus . And buses are what he got.
If these reports are true, then not only do you get the pleasure of having a $1.1 million dollar bus carting the President around to “ enlist ” voters to fight for his reelection, but you get to marvel at the hypocrisy of an administration hell bent on destroying industries with carbon footprints too large for comfort , while they themselves are flying entire caravans of SUVs and buses in giant 747s flanked by fighter jets.
