Mitt Romney should be the tester on new planes that have windows that go down. He's right, it's hot and stuffy and we should be able to get fresh air while sitting on the tarmac or if the person next to you is wearing too much, or not enough perfume/cologne.

For the record, other attendees at that event have reported that the line was delivered as a joke and received a laugh from the crowd.

Well they take stuff out of context all the time. So there. Or something.

Nope. Have you seen the tape? It was not delivered as a joke, and there was no laughter.

Umm, link please? I've heard of no such video.

Okay, found it.

Honestly, hard to say. He did have a smirk on his face, a self satisfied chuckle, and a bit of a shrug leading up to the line, though he kind always has a smirk doesn't he. There was some audible reaction from the audience, but with absolutely no pause to allow for a laugh, hard to tell if it was a laugh or a collective, "Uhh, wtf?"

Watched it a couple times, and I honestly can't say one way or the other. I have no doubt that he has no ability to deliver a joke, so it is very plausible that he though that was hilarious.

link. Judge for yourself.

Now why would I want to form an opinion based on fact when I can just have my own ignorant emotional position?

He was definitely not offering it up as a sober policy proposal, but - to my observation - not the same type of delivery as his other flat-on-their-face attempts at humor.

I can't go as far as "hard to tell" though. If it were a joke, I think he would have given some clue that he was telling it in the same vein of ridiculousness as it conveyed to all thinking people around the world. Also, coming directly on the heels of a rather serious (and appropriate) bit of concern for his wife's safety, there was nothing to indicate an instant segue to an entirely different tone of lightness.

Haven't seen the video but just from the transcript I read it not as asking why you can't generally roll down the windows on an airplane but why there isn't some emergency mechanism to break the seal of the airplane and allow external oxygen to flow in when the cabin is in a low oxygen situation. That there might be situations where maintaining cabin pressure might be worse than keeping it.

But regardless, I don't care much. Even if it was just a stupid thought that popped into his head, I've certainly expressed such stupidity when talking extemporaneously.