Meet Rory
July 27, 2010 by Patrick Madrid
Filed under Patrick's Blog
I admit, when I first saw this satirical GOP-sponsored commercial, I thought it was pure satire. In other words, I thought there was no way that Harry Reid’s son, Rory Reid, the Democrat candidate for governor of Nevada, was really dropping his last name from much of his public campaign outreach. But then I checked out his official campaign website and was . . . not really surprised, actually . . . to see that that’s pretty much what he’s doing — campaigning mainly as “Rory.”
True, that move has worked in the past for well-known and widely admired political icons like Teddy (Roosevelt), Ike and, more recently, Hillary. But Rory? Mmm, not so much.
Ike is a nickname from Eisenhower, not from Dwight or David, either of his first names.