What the hell is that little dot

[angrychair]

In R$'s flag pin? Getting on my nerves. More importantly, why has he modified the U.S. flag? I thought freepers hated stuff like that.

[Ztolkins]

1. I think it's a Secret Service pin...n/t

[leveymg]

2. SS lapel pin - shhh! Very tippy-toppy secret!

[bushisanidiot]

4. Nope, that's not it. It's a black dot.

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[angrychair]

5. THANKS!!

Did the SS give it to him? He wears that pin a lot. What an asshole. Will he still wear it once they bug out at 11 pm on election night and leave him to the dust bin of history?

[patrice]

11. No. It's nothing that big. Just a single DARK stone. Maybe a saphire?

[patrice]

12. or a VERY dark ruby? or onyx?

[bushisanidiot]

3. I've seen other republicans wear it.

I've wondered what the black dot is, too. Seems like they want their own American Flag rather
than use the one everyone else honors.

[Jennicut]

14. Not a black dot, just looks that way on tv. It is the Secret Service pin

Hard to see the star around the darker part.

[CurtEastPoint]

9. See this WaPo article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/mitt-romneys-flag-pin-whats-that-star-on-the-stripes/2012/10/04/d33c7926-0e68-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_blog.html

[demhottie]

10. Thanks- just found it!

Romney's a pratt

[patrice]

7. That's bugging me too. I think it's somekind of 1%er gang-sign maybe kind of like skull-&-bones but

MUCH more exclu$ive and $ecret. Maybe it's meant to give communication to some, domestic & foreign, who, if they were to communicate any other way, certain of their "trusted" underlings, in their network of financial relationships, would bail-out of their deals?????

Really just speculating here, but that pin is just so very VERY odd, given his supposed base of Tea Partying flag-idolators.

I mean, WHAT? THE HELL????

[Jennicut]

15. Look at my response above in the thread.

I dislike Mittens but it is definitely the Secret Service pin, given by the SS agents to Mittens. I posted a pic further up in the thread.

[patrice]

16. Okay. But WHY this choice? Does the Secret Service NOT know Rongny on sight? What is different

between him and Obama? Is there someone else who doesn't know him (doesn't differentiate between him and any of the other white males standing around) on sight?

It could be something as little as nearly meaningless one-upsmanship to something bigger that we know nothing about, so I grant that I'm speculating. It just seems so petty as to be unlikely for all of its "littleness".

Maybe speculation alone is the function of this difference between him and Obama.

[Jennicut]

17. It was just a gift from his protective detail.

Nothing else behind it. I bet Obama and Biden and even Ryan might have one too. SS is a non partisan organization in the govt and many people running it last through different Presidents, though they have had some issues lately. Nothing to do with politics, however.

[Graybeard]

8. Mike Malloy did a riff on that...

...during the first debate, tossing around different possibilities. One was that the pin is connected to a tube and a water gun in Rmoney's pocket. "Hey look at my pin"....squirt.

[fleur-de-lisa]

13. It's a miniature of the planet Kolob - eom