Ha, ha! You lose!
Lots of fallout today over last night’s debate, in which Mitt Romney offered Rick Perry a $10,000 bet that Mitt’s book did not include a call for nationalizing RomneyCare. The video:
Lisa Graas reminds us that Mitt reportedly spent $45 million of his own money on his failed 2008 bid for the Republican nomination, and Lisa also provides this quote from Everybody’s Favorite Candidate:
“Well that is a lot of money for me . . . I don’t go around throwing around $10,000 bets.”
— Rick Santorum
Kathie Obradovich of the Des Moines Register:
Romney was casually offering the equivalent of about one-fifth of the average median income for an Iowa family. Romney’s privileged background was driven home later when the candidates were asked whether they’d ever had to cut costs in their own family budget.
“I didn’t grow up poor,” Romney said, and noted that if voters are looking for someone who did, they’ll have to vote for somebody else.
This is really unfortunate: Class warfare as an issue in a Republican primary? I don’t like it. However, it does effectively highlight one of Mitt’s tactical weaknesses — a weakness that the Democrats and media (but I repeat myself) would love to exploit in the general election campaign. It’s not necessarily about Mitt’s wealth, but about his tone-deafness to such sensitivities in a year when economic hardship and populist sentiment will be major political forces.
You know what would be nice? It would be nice if the Romney campaign would drop a few bills on some conservative bloggers.
Maybe not on me — the Future Ambassador to Vanuatu isn’t offering to sell out — but I’d bet $10,000 my buddy Jimmie Bise Jr. of Sundries Shack fame could be persuaded to provide some of that “New Media strategy” advice for Team Romney. Because in case you didn’t realize it, I’m once again stealing Jimmie’s “Clearing the Browser Tabs” idea to do a round-up of random links:
- Glenn Beck says it’s racist to support Newt Gingrich. And who can argue with that?
- New York University will offer a class on “Occupy Wall Street,” where we presume students will be taught poor hygiene, Jew-hating and sexual assault.
- The New York Times reports the ABC debate and never once mentions Rick Santorum.
- The Washington Post manages to get around to mentioning Rick Santorum in the 10th paragraph. You know what? I hope when this campaign is over, somebody at the Media Research Center will do a study in which they provide a comprehensive accounting of how much time each candidate got in each of the major televised debates.
- Da Tech Guy says: “Apparently Stephen Green was not the only one drunkblogging yesterday’s debate.” Heh.
- Lindsay Lohan’s Playboy photos have been leaked online — that link to Donald Douglas’s site is safe for work, but in case you’re not working today, Donald has links to the actual photos, you sick freaks. I liked Lindsay better as a real redhead than as a fake blonde, but your mileage may vary.
- Joy McCann asks: “Why are we letting the enemy moderate our debates? If the big networks aren’t willing to hire any non-liberal-Democrats full-time, they should at least have access to some who are willing to moderate GOP debates on a contract basis.”
- Conservative lesbian Cynthia Yockey isn’t happy with Rick Perry’s gay pollster Tony Fabrizio. You know who else probably isn’t happy with Rick Perry’s gay pollster Tony Fabrizio? Rick Perry, who might have a hard time explaining to Iowa’s social conservatives why he hired gay pollster Tony Fabrizio.
- Dave Weigel “nails it,” says Robert Costa, describing Weigel’s analysis of the Romney-Gingrich encounter, which was quoted by Professor William Jacobson and cited by Bill “Gloat Zone” Quick.
- Newt Gingrich must be destroyed says Bob Belvedere, who has compiled a lot of stuff about Gingrich that most people don’t know, including the fact that his name is “Newton Leroy.” That there’s funny, I don’t care who you are.
- Maggie’s Notebook has a comprehensive post-debate analysis.
- The good news: Christiane Amanapour will probably lose her job as host of ABC’s This Week. The bad news: They probably won’t replace her with Ann Coulter.
Oh, and that vintage pinup girl? Not entirely gratuitous, because I’m also trying to hitch a ride.
Remember that I am planning to depart for Iowa the day after Christmas, Dec. 26. I’ve already bought my ticket to Cedar Rapids ($275) and then a ticket from Des Moines to Boston ($205) on Jan. 5, but there are still other expenses to be covered on my 36-day campaign-trail trip all the way to Florida on Jan. 31. Your contributions to the Shoe Leather Fund are earnestly solicited.
Wait, you took my schtick and aren’t sharing the $10k? 🙂
Please stop this ABC fake issue BS.
And Santorum is a pompous phony- I read somewhere very recently that Santorum made over $800,000 last year doing speeches and TV appearances. He could not get re-elected in my home state and he sounds like a lunatic zealot most of the time.
Stacy is holding your schtick hostage and demands that you hit his freakin’ tip jar.
Glenn Beck is an idiot. I figured that out back when he started that “the EU headquarters was modeled after the Tower of Babel” bullshit, but I let it go. And what does he do, goes and proves I was right the first time. Fuck him!
Michelle Bachmann won last night because she has boobies and should do Blogads for Stacy.
I guess you missed the “Moses Stick”…
1. Let’s face it: Without stolen schticks, I wouldn’t have a blog. I am to schtick-stealing what Donald Trump is to comb-overs — the freakin’ king, baby.
2. I! Am! The 99 Percent! Y’know, like Al Sharpton.
Actually, there was a “racist” charge Beck could have raised against Newt supporters but Beck missed it for the walls of his own box.
I suspect Stacy might guess what I’m talkin’ about…
I didn’t notice the boobies, but she does have better hair than Mittens or Perry.
AJ Lynch, let Stacy have his pet project, Saving Private Santorum. All the other conservatives have fallen (well except Michelle Bachmann) and Stacy feels like he is on a mission.
I like somethings about Glenn Beck. I like he is self educated and promotes that. I wish we had more of that in politics and popular culture. Historically, Americans were a self taught people.
But I think he really believes the end times are upon us. And I want to dismiss him as a crank, while I continue to build up my supply of ammo, guns and dehydradated food.
Michelle Bachmann has a nice figure. But I question any man who describes that part of the female anatomy as “boobies.”
Just trying to raise the tone of this thread.
Stacy: Walk softly, but carry a big schtick!
After three years of O, I don’t even care if the end times are upon us.
Well I am pretty sure another term of Obama and we will be facing the end times.
Tits works. Although my wife points out that tits is the wrong word too. Not for being crude, but because she believes tits are for small breasts. She prefers breasts. She says boobies, but a man should describe them as boobs.
If you want to raise the tone, why not go with fun bags?
I prefer “jugs”, myself.
Seventies retro is always a good bet.
How about love muffins? Is that a little too personal?
LOL
Here’s one more if you wanna stick it to Mittens:
Mitt Romney says islam is not violent and that jihad has nothing at all to do with islam.
http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2011/12/dhimittude.html
Have you been evesdropping on me and my wife?
Have you been evesdropping on me and my wife?
I swear, that was the wind, not me in the bushes!!
Here are Newt’s key words from last night:
“This is a propaganda war, in which our side refuses to engage, and we refuse to tell the truth whiie the other side lies, and you’re not going to win in the long run if you’re afraid to stand firm and stand for the truth.”
Maahh friends, a long time ago we elected a President whose enemies declared that he had a war-against-Russia agenda, and it was important that he not rock the boat and start a thermonuclear war. They said by merely questioning the legitimacy of the neo-Stalinist regime he was hurling us into the apocalypse. Now we know that, in private, when he was asked about his view of the Cold War, he said: “We win, they lose.”
Go back and look at Newt’s quote there. Did any other candidate jump up and agree that we are in a propaganda war in which our side refuses to engage? Can anyone deny it? But only Newt had the courage to stand for the truth, even Rick Santorum went all nervous-Nellie on us.
People, allow me to state the obvious: You cannot win a war if you don’t realize you are in one. You cannot win a war by refusing to engage the enemy. And you cannot win a war if you’re afraid to stand for the truth.Period.
Well done, Mr. Speaker. And to think that some bloggers wrote you out of the race for that kissy-face with Al Sharpton and Arne Duncan!
Not that anyone cares, or will see this comment so late after the post, but Soylent Green has a few more of those Lohan pics than Douglas linked to. http://cbullitt.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/the-lindsey-lohan-nude-marilyn-monroe-photos/
Glenn Beck makes some good points now and then, but calling Newt Gingrich a socialist is just plain stupid. I didn’t see the show but it sounded like he decided he was going to tear down Newt and Newt wasn’t having any of that so Beck started saying stupid stuff.
Bodacious Ta-Ta’s?
Thanks for the link in this post, Stacy, and the HEADLINE.
Keep schticking it to The Man.