Mitt Romney throwing down a $10K bet during Saturday’s GOP debate is evidence he’s… out of touch ? Bull. I say it shows he’s in touch. Every weekend guys throw down meaningless $10,000 bets. It’s a tool to say: “I’m know I’m 100% correct and I’m going to embarrass you…so walk away from your claim right now or put your money where you’re mouth is.” It works like this: Two guys having beers. Guy Number 1 says, “I’ve been working out a lot lately. I bet I can do 25 pull ups.” Guy Number 2 laughs increduously, “You can’t do 25 pull ups!” Guy Number 1, “Yes, I think I can.” Guy Number 2, “You couldn’t do 25 pull ups even if I gave you a step stool and a Crossfit membership.” Guy Number 1, “Oh yea? Wanna bet?” Guy Number 2, “Yes. $10,000.” Dan Foster at NRO says there two scenarios in which guys make such a bet: The first is that the determinant of the bet is so far off (e.g., a typical bet in the questionable circles I move in would be taking an over-under on the number of games the New York Mets will win in the next ten years) that the combined chances of the bet being forgotten about, runaway inflation greatly devaluing its outcome, or one/both of the bettors coming into a great fortune in the interim are sufficiently high to make it worthwhile. The other scenario is that the person offering the bet is absolutely sure he’s correct and wants to make a point of it to the idiot doubting him. Examples of this scenario in my milieu include “Yes, David Lynch did direct Dune ” and “No, you couldn’t swim the widest Manhattan-Queens span of the East River at midnight, even if I gave you a month to train and a top-flight wetsuit: You’re not a strong swimmer, it’s close to a mile wide, and it’s a tidal estuary with a shifting current that could easily carry you out to see. Besides, it’s really dirty.” So see, I think Mitt Romney might actually be in touch with average Joes out there making ridiculous bets. (FYI – it doesn’t always work. I recently made a late night $1,000 bet with a friend of mine – who weighs 320lbs and played offensive line in the NFL – that he couldn’t fit himself into an outdoor water tank with a 15 inch hole in the top. After ten minutes and some incredible shimmying…I was light $1,000.) In all seriousness, I like the cajones Romney showed here. Gingrich’s appeal over Romney is about one of two things: a.) Style. His perceived ability to take it to President Obama aggressively. To debate Obama. To be an alpha male candidate. This, versus Romney’s bland nice guy persona. b.) He’s not a Mormon. (This increasingly appears to be an issue. I’ll write more about this later.) Whatever Gingrich’s appeal, we know its not about conservative principles or character. So good for Romney for taking on a little alpha-male and throwing down a ten large wager on Perry.
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Mitt’s $10K Bet Shows He’s In Touch
This isn’t quite as fun as the number of liberals who needed therapy for PEST (post election selection trauma) after Bush beat Waffles Kerry in the 2004 election, what with all the ones who couldn’t get out of bed for days, couldn’t work, and/or went to see professional mental health workers who were just as
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Bummer: Some LA Occupiers Feel Traumatized, May Seek Therapy
Indulging in cable news feuds can get childish and trite, but CNN 360 host Anderson Cooper’s meticulous response to an unprovoked attack from outspoken MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz is enjoyable to anyone a little tired of Schultz’s frequent outbursts, including charging Rep. Paul Ryan with ” inciting civil war” and calling radio host Laura Ingraham a “Right-Wing Slut” : The CNN anchor was responding to Schultz’s attack on Cooper, seemingly out of the blue, earlier this week. Last week Schultz joined the likes of Tila Tequilla, Hank Williams Jr. and Barack Obama on GQ’s list of ” The 25 Least Influential People Alive.” Instead of examining the way he conducts himself, Schultz lashed out against those he perceives as “in the GQ crowd,” like Cooper: “Now, since, I know that Anderson Cooper floats around in that GQ crowd. I don‘t know if he’s behind it or whether their publicist at CNN or, but let me just say, I’m kicking his ass…” Let’s just go to last week … Let’s go to last Monday night. Last Monday night in the demo, 25-54, my number was 184 (thousand). Anderson Cooper’s numbers was … 136! Now in total numbers, total viewership, my number was 940. Anderson Cooper’s was 429! In the business, that’s called getting your ass kicked! Not that I would do that. I guess Cooper’s just a nice little guy.” Cooper has nothing to do with producing the editorial content in GQ, and made that clear along with a few jabs at Schultz during the “Ridiculist” segment of his show Friday. “I think cable news feuds are stupid,” said Cooper before taking Schultz to town, chuckling while reading down the list of occasions where the MSNBC host has had to publicly apologize or serve a suspension following ill-advised comments, as well as naming some of the other people that Schultz joins on the GQ list.
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Anderson Cooper Rips MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: ‘Pretty Thin Skin For Someone Who Goes Around Calling People Sluts’
Despite all the hype about Republicans wanting Sen. Marco Rubio as the number two on the Republican presidential ticket, there’s talk among some GOP in Washington about wanting Michele Bachmann as the veep, U.S News reports . On the Democrat side, they want Hillary Clinton to replace Joe Biden to try and woo “educated whites.” Of course, Clinton has said time and time again that she plans on leaving President Obama ‘s administration once the first term is up in 2012. Even so, a debate between Bachmann and Clinton is a brawl I’d pay money to see.
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VP girl fight?
Finally, a greenie weenie (read: uber climate alarmist) is attempting to comply with the life the Warmists want everyone else to live. And finding out that it’s, well, not easy (Grist) I’ve become quite the calorie-counter lately. With the holiday season upon us, I’m really tightening my belt, carefully calculating the number of calories I’d consume
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The Greenie Pig Finds Out That Attempting To Live The “Green” Life Is Hard
While campaigning in South Carolina on Tuesday, Newt Gingrich said he brought in so much cash money in the past by simply making speeches that he never needed to be a lobbyist. “I did no lobbying of any kind – period,” Gingrich said, according to the Huffington Post. “I’m going to be really direct, OK? I was charging $60,000 a speech. And the number of speeches was going up, not down. Normally, celebrities leave and they gradually sell fewer speeches every year. We were selling more.” Gingrich has come under a bit of fire recently for reports that he was paid at least $300,000 (some reports say as much as $1.6 million) by home mortgage giant Freddie Mac. Some have suggested Gingrich was working as a lobbyist. He says he was acting as a “historian.”
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Newt Gingrich didn’t need chump change lobbyist money
Don’t blame big banks for the flailing economy and housing crash, notes IBD : … based on the number of toxic loans in the system in 2008, the government was responsible for not just a simple majority, but more than two-thirds. It’s quantifiable — 71% to be exact (see chart). And the remaining 29% of private-label junk was mostly attributable to Countrywide Financial, which was under the heel of HUD and its “fair-lending” edicts. Via Memeorandum and Verum Serum . PHOTO CREDIT : That Mr. G Guy .
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Wall Street Did It?
