....Romney: "I'll bet you $10,000.
Perry turns Israel argument back on Obama [biggest applause of the Iowa debate]
Posted on 12/12/2011 6:47:04 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Mitt Romney on Monday dismissed his offer to make a $10,000 bet with Rick Perry as merely "an outrageous number to answer an outrageous charge" _ namely, Perry's claim that Romney made changes to parts of his book.
Romney told Fox News he made the bet offer in the weekend GOP presidential debate because of Perry's erroneous claim that he deleted parts of his book, "No Apology," that referred to Romney's support for a health care mandate. Romney said his bet offer was simply meaningless hyperbole.
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....Romney: "I'll bet you $10,000.
Perry turns Israel argument back on Obama [biggest applause of the Iowa debate]
Spin Spin Spin
And, Perry would win that bet.
$10 grand? By way of comparison, I was talking to my boss about a computer problem last week and jokingly told him "I bet you a quarter this fix works".
I won, but didn't ask him to pay up. :-)
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This is just how Rick Perry is. After Hurricane Ike devastated my community, he came here to survey the damage. He did not just walk through here surrounded by security and news cameras and then make a speech. That's not Perry. He showed up in jeans and a work shirt, no cameras, no press conference, and he walked among all of us who had been hit. A hug, a pat on the shoulder, a listening ear, and an encouraging word. He saw to it that emergency shelters were being set up and food and water were available to everyone. When Obama/FEMA refused to help us, Governor Perry set up state funding to help us rebuild our homes and our lives. My home is at 'ground zero' where Ike came ashore. We all took tremendous damage. FEMA sent me a check two months later for $600 dollars. Governor Perry set up the Recovery Fund to help us all rebuild. That is what a true leader and a true Christian does. That's my Governor! I can't wait to see America under the caring wing of Rick Perry.
That's -- I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals. [video clip]
Fox is so in the tank for Romney - it’s revolting. They are giving Romney an open forum on several Fox programs - to correct all his dumb debate performances.
He makes no substantive comments on his policies or platform - always about his personal self - his parents’ influence on being an American - ??? like sending him to France during VietNam.
CW - respect your Perry support - I would like to see a Newt/Rick ticket. Don’t kill me!!! LOL!!
RINOmney is example two that our top schools are - perhaps -chrome-coated plastic.
The Cretin-in-Chief is, of course, example one.
Can you imagine any real college of the 50s graduating that clown?
Mitt Romney reaches for wife Ann to mop up $10k gaffe ......"After the debate was over. Ann came up and gave me a kiss and said I was great and she said, a lot of things you do well, betting isn’t one of them," Romney said in New Hampshire after a town hall meeting, according to POLITICO's Reid Epstein.
Asked if it was the largest bet he's ever made, Romney replied, "That’s all I’ve got," and chuckled." [meaning all he had to say on the matter]
“Outrageous number to answer outrageous claim” is a
classic well-crafted response, obviously designed by
Romney’s advisers-—say what they will, that moment was
equivalent to Perry’s brain-freeze about the Departments
he would eliminate. The net results, at least temporary , will be evident in the Iowa primary vote.
As a non-Morman, I am curious, what does the LDS church say about making bets?
Meaningless hyperbole is a quality I always look for in a presidential candidate. It's so very...presidential. < /sarc>
This explanation.....fail!
Romney, what a loser!
I was thinking a Newt/Rick ticket was a real possibility as of yesterday-—then I read that one of Perry’s statements during the debate was a swipe at Gingrich for “cheating”.
Did I misread this quote? It was obviously from the fifteen minutes of the debate I missed. So, in light of that, I can’t see a Gingrich/Perry ticket.
Besides, nobody has change for a $20,000 bill.
I’m with you.
Romney tried to spin it, but let’s face it, ten thou is the bet that came to his mind.
And why does he keep saying Perry is wrong. Is Perry wrong? Haven’t seen it proved.
I could care less that Romney decided to bet $10K with Rick Perry. But I can say without equivocation that his attempt to walk it back and rationalize it is so typically Romney that it merely confirms to me why I will only vote for him if he is the candidate, holding my nose and only because anything is better than 4 more years of Obama.
He’s a venture capitalist. Betting is what venture capitalists do. Maybe not in Vegas, but that may just be that the stakes aren’t high enough. Under that whitebread facade is a gambler, someone who is willing to go all in with an empty hand. Whether that is the kind of person we need as president is another discussion. But for him to hide who he is (even when it leaks out as in this $10K gaffe) is strangely reminiscent of the current occupant of the White House.
That was the first thought that came to my mind. I saw why the bet amount was picked up by the media (Mitt gifted it in his ill-conceived attempt to stop Perry from picking at his mandate scab) but his attempt to blow it off now that it's backfired on him, is yucky.
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