From The New York Times:
AMES, Iowa — Mitt Romney became the target of mocking criticism on Sunday from several of his Republican presidential rivals — except Newt Gingrich, whose silence underscored his growing confidence as the party’s nominating contest enters a critical week featuring the final televised debate of the year.
A day after Mr. Romney unwittingly created a fresh punch line when he extended his hand during a debate and tried to make a $10,000 bet with Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to settle a disagreement over health care, Mr. Perry said that the exchange was the latest sign that his opponent was out of step with most voters.
“Having an extra $10,000 that you would throw down on a bet just seems very out of the ordinary,” Mr. Perry said in a brief interview as he passed through a coffee shop here. He smiled, adding, “I would suggest to you that $10,000 is pocket change for Mitt.”
Former Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. of Utah, who did not meet requirements to participate in the debate because of his low poll numbers, sought to keep the exchange alive by suggesting that he would accept Mr. Romney’s bet. The Democrats joined in the criticism, too, piecing together a Web video of the unflattering commentary about Mr. Romney at the debate on Saturday.
The remark from Mr. Romney not only drew attention to his wealth, but also highlighted how he had grown defensive three weeks before the Republican voting begins at the Iowa caucuses. He sought to brush aside questions about the $10,000 wager, but noted that his wife, Ann, told him after the debate, “A lot of things you do well; betting isn’t one of them.”
HYSTERICAL RAISINS 
Great poster. I have nothing to add about the issue, but this is a great one.
Very well done.
thanks wken! this was a fun one to work on. i was going to change gunslinger to bullslinger, but i figured either one is correct, so i was lazy and left it the way it was.
Damn, it took me five looks to notice Perry holding the corndog! i was about to suggest that Perry holding a book would be way funnier an image, esp. if still smoking, but that damn corndog just gets you right where it counts (which, for a middle aged man like me is my stomach)!
On a completely unrelated note, while I appreciate the visual necessity of 10 fanned thousand dollar bills, I doubt Mitt carries small change like that 🙂
And like wken, i got nada. Thanks for the daily smile
~ LL
I think he has an employee to carry his wallet for him.
wallet? he keeps his money in wheelbarrows.
i can’t resist the urge to put a corndog in gov little ricky goodhair’s hand whenever i get the opportunity.
that’s not mittsie’s (thinking of changing his nickname to betsy) pocket change. that’s what he uses to fan himself when he’s feeling a bit warm.
Me? I liked the picture of Bachmann working over her corn dog. It’s probably the only thing her husband let’s her do to him, if you catch my drift.
I gotta agree with wken. When you’ve been that big an idiot, well, your stupidity speaks for itself! 🙂
i love how mittsie is trying to defend saying something so tone deaf. he really is at a loss when the unwashed masses get offended by something his friends at the country club wouldn’t bat an eye at.
did you see that Madame Perry had another oopsie today (And i dont mean a diaper mishap)
“While criticizing President Barack Obama for picking winners and losers in the energy industry, he bungled the name of the most famous energy company to go under despite government assistance.
“No greater example of it than this administration sending millions of dollars into the solar industry, and we lost that money,” Perry began. “I want to say it was over $500 million that went to the country Solynda.”
Perry not only confused Solyndra with a country, he got the name of the company wrong, calling it “Solynda.”
so if corporations can be people, in rick perry’s mind they can also be countries. I hear Solynda is a nice place to vacation – they only have 8 supreme court justices and you need to be 21 to vote
hard to believe- but Rick Perry makes Sarah Palin look like she runs Mensa
solynda looks lovely. i just got a brochure in the mail for a timeshare there. i heard that princess sarah can see it from her house.
No. Rick Perry is the new George The 2nd. Same state. Same previous job. Similar appearance, speaking voice and lack of intelligence. The biggest difference is that Perry didn’t give up drinking in 1987.
Sarah Palin is in a special-ed class all of her own.
Une expression française, merveilleux! This bet reminds me of another several thousand dollars moment…
did i make you feel right at home, j-p? 😀 (we need an emoticon with a little beret)
And a cigarette. The expression bête noire makes me think of that:
oui, oui. and perhaps a glass of wine?
We know that Romney is rich but betting at a presidential campaign is asking for stultification. Are they leaving their brains outside when they debate,or is it a permanent condition.Another great poster Nonnie.
they’ve all lived too long in the bubble, and they’re completely out of touch with the average guy on the street. they have no idea what they sound like to us. add that to the pandering to the wingnuts in their target audience, and they’ve completely lost those in the public who can still think.
they’ve completely lost those in the public who can still think.
Yeah, all 279 of them.
There are that many?
Well, there were during the 2008 election. I expect many have died of old age, or more likely, suicide since the last election, but the official numbers don’t get updated until the end of 2012.
Hmmm, I wonder what kind of odds I can get on Mittens having kittens and spontaneously combusting before the primaries?
it’s all moot if you don’t have the 10K ante, jeb.
Mitt is a dick. But he’s not the biggest, meanest dick. It’s so funny how he gets so pissy in conflict situations. You can tell he’s use to people kissing his arse.
hey, you look familiar. did i used to know you? 😉
😀 *guilt*
i’m just foolin’!!! i still love ya!! ♥
“Former Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. of Utah, who did not meet requirements to participate in the debate because of his low poll numbers, sought to keep the exchange alive by suggesting that he would accept Mr. Romney’s bet.”
Ha, ha! Huntsman is telling Willard that he isn’t the only rich man’s son in the race.
i’d love to know why huntsman hates mittsie so much. you can cut the animosity with a knife when huntsman makes a snide remark about mittsie. is it a mormon thing?
“is it a mormon thing?”
No. LDS people tend to be overly nice to each other in public. I’d chalk it up to personal rivalry. Who knows, maybe their dads didn’t like each other, either.
i’ve been trying to find out how the hatefest started, because it is so unmormonlike, but i can’t find a definitive answer.
I wouldn’t rule out the competitive “I’m holier than thou” thing, though. I hear that’s how some of these Mormon feuds start, over “street cred.”
In this case, I think it’s all about prestige. It’s almost Shakespearean. Two royal families feuding, one is disgraced, and the other seeks vengeance.
Something rotten in the State of Utah? (Poster Idea for a future Mormon vs Mormon story?)
i can only hope and pray for a real showdown.
Add mine!
I would love to know too nonnie!! If you find out sleuthing around let me know. I expect a straight answer from Huntsman. I hope he does not disappoint in his endorsement (I can’t imagine anyone he would endorse!).
aha!! i believe i’ve finally found the answer. from the salt lake tribune:
there’s more at the link.
Twin sons of different mothers?
is hermie cain related, too? brother from another mother?
Great poster nonnie. What a side show the Republican candidates are offering this cycle. We must be the laughing stock of the world.
thanks maggiejean! 😀 for some reason, dvds of westerns are fun to work on.
Yeah, a good chunk of the world is risking their asses to get rid of their worthless leaders and Americans are just mindlessly accepting the “legitimacy” of the complete lunacy offered up by the Republican party.
I’d hazard a guess that much of the western world would consider Blue Dog Democrats on the edge of their respective (right wing) fringe.
And it turns out that Mitt would have won the bet.
If he hadn’t already lost it when he opened his mouth.
I say we let them keep talking.
Please don’t let them pull the clown show!
I’d like this to continue all the way to election day, but I fear that Jebbie will be riding in to the rescue (of the horrified rich backers) any day now and will run as our new “Education President.”
Details at my blog if you haven’t seen it already,
Love ya,
S
that was an interesting read, suzan. i was going to comment over there, but for some reason, my computer hates blogspot, and vice versa. jebbie is raking in money. he knows that he can’t run for president yet. it’s too soon after his moronic brother made a mess of things, and he knows it will take a long time before things get back to some semblance of order. jebbie will pad his pockets and wait for 2016 or even 2020.
Can’t decide which is more annoying: too much too soon Xmas music playing everywhere or whiney goper politics. I can combat the first,as always, by playing my archive rock-n-roll really loud. Only turning off devices can cure the other. Think I’ll go sit in the trees for a while and ponder where the nuggets are hiding (they say 90% of the gold is still in these hills).
let’s just hope the rethugs don’t start singing xmas carols. hermie could have pulled it off, but i doubt the others could stay on key.
I’m betting 10,000 dollars that I don’t have that Huntsman doesn’t want Romney to win because he’d mess it up for any future Mormon candidacy. Huntsman wants 2016. He’s a patient man.
That makes perfect sense!
The way Mormons breed (spreading well beyond the Utah borders) and the way they seem
so cultishly uniform in their opinionslike a “politically cohesive” unit, I only see their influence growing in the Republican party. In some regions, I think they’ll soon rival the evangelicals.Their biggest flaw is that they seem incapable of capturing the “angry voter”. Teabaggers just don’t swoon for the permanently positive.
They’re only permanently positive on the outside. They’re schemers on the inside. They’ll stab you in the back with big smiles on their faces. Of course, I don’t mean all Mormons. Just politicians and those fucking Osmonds.
Pardon the Yoda-speak, but I can think of one “fucking Osmond” I’d like to, if only for the nostalgic thrill (Hint: Marie)
i can’t stand that woman! i saw her on one of the talk shows after he son committed suicide. i felt sorry for her until she used the occasion to push her show. i didn’t like her before that, and i really can’t stand her now.
I didn’t know that. But, to be fair, you can’t get on a talk show anymore unless you’re pimping something. Somehow that quietly became the Law of TV land. I’m also sure her “people” were barking at her and would have insisted on recording the plug and inserting it in later. That’s how these Hollywood douches roll.
And those Mormon girls, they just smile and do whatever they’re told, no matter how crass or callous.
sorry, but your kid is your kid and is never to be used for commercial purposes. there are no excuses.
Someone should have told Bachmann and Palin that a long time ago …
eggzellent point, wken!
Hey, that was no excuse. It was just a statement of fact. In Hollywood, even the religious soon become completely soulless bastards.
How many parents have completely destroyed their kids trying to “make it” in Hollywood? (Lohan?) What we think of as Hollywood is really just the icing spread on a cake of broken lives and corpses that is the real Hollywood.
I agree. He doesn’t want Mittsie or any other Rethuglican to win, because that would mean he’d have to step aside for that Rethuglican to seek a second term. He’s trying to get his name out there, because he’ll have to run against Jebbie in 2016, and he needs name recognition.