Rick Perry: Mitt Romney’s $10,000 Bet Was ‘Out of Touch’

I thought it was out of touch, as well. My husband and I were both saying “it must be nice to have $10000.00 to throw around like that”. Doesn’t give Perry and props, though.

So according to Perry, we need to go back to the “GOOD OLD DAYS”, when Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Muslim, and Atheist students would have to LEAVE THE CLASSROOM during the prayers, thus conveniently making them targets of the RIDICULE OF THEIR loving Christian CLASSMATES. What a great time of BIGOTRY IT WAS!!!

If the $10,000 amount bothered you, then you have a touch of envy and fair amount of greed. What a joke – these politicians raise millions and millions of dollars to woo your vote and you get hung up on $10,000. What if he would have said 1 million. Right off you would have known he was serious, since this seems to be a serial accusation from Perry, and you would never have expected the bet to be taken. People, pundits and politicians all want Mitt to show some fight. Well as soon as he does, “he’s out of touch”. I’ll bet you $10,000 if Newt gets the nomination, four more years with Obama.

All children currently have the right to pray in school. They don’t have the right to have an ORGANIZED prayer session in school. But if they want to pray quietly by themselves before a test, they have that right. (How would anyone know in order to stop it, anyway? The thought police?)

The “bet” was to call out a lie from a liar. Mitt didn’t need to have a penny in his pocket to make that bet, knowing that Rick Perry was lying to the American people.

The only people that are making a big deal about this are you at ABC. Even CNN barely mentioned it, but your commentators were repeating it immediately after the debate. First, the bet was made to shut Rick Perry up. He has repeatedly tried to obfuscate this issue and pander to the people who just cannot differentiate between an issue being addressed at the state level rather than at the federal level. It is no secret that Mitt Romney has $10,000 to win this bet. He was making the bet with Rick Perry, who also has $10,000 to put where his mouth is. How about pointing out these facts: Gingrich does not have the necessary experience to fix this economy – he only has legislative experience, not executive experience. By contrast, even putting aside Gingrich’s personal history, he is not presidential – the comment about the Palestinians is something no one would expect a president to say, as well as that comment in a previous debate which no one picked up on about taking out Iranians in a way that could not be traced back to us.

I FINALLY got to hear from another candidate that wasn’t in the show last night. John Huntsman. Don’t get me wrong, I support Obama but Huntsman is a guy that I could actually feel comfortable with if he were only given the chance to voice his views. It seems to me he deserves a chance to be heard. Newts mouth could only resort in trouble between the US and other countries. He seems to feel it’s his right to insult people. Give Huntsman a chance.

I think the press is making more of a big deal out of it than anything. Did we not already know all these guys are rich?? Number 1, you can’t run for Pres in this country without being rich! Which is a travesty in itself, but really, is there nothing more important to talk about ABC?

Besides making a bet of $10,000 which was tasteless and classless when for some people in Iowa might make close to that for a year of hard earned wages…I thought Romney is a Mormon? Why is he making bets or wagers then? Must not be a “practicing Mormon”

Too low and Perry would have accepted because it would be chump change to lose and yet seem credible at the time. Too high and Romney would obviously not seem serious. The amount was about right to call out Perry if he was serious about his talking point. Which proved that he wasn’t willing to stand his ground on his assertion.
Perry even lied by say that he wasn’t a betting man. Geee…. let’s Google for Perry’s history on wagers and bets.

The Establishment are propping up their NEO-CON. DOWN with NEWT!!! GO Dr. PAUL!!!!!!!

This was the first thing that came to my mind. I couldn’t believe he hit on such a big figure and it sounded bad. I don’t care why the bet was brought up.

“Out of Touch”? I’ll tell you what’s out of touch. As the voters continually choose Ron Paul, the Television media drifts further away from reality. The media points to their “polls”. But, this is completely disingenuous. They subjects polled are skewed older and are contacted through land line telephones. Yet, Paul still finishes in outright first or “2nd”. This, of course, ignores the very LARGE group of voters that no longer use land lines. Ron Paul leads this group by wides margins. Now, TOTALLY IGNORED, is the fact that in all the polls Ron Paul leads independents by large double digits. The silver lining is, that by the time the Television news outlets that have taken LOTS of money in exchange for their awkward silence notice the runaway train that is Paul, it will be too late. Once the voting starts WE WIN.

It is amazing how disrespectful the press is of Ron Paul. At least ABC included him in the debates last night. I watched a CBS debate last month where Ron Paul was asked ONE question! NBC had Ron Paul on Meet the Press this morning and never really asked about his agenda/campaign or allowed him to discuss it. They used him to try and feed the flames (media made up flames) between Newt and Romney. Disgusting.

This group is still a bottomless bag of peanuts. None of them are up to running for president of this great country.

10,000 bet? How about a ham? More appropriate.

I don’t think Uncle Rick knows how to play to his base, but if they don’t balance the budget, we will become another Uruguay or Nicaragua. We need to get Mugabebama out of there.

I think Mr. Perry would’ve given ‘$50’000′ to have Mr. Romney spout that comment, and it came gratis! Talk about Christmas coming early. Leaving the stage, Mr. Perry must’ve been sighing, ‘I’m so glad it wasn’t ME this time!

Perry is a clown. It’ll be sad to see him go.

I thought it was out of touch, as well. My husband and I were both saying “it must be nice to have $10000.00 to throw around like that”. Doesn’t give Perry and props, though.

Posted by: missywiss
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Since it’s common sense to know that unless you are at least somewhat wealthy it would be extremely difficult to run for office. The sum of $10,000 is not a lot of money to most Presidential candidates.

Was it the right thing for Romney to say? Probably not but there have been far worse things said in a debate.

I find it interesting how the liberals are the ones who are making this statement such a big deal and most Republicans are not. The liberals evidently want Romney out of the race early for they know he poses the greatest threat to Obama.

You all need to stop and listen to what John Huntsman has to say. He was interviewed this morning by Christianne Amanpour and he actually seems to be a viable candidate. Give him a chance and at least hear him out. Newt is not electable. For some reason Republicans don’t like Romney. Bachman is too radical and Perry, well, that speaks for itself. I am a Democrat and I support Obama but Huntsman has ideas that even I can agree with. He could possibly get my vote. But nobody’s listening to him. At least give him a chance to voice his view.

Posted by: howdymo1
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For some reason Republicans don’t like Romney. ….Actually, it’s your party who doesn’t like Romney. Romney is the one who can beat Obama.

Huntsman was originally Obama’s ambassador to China and judging by his views on global warming I find it hard to believe he’s campaigning as a Republican.

Mitt Romney was out of touch with Iowa voters, TWO WAYS:

1. $10,000 is a heck of a lot of money to them.

2. Fundamentalists among the Christian Right do NOT believe in betting. Mitt’s offer was just another reminder to fundamentalists that Romney wasn’t one of them.

Huntsman was originally Obama’s ambassador to China and judging by his views on global warming I find it hard to believe he’s campaigning as a Republican.

Posted by Spike:

So for that reason alone you’re going to write him off? What about any other ideas he may have? That seems pretty shallow to me. Even I, as a Democrat, am willing to have an open mind and listen to what he has to say which to this point is very little because of all the other loud mouths that are running.

I really don’t like how Ron Paul is being ignored from the media. The man has had consistent conservatives values and has never flipped his views. If you watch the entire debate, you’ll see that he did quite well, although the media won’t acknowledge this. I’m not asking you to support him, i only ask that you listen to his views and his positions with the evidence that he gives. I also ask you to remember that this man has always done what he promised he would do, and never flipped his opinion.

I’ll bet a million dollars that everyone reading this at some time in their life said “I’ll bet a million dollars”… I do not have a million dollars, and I suspect that many (if not all) that are reading this lack that amount of cash… it’s a way of saying “put up, or shut up”.

Anyone who read anything other than that into what Romney said is a moron.

good grief – mitt romney is rich? WHO KNEW??
by the way ricky, i’m available as vice-preisident – I KNOW 7 OF THE 9.

Out of touch with Americans for making a bet?

Places like Las Vegas and Atlantic City are prime vacation spots for Americans, so much so that they’ve legalized gambling in Cleveland to try and cash in on American’s love affair with gambling. This is not to even mention the billions that are collectively spent on the lottery. Gambling is as American as apple pie and illegal immigration.

Yeah, someone’s out of touch alright…

I think $10000 would buy around 1 minute of air time.

“I was taken a little aback. Driving out to the station this morning, I’m pretty sure I didn’t drive by a house that anyone in Iowa would even think about that a $10,000 bet was even possible, so a little out of touch with the normal Iowa citizen,” Does anyone else find this comment as “out of touch”, if not more so, than Romney’s 10K bet? I’m sure that there was one or more of those houses, owned and occupied by an Iowa citizen that does not accurately indicate the actual wealth of the persons inside. I personally have known several people who reside in a modest home, yet own very sucessful businesses and their investments have made them millionaires several times over. Despite this they choose not to put on aires instead they reinvest in their business and employees as well as the community. Something these inflated ego candidates can never relate to or understand.

What shocked me even more.was that not one other person on stage took advantage of that gaffe by Fat Cat Mitt Romney. How anybody running for this job today think of making a public 10,000 bet over a book quote! Wow thats because everyone of them dont have a clue about realtime issues and concerns of Real America! What was even more insane was that he did this in Iowa! Wow that scary!