Watched a guy call the bluff of a room full of Romney supporters yesterday

[NNN0LHI]

There is a quiet fellow who usually just eats his lunch in the local restaurant. He usually never says anything to anybody. Just eats and leaves. I don't even know his politics.

About a dozen Romney supporters were in there yucking it up about how Romney was going to win big.

This guy calmly pulled out his wallet and counted out 10 one hundred dollar bills and laid them on the counter in front of him.

Then he asked the group of Obama haters if any one of them wanted to bet a thousand dollars that President Obama would not win this election he would cover the bet. Said if someone wanted to take the bet he would let the restaurant owner hold the cash until after the election.

There wasn't one taker.

It was a marvelous thing to witness.

Don

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. It sounds like this guy ate their lunch.

[Fumesucker]

4. Drank their milkshake..

[BlueJazz]

2. Most likely none of them had a thousand dollars since they've voted for....

...Republicans all their lives.
I see people all day long (Computer work in their homes) and usually the
right-wing people, here in Florida, are not doing very well when it comes to finances...
...thanks to Prick Scott.

[ErikJ]

6. Ironic, I have a couple homeless RWers living in my backyard.

[gateley]

18. +1

[uponit7771]

34. +1

[wildeyed]

3. Ha! I would have paid money to see that! n/t

[yardwork]

5. Wow. What a great story. K&R

[brewens]

7. I've done the same thing to one of my gun nut friends twice. In front of

about the same bunch of guys. Back when Clinton was running and when Obama was running. He' was going off on how they were gunna git our guns. I bet called him on it. $500 bucks says, you don't get any guns confinscated. Four years or eight years, not one! He wouldn't take it either time.

I did stipulate that he couldn't do anything stupid to cause the cops to take his guns. He'd be a candidate for brandishing a gun in a road rage incident or something like that some day.

[reflection]

16. I've got a $200 bet riding on repeal of the ACA

with one of the resident RWers here at work. He is convinced that Romney will have the ACA repealed if he wins. I say no way.

He was even foolish enough to not qualify the bid with respect to the makeup of the Congress. He's sure that Romney, if he manages to pull off a win, will have enough groundswell to steamroll any Democratic opposition. The rules of the bet are 1) that Romney has 2 years to do it. (Since he said he'd do it on day one, that shouldn't be a problem. ), and
2) that the law has to be outright repealed, not saddled with amendments and otherwise tweaked.

If Romney loses and the bet is off, great. If he wins, at least I can take solace in the fact that I will make the easiest $200 ever. This guy might be a RWer, but he's pretty straight about honoring promises. I have no doubt he'll pay me if he loses. And I will reciprocate if need be.

But I don't think I will have to - here is my rationale as to why the ACA will stand: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002891537

[aggiesal]

41. The only recent time wihen the government took guns from citizens ...

was George W. Shrub administriationl.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/08/secret-history-hurricane-katrina

He hired (i.e. Dept. of Homeland Security) Blackwater
to patrol New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, and
confiscated any weapons that they came across.

Next time some RW nut job talks about guns and
how the libruls are going to take them, just throw
them that nugget.

[klook]

44. Exactly right and a damn good point. (n/t)

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

48. Well, it was a bunch of neegras, so they had to take the guns from the colored people.

Can't stand for us to have any guns. Racist fucks!!!

[heaven05]

8. wow

slam dunk in their face!

[Mira]

9. A beautiful sight to see and experience. LOVE IT n/t

[HopeHoops]

10. Excellent! Pull out your foot and put your money where your mouth is instead.

[MindPilot]

11. I want to know.

How is it you are in the company of people who carry that kind of cash around?

[The Doctor.]

27. Lots of people do.

If you're in a diner, you could very easily be sitting next to someone with several grand in cash on them.

[Ikonoklast]

47. I routinely carry at least that much cash...usually, more than that.

When a fill-up costs $900.00, you do it two times a week, and truck stops offer $0.05 a gallon discounts for cash, well, I pay in cash.

[INdemo]

12. I made a similar bet in 96' only for 500

only the Repub decided it wasn't necessary for anyone to hold the money...We shook on it(as wittinesses observed) and now 16 years later he still hasn't paid up....

[MsPithy]

13. Now, that ...

is much more like a Republican!

[lpbk2713]

15. Looks like they cover their bets the same way they run elections.

Chalk that one up to an expensive lesson well learned.
Sorry you had to learn the hard way.

[allan01]

14. re:Watched a guy call the bluff of a room full of Romney supporters yesterday

neat post i belong to a church where the congregation is mostly democrat. the priest is over the top repug. has on his suv , dont tread on me , take our country back. and of course romney . if the bishop found this , hed be admonished for this . one day we ( the congerigation) said we dont want to hear about it ( meanining your slush rimshod , shean slanderer , or bill o liely) commentary during coffee hour ! back to the post , a man who put his money into action

[LittleGirl]

39. I would take a photo of those bumper stickers

and send it to the bishop and ask is this what our church represents?

[dimbear]

51. Wait a minute. Have I got this right? Your priest is backing Romney?

Buy him a Book of Mormon and underline the parts where it tells what Joseph Smith thought about the Catholic Church.

Doesn't work as well if you're Episcopalian........

[Orrex]

17. I call bullshit

I don't believe that are a dozen actual Romney supporters, let alone in one place like that.

[RedStateLiberal]

31. LOL! I'm guessing they're more Obama haters than Romney supporters. (nt)

[Lex]

19. Cool story, bro.

[libodem]

20. I heart this story

[Unca Jim]

21. Yeah, I offered a 4-1 $100 bet to a winger...

and he took it.

He'll never pay me when he loses, but I will get bragging rights...and Obama as President!

[TexasTowelie]

35. Congratulations for making it to post #420!

[zentrum]

22. Actually i think he just humiliated them

And they will not be really incentivized to get out the vote for Romney.

It's not that they didn't really think Romney wouldn't win. It's just that they couldn't put 100 in escrow. The guy is a rich guy--who walks around with 1000 dollars?--and he dominated them through his greater wealth.

[The Doctor.]

28. No, what he did was make them face their doubts.

Wingnuts LOVE to brag, boast, and generally just make noise about things, but as soon as they are forced to face reality, they suddenly realize they may be in over their heads.

Take the tea-partier on social security who says he wants to abolish social programs. Ask him to sign a petition saying that he wants to get rid of such 'government largesse' and personally wants nothing to do with any government 'hand outs' or social programs of any kind. Watch him sign it with gusto and a smile, put on a real show of what a 'stand on his own two feet' guy he is. Then tell him, and everyone that signed it how proud you are of their self-sufficiency and independence from government hand-outs and how you're going to make sure that every name on the list goes straight to the social security and medicare offices so they know how independent and unwilling to take tax dollars all the signers are....

Then watch his face.

No, what this guy in the restaurant did was force those twits to actually think of all the stupid shit Romney has said and done, and about what his chances really are.

And they didn't like the reality they were forced to face.

[Scootaloo]

37. Well, as Romney supporters, that's what they respect

God knows, that ferret-faced motherfucker hasn't got anything else going for him.

[Curmudgeoness]

45. Who walks around with 1000 dollars?

Well, it is possible that this guy hears these assholes spouting off day in and day out, and he purposely got this money together just to do this. He may not usually have that kind of money on him. I can see that. He certainly has shut them up, and I bet he will be able to eat in peace from now on....they will start talking about the weather when he walks in.

[Walk away]

53. I was in a cash business for many years and by lunch time on Friday...

I could easily have four or five thousand in cash and checks on me. I looked like I mowed lawns for a living so no one ever bothered me.

[harun]

23. Sh*t get's real when $$$ is invovled. Especially with the greedy pigs of the GOP

[hamsterjill]

24. Wow! You were lucky to have been witness to that!

Sounds like one of those moments that don't come around nearly often enough!

Kudos to the gentleman for his actions!

[wendylaroux]

25. Fanatstic!!! The next time you see

this fine fellow,please tell him the wonderful people of DU,think he is ----AWESOME!!!!

[Plucketeer]

42. Yeah, that would be great. In fact......

offer to buy him his lunch and I'll pay for it!

[scheming daemons]

26. all you have to do is look at intrade

When people are forced to put their money where their mouth is, it is revealing.

Obama is pushing 60% chance to win on intrade and romney is below 40%.

3/5 of the people who are putting their money where their mouth is are betting on Obama.

[Historic NY]

29. I won a hundred on a RW hater when Obama was elected...it was pure pleasure

to relieve him of his cash.

[thelordofhell]

30. Want to make an easy 10 grand? Do the same bet with this guy..............

[The Wizard]

40. Mormons don't gamble

with their own money.

[patrice]

32. Those were probably the kind of voters who just vote by who they think is going to win too.

There are lots of voters who know nothing so they treat their vote like a sporting event and the only thing that matters is who they think is going to win.

Money really TALKS to those kinds of people so that fellow just really destroyed their confidence in Romney as a winner.

[TeamPooka]

33. awesome post to start my day Thank you!

[Blue Owl]

36. Way to stick it to the Itty Bitty Mitty Committee!

n/t

[Bluerthanblue]

38. Ha!!

perfect-

Wish I could have been there.

[Liberal_in_LA]

43. !

[Phlem]

46. Your so lucky to have witnessed

an awesome WIN!



-p

[Phlem]

50. Learn more about Mormanism

http://www.pbs.org/mormons/view/

-p

[4lbs]

49. My first time using profanity on this board, but....

FUCK ROMNEY!

[RagAss]

55. Well, welcome the fuck aboard !

[JI7]

52. i wouldn't be surprised if Romney Campaign paid random people around the country to do this

go to public places or other places with lots of people and try to talk him up.

i'm pretty sure he paid people to pack some of those republican debates.

[Odin2005]

54. Way too funny!

[Tennessee Gal]

56. I once won $50 off a winger.

I asked the question which Party had the only President to resign from office and could he name the President. He could not name the President, which of course was Nixon. Then he claimed that Nixon was a Democrat.

Oh, the stupidity! Taking that money was sweet!

[greytdemocrat]

57. Cool!

That must have been great!!!

[Tennessee Gal]

58. Another story ...........

I used to eat lunch almost every day in my small town locally owned meat and 3 diner.

There was a big round table where a bunch of men congregated and discussed politics. One of them rambled on and on about great things the Republicans in office were doing.

My friend and I usually sat at a table next to them and I listened to this guy until one day I could not take it any more. He spouted off some idiotic political lie. I spoke up.

I said loud enough for about half the restaurant to hear me: "You know what? You are just like every other Republican I have ever met. You are full of shit!"

About half the restaurant erupted in loud laughter. He hung his head and left quickly. He still ate there periodically, but I never heard him say another political thing.