{"id":920,"date":"2012-07-05T22:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T02:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=920"},"modified":"2012-07-05T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T02:17:12","slug":"romney-searches-for-offshore-money-swore-he-left-it-next-to-bloombergs-cooler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/05\/romney-searches-for-offshore-money-swore-he-left-it-next-to-bloombergs-cooler\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Searches for Offshore Money &#8212; Swore He Left it Next to Bloomberg&#8217;s Cooler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_921\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/romneySkiddo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-921\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/romneySkiddo.jpg\" alt=\"Mitt and Ann Romney on a Sea-Doo watercraft\" title=\"Mitt and Ann Romney on a Sea-Doo watercraft\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" class=\"size-full wp-image-921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/romneySkiddo.jpg 650w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/romneySkiddo-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Where&#8217;d the dog go?  I hope he didn&#8217;t drown.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Mitt, don&#8217;t be such a wimp.  It makes you sound&#8230;Democratic.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Bermuda)  Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on vacation in Bermuda from a successful week of fundraising, searched fruitlessly up and down the beach for several hundred million dollars he had stashed away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dog-gonnit, I know it was somewhere around here.  I think.  I didn&#8217;t want anyone to get ahold of it, so I buried it in the sand next to Mike [Bloomberg]&#8217;s cooler.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/redCooler.jpg\" alt=\"Red Coleman Cooler\" title=\"Red Coleman Cooler\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/redCooler.jpg 500w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/redCooler-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/redCooler-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_924\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-924\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/yellowAndWhiteUmbrella.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow and white umbrellas on the beach\" title=\"Yellow and white umbrellas on the beach\" width=\"611\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/yellowAndWhiteUmbrella.jpg 611w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/yellowAndWhiteUmbrella-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll have another Mojito.  Do you have change for a million dollar bill?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It was a red cooler and he had it under a yellow and white umbrella next to a lifeguard station.  I remember there was a fat lady lying on her stomach&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Problem is, everyone has those yellow and white umbrellas.  They turn out to be <em>rented<\/em>.  Which is weird, because on this beach everyone can afford their own umbrellas, so it&#8217;s not like we need any kind of socialist suntan-avoidance system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And there&#8217;s like a million life guard stations and they all look the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chipwich.jpg\" alt=\"Chipwich\" title=\"Chipwich\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chipwich.jpg 550w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/chipwich-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Darn it, why did Bloomberg have to go off and get a Chipwich and leave me in the lurch?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh well, it&#8217;s not like I don&#8217;t have a bunch more money where that came from.  I just hope Bloomy was a pal and bought a couple Chippies for Ann and me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Us 1%-ers got to stick together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bermuda) Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on vacation in Bermuda from a successful week of fundraising, searched fruitlessly up and down the beach for several hundred million dollars he had stashed away. &#8220;Dog-gonnit, I know it was somewhere around here. 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