Mitt Romney to box Evander Holyfield
Yes, you read that right. It will be an exhibition match in Salt Lake City to benefit a charity that treats blindness and other vision problems. Aside from demonstrating that Romney’s not quite the inhibited guy he was often portrayed as, it illustrates once again what a basically nice guy he is.
I would like to know whether this will be done shirtless or not; my guess is a T-shirt for modesty’s sake. I ask only because I saw Romney up-close during the 2012 campaign, and I noted that he is in seemingly fantastic shape for a guy his age:
It was Romney who was most surprising. It’s often been remarked…that Romney is a handsome man who looks pretty good for his age. But now that I’ve seen him up-close and personal I would like to correct that: he looks better than his photos, and much younger. Except for the graying temples, he could pass for a man nearly half his age.
Is it clean-living (Romney the Mormon does not smoke or drink of even ingest coffee)? I don’t know, but whatever it is if he could bottle it he would make another gazillion dollars to add to his first fortune. What’s more, in this particular venue both men eschewed jackets for more casual wear, and thus it was possible to see that Romney is in great shape””and not just great shape for a 64-year-old man, either; great shape for anyone, although of a type more suited to the occupations of outfielder or runner or even dancer than linebacker or first baseman.
Somehow I overlooked “heavyweight boxer” at the time; he lacks the bulk. And many who observed him in the 2012 race feel he lacks the fight.
But I wish him well against Holyfield.
And it just so happens that, although I’m not a boxing fan at all, I was at my in-laws’ house during the infamous ear-bite fight and watched it live on TV, much to my shock and horror. So Holyfield occupies a warm spot in my heart as well.
Saw this yesterday. To say I was shocked is a bit of an understatement.
I ordinarily don’t pay any attention to boxing. But I’m curious how this will turn out.
yeah… this is important…
on what planet?
eyrth…
Junior Says: I’m curious how this will turn out.
Really?
Holyfield
Height: 6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
Weight: 226 lbs (102 kg)
While Romney
Height: 6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
the spread favors Holyfield…
by a wide margin…
this here is not worth news:
The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act…
The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with court rulings that hold that the office is not subject to the transparency law. The office handles, among other things, White House record-keeping duties like the archiving of e-mails.
cause tyrants dont need congress…
Artfldgr:
Not everything must be of the same importance. Some things are just fun.
It’s not a good idea to be heavy all the time.
And no, I can’t cover everything that is important. This is a blog, not a newsfeed.
Maybe Romney will have his own reality TV show next.
i wish newsfeeds cover everything..
but, on the eve of tyranny, would you think that some things are more important? what would you think if it was the night before kristalnacht? good time to discuss hair styles of poodles?
besides. this morning i found that i earn $40,000 under the average… so i have been cheated out of nearly 400k… my technology stolen… (exterminating my family since we cant afford one) my country works against me… and so on and so forth…
forgive me for not wanting to have a lot of fun while going down the toilet… i would prefer to celebrate AFTER we stop the swirly… a matter of priority…
just think how what you just said favors
nero fiddling while rome burns
rearanging the deck chairs on the titanic
playing canasta while the plane is crashing
🙂
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i dont know…
but for me… with the negs getting worse
i cant seem to laugh much any more!!!
SBA says i cant have a loan
H1-B visas are diluting my salary for the 3rd decade and they are going to increase them
black on white violence has attacked me twice, but i cant move, build a company, have children, and so on, as i am a white guy who is evil and destined for the extermination pile.
not much fun there. is there?
then there was the stroke my employer caused but cant be sued as the lawyers want protected class based lawsuits figuring juries wont favor me even if i am in the right
it goes on and on, and i just want a fighting chance
so sorry i dont see the value in frivolity
but then again, frivolity is something that has always been the domain of the fairer sex… who are now crusading over my farts, how i sit in the subway, and how hateful it is if i hold the door open (a recent article about a study proving that one)
then there is the talk about my privelege and my being racist as i get my coffee at starbucks..
then there is THIS eye opener:
Common Core is the Communist Core I Went Through in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilaSvC9PGKk
not having much fun…
as i am desperately working till i drop to just have basics.. while ducking attackers… and being stuck never having a raise or promotion for the rest of my life where i work… (predetermined!)
not enough room in this world
good thing i am hoping things end soon
i have no hope of anything else
so i guess: PARTY ON!!!
in the words of clinton
What difference does it make?
Art –
Tense stories often have moments of quick humor. The writers know that the audience needs a little frivolity mixed in with the serious now and again to release some of the tension. Otherwise, they’ll go nuts.
It’s the same with real life. There’s lots of serious stuff going on. It’s being discussed. There’s also some odd little bits that aren’t so serious. We need to spend a little time looking at them as well, or we’ll go nuts.
As for how it turns out –
No, the result isn’t in dispute. But I’m curious as to how that result will be reached.
Artfldgr:
Your argument is misplaced.
I probably spend an inordinate amount of time writing this blog, focusing on the big picture. I have dedicated a great deal of my life to it for ten full years, with very little financial reward. I bow to no one in my dedication to trying to prevent what I see as some very dark and dangerous happenings. I am hardly a frivolous person. Au contraire.
But even political people laugh, have fun, eat, exercise, etc., and talk and/or write about lighter things sometimes. In fact, they must do so in order to rejuvenate themselves and keep themselves sane and human.
Artfldgr:
I thought this was Neo-Neocons website, was I wrong?
Its not a “war on women” it’s a “war on men” and on masculinity.
The idea of “nice guy” Romney participating in an exhibition fight with Holyfield for charity, and Romney’s ”image” is a perfect segue into a discussion of our image of men in this country, and how the Left, feminists, and their almost wholly dominated TV and movies have pursued a relentless, decade’s long campaign of usually presenting men as either violent, out of control, brutal and demonic or, more often, as lumbering, clueless, impractical oafs, as losers, with women, on the other hand, portrayed as intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and morally superior to them in virtually all respects–the old sitcom, “The “Honeymooners,” comes immediately to mind.
A perfect current example of this wildly skewed portrayal of men is the new dark comedy, the SF/fantasy show, “The Last Man on Earth,” (I say fantasy because, although we are led to believe that all but a likely handful of people on the entire Earth have supposedly been wiped out by some viral plague, we never once see a dead body, only totally empty cities, houses, and shops, and clear, car and jam free roads).
As you might imagine, that “last man” is profoundly depressed since–after traveling to every state in the continental U. S. searching for survivors–he has found not one other person alive.
He believes himself to be absolutely alone, his old life and all the people in it absolutely and irrevocably gone forever, and him the last man on Earth, and all the women dead.
So, in his profound depression-I’d imagine to pass the time and to keep from killing himself–he does a lot of stupid, juvenile things–he amasses an enormous collection of porno magazines, breaks into a mansion and drops trash where he generates it until it covers the floor and furniture, burns things up with a flamethrower he has found, uses a swimming pool as his toilet, he talks to a favorite female mannequin in a store display window, mimics Tom Hanks in “Castaway” and talks to basketballs he has drawn faces on, and he often lies in a blow up kiddie pool as he drinks the Margarita mix he has filled it up with.
Then, he bumps into a woman. An older, not very attractive, pushy woman who is, in her own way, as disturbed as he is, as we see her irrationally insist on him stopping at stop signs in completely empty Tucson, and on his not parking in a handicapped spot when they go to loot a big box hardware store.
Moreover, she immediately starts to henpeck, berate, and bully him into changing what she doesn’t like about him, pushing him to do what she wants.
Then, good Catholic that she tells him she is, on day two or three of their acquaintance she starts to push and bully him into “marrying” her so that they can have “legitimate” children to start to repopulate the planet.
A day or two later, she has set up the ceremony in an empty church, recorded the ceremony on a boom box, gets dressed up as a bride, filled the house she has occupied next to his with the makings of a bridal celebration, and drags him to the altar, although you can see he is still enormously depressed, and really wants no part of this, as he hesitates for quite a long time–eyes roaming all around–before he can, almost inaudibly, bring himself to say, “I do,” because, tormented and profoundly lonely as he is, he wants to have sex.
Thereafter, she regularly drags him to bed to “do his duty,” and she is as irritating and obnoxious in bed as out.
Then, they literally crash into another survivor, this one a younger, much more attractive and prettier woman–who, it seems, immediately “bonds” with the last man’s “wife” (its a “woman” thing)–and now the man becomes a glaringly obvious, slobbering, lying fool, trying to get into the new woman’s pants as the she tells him ”she is horny” but, of course, can’t do anything with him because he is “married.”
So, the last man goes to tell his “wife” that he wants out, and she bats her eyes at him, smiles like a Pterodactyl, and tells him how much she loves him, and how she can’t wait for their first child, and he doesn’t want to hurt her, so he can’t go through with telling her he wants out.
This is comedy, true, and a dark one, but this is how ideas are formed, and “the last” and, indeed, pretty much all men, it seems, are portrayed in TV sitcoms and in many movies as either innately violent and brutal, or as innately clueless, incompetent, bumbling, inept, slovenly, uncivilized, hormone-driven idiots, and the far superior women are running circles around “the last man” in this dark comedy, and apparently unbeknownst to him, are playing him like a cheap Chinese violin.
And that–to one degree or the other and with few exceptions–is basically the simplistic, cartoonish view of men portrayed in virtually all of our TV sitcoms, on stage, in books, and in many of our movies, greatly influencing our image of men, and who and what we believe they innately are.
This is insane. Evander could kill him.
What you said: Clean living. But he had better be careful in the ring!
I think it’s great. As you say, it shows people who he is. It’s sad that all the great stories about Mitt got drowned out by Obama’s baloney. I’m glad he’s coming back into the public eye.
Cornhead:
Naw, Romney will just do his famous rope-a-dope.
One of my cousins met Holyfield in Atlanta, working for a charity there (she does PR). She said Evander is a “perfect gentleman,” and everyone liked him enormously. Also that he’s a far cry from the Mike Tyson types in boxing.
Holyfield — get that name — is going to take a dive — and use the proceeds for charity.
As for Mitt, he used to be a contender…
No he’s a cleanly laundered pol!
Oh! The irony…
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Tip for Holyfield:
Mitt has “no comeback” — so you can jab away until it’s jibberish.
Wolla, the man in that show sounds like a perfect schlub, but the woman is a harpy, non? and worse PITA than he.
Doesn’t sound like the showrunners like either sex.
“Is it clean-living (Romney the Mormon does not smoke or drink of even ingest coffee)?”
Yes, it’s clean living. Many years ago some friends of mine briefly flirted with investigating Mormonism. On our way to eat out, we stopped briefly at a get together at a Temple. There was a wide variety of ages present and I was astonished at how everyone looked so young. Our ‘vices’ have a price. But vices have their place.
They need a clever alliterative name for this fight. The Dust-Up in Deseret?
Art: “yeah… this is important…
on what planet?”
Neo: “Not everything must be of the same importance. Some things are just fun.”
And, thank you neo for that fun!
With Obama in the White House and all that; and the awful news coming out of Tunis – we could use a little fun in our lives. If for no other reason than to remind us of something other than the “serious” stuff. The fun stuff is what keeps us “human” and sane” (You said that better Neo)
So, thank you Neo for all of your hard (but, very interesting!) work.
On topic; I have never had any interest in boxing. But, Romney and Holyfield might just make me want to watch.
Romney may be “out” but he isn’t down! And kudos to Holyfield; Beverly, you are right about him being a gentleman. Other black fighters might not want to “betray their race” by being seen sparring with a White Mormon.
Art, you ever thought about boxing out the feminists you work with at work or who harass you at your home?
Because that’s usually what makes a man someone people obeys, though power comes in different shapes.
http://takimag.com/article/never_trust_anyone_who_hasnt_been_punched_in_the_face/print#axzz3UUWD8kFK