Is this racist? If it was the other way around, the Left would be crying foul:
President Barack Obama's campaign doesn't seem too troubled by Newt Gingrich's ascendancy to the top of the Republican primary polls.
Time's Mark Halperin reports that at a briefing for reporters today in Washington, Obama adviser David Axelrod said of Gingrich: "The higher a monkey climbs on the pole the more you can see his butt."
But Axelrod didn't shy away from criticizing Romney — so far the singular target of Democratic attacks, even as he's lost some traction in national and early state polling — taking a dig at both his $10,000 bet with Rick Perry and his career in private equity.
"Generally his practice has been to bet other people’s money, not his own," Axelrod said.
Halperin adds that Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Romney's bet "may end up being Mitt Romney's grocery-score scanner moment." That is a reference to the incident in the 1992 presidential campaign where President George H. W. Bush is said to have exclaimed he was "amazed," even though they had been widely used for over a decade — a moment that brought on charges that he was out of touch.
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