Santorum raised 1 million just today. Perry just blew 6 million for a fifth place ribbon. How much money does Perry have anymore and is anyone bothering to send him any donations? Perry is the one who will be out of gas at the side of the road before he even gets to the SC election.
Well, I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
I am also quite curious as to how much money Perry has currently. It would be interesting if someone had (reliable) numbers of how much powder Perry has. He went into Iowa with quite the powder keg, but yesterday there was a comment from someone in his camp that money is no longer an afterthought. I hope someone knows where he stands on funds, because from now on things will be getting more expensive. And not just for Perry.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. But, let's allow the process to play out.
Worked for McLame last time. He was DOA and out of $$$. And viola.... he's the nom because CBS said so.
“From your link on Santorum: Unless significant funding magically appears, he is liable to run out of gas alongside the road somewhere between South Carolina and Florida.
Santorum raised 1 million just today. Perry just blew 6 million for a fifth place ribbon. How much money does Perry have anymore and is anyone bothering to send him any donations? Perry is the one who will be out of gas at the side of the road before he even gets to the SC election.”
Funny you should go straight to the running-out-of-gas metaphor. Some people actually noticed that Iowa caucus-goers voted for the pro-ethanol candidates and against the anti-ethanol candidates. You don’t have to go any further than that. Rick Santorum is still running - ON ETHANOL!
Actually that was Perry's second election loss----he did not officially enter the first go-round---the Iowa straw poll---but manipulated the vote from Texas. That was supposed to take a self-assured Perry over the top.
Instead he garnered a pitiful 700 write-ins. Michelle Bachmann won with 4000 votes. Perry came stomping into Iowa flashing the victory sign as if he had actually won. In fact...he was the front-runner for a short period of time....until the first debate.
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How much money does Perry have......who is sending him donations?
Perry entered the prez race with three PACs (that we know of).....teeming with money.
He was raising 2012 money while campaigning for governor, promising trusting Texans he would not run for president if they reelected him....b/c he knew a sitting governor running for president was more credible.
One crony PAC---Make America Great Again---raised $55 million. Probably some of that was used for Perry's ploy to make himself look good early in the Iowa caucuses----saying he had "raised more than any other candidate"----$17 mill.
So there's lots of money standing by.
We'll soon be looking at Perry crowing that his fifth place loss garnered him a huge chunk of "donations."
Pockets are deep in Texas. It goes along with having the healthiest economy in the nation. ;)
Seriously, that wouldn't be the reason he dropped out. It would be because he's pragmatic enough to know he couldn't get elected, and to proceed would hurt our chances of getting rid of his arch enemy and Chief Violator of the 10th Amendment - barack hussein obama. I think he would need to hear it from southern voters, though. Not just Iowans. He's a fighter to the core, as you can see by the YouTube clip i posted, so it'll take voters from closer to home to make him pack his suitcase.
Pockets are deep in Texas. It goes along with having the healthiest economy in the nation. ;)
Seriously, that wouldn't be the reason he dropped out. It would be because he's pragmatic enough to know he couldn't get elected, and to proceed would hurt our chances of getting rid of his arch enemy and Chief Violator of the 10th Amendment - barack hussein obama. I think he would need to hear it from southern voters, though. Not just Iowans. He's a fighter to the core, as you can see by the YouTube clip i posted, so it'll take voters from closer to home to make him pack his suitcase.
However, telling Perry to bail at this point, with a share of 7 delegates on the table to be split 4 ways from the IA voters, is somewhat premature.
So what is there to worry about? This is a wide open process. There’s still 56 states to go.