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To: 2ndDivisionVet

2012 Republican primary. The candidate who most directly appealed to the base wound up being — after much searching — former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. But,... he was consistently financially outgunned by Mitt Romney, who went on to be the nominee.

Or go back to 2008 when former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was the base’s preferred candidate. .... He was outspent badly by John McCain, who, yup, went on to be the party’s nominee.

Kind of hard not to sense a pattern here. The guy with the biggest warchest won the nomination both times. The pattern probably goes back much further.

Today, the guy with the biggest warchest is Trump. So it’ll be a war of attrition between Trump and Bush, with the LSM & GOPe being squarely on Bush’s side.

10 posted on 07/15/2015 10:50:02 PM PDT by fr1 (How long does this go-->Thank you for your contribution. Your comment has been submitted for review.)

If Trump drops out, as many think he will (I don’t see it after going to all this trouble) then the two people with the biggest war chests will be John Ellis Bush and Ted Cruz.

13 posted on 07/15/2015 10:58:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)

“Today, the guy with the biggest warchest is Trump. So it’ll be a war of attrition between Trump and Bush, with the LSM & GOPe being squarely on Bush’s side.”

And Main Street America will be on Trump ‘s side.

14 posted on 07/15/2015 11:02:53 PM PDT by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)

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