IMHO, having the support of wealthy New Yorkers, is a strong indicator you’re doing everything wrong.
You don’t think wealthy New Yorkers have a stake in what happens to this country?
What it boils down to is getting a powerful candidate who is the antithesis of Obama and chomping at the bit to face off with Obama; who can bring many groups of voters together; one who will have long coattails and a huge war chest to go up against the Obama Chicago Machine and their union money and muscle; someone who wants to crush this anti-American mob and send them into oblivion.