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Support Waning, Romney Decides Against 2016 Bid (Big donors rule the GOP)
New York Times ^

Posted on 01/30/2015 8:43:09 PM PST by Windy City Conservative

The campaign to deny Mr. Romney another chance began almost immediately after he mused to donors at a Friday get-together in New York City on Jan. 9 that he was open to the possibility of another run. By that Sunday afternoon, William Oberndorf, a prominent California investor who supported Mr. Romney in both of his previous presidential campaigns, had emailed a group of 52 powerful Republicans, including former Secretary of State George Shultz, the investor Charles Schwab and the Michigan billionaire Betsy DeVos with a blunt message: we need to support someone else.

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These big money donors will be the death of the GOP. I don't like Romney, but who the heck is Mr. Oberndorf to have any say so on this election? This has got to stop. Is it Citizens United that has made all this possible? What's worse is a lot of these donors aren't even giving much of their own money, they are going around collecting money from a bunch of well heeled clueless fools. (i.e. Gidwitz in Illinois)

Even more humorous is that California and Illinois big wigs are involved. Big donors from two states that the GOP never wins anyway.

1 posted on 01/30/2015 8:43:09 PM PST by Windy City Conservative
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To: Windy City Conservative

Our BEST candidate too!

At least we still got Jeb and Christie...


2 posted on 01/30/2015 8:46:16 PM PST by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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3 posted on 01/30/2015 8:46:27 PM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: Windy City Conservative

They are trying to make sure that Jeb Bush is the only RINO in the field. Then he will win because there will be a half dozen conservatives who won’t know when to quit.


4 posted on 01/30/2015 8:48:23 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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The Bush family is part of the global oligarchy, so they are not about to let anyone but Jeb be the next president. They may invite Romney to the VP position now that he has proven he knows how to step aside when told to do so.


5 posted on 01/30/2015 8:49:47 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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How do you think that a two-bit loser like Romney, who had won a single election in 20 years of running, and who had be so dismal in that office that he couldn’t run for reelection, and left with 34% approval, managed to become the 2012 nominee in the first place?


6 posted on 01/30/2015 8:50:17 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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RE:”The Bush family is part of the global oligarchy, so they are not about to let anyone but Jeb be the next president. They may invite Romney to the VP position now that he has proven he knows how to step aside when told to do so.”

Another Bush-Clinton race?

7 posted on 01/30/2015 8:51:06 PM PST by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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Fauxahontus will be more likely the candidate than old kankles. Make no mistake, both parties are held in the palm of the oligarchy, so whomever we are finally allowed to vote over will be arranged completely. America has been the property of the globalist bankers since Johns robbed the treasury to lump all revenue together as a general fund, which is doled by debt accumulation to the euphemistically named federal reserve.


8 posted on 01/30/2015 8:57:09 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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Johns = Johnson ... demonic author of ‘the great society’


9 posted on 01/30/2015 8:58:24 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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No! Not another Bush.

Maybe can have to stop calling them RINOs because I guess they do represent what GOP is at least to the people within the party who have all the money and power.


10 posted on 01/30/2015 9:00:01 PM PST by skyman
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I will support the republican nomination over a democrat but I don't like seeing the field ran by big money like it is. I would rather see the big donor hold off pledging there support till we are closer to the primaries.
11 posted on 01/30/2015 9:06:31 PM PST by PCPOET7
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people seems to have perished from the earth, replaced by government of the money, by the Uniparty, for the oligarchs.


12 posted on 01/30/2015 9:09:46 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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Oberndorf does spend a lot on candidates:

https://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/?q=Oberndorf&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11

He is also is on of was on the Board of Directors of Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education.


13 posted on 01/30/2015 9:11:20 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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RE:”The Bush family is part of the global oligarchy, so they are not about to let anyone but Jeb be the next president. They may invite Romney to the VP position now that he has proven he knows how to step aside when told to do so.”

But the Bushes are used to the WH. They know where everything is.

14 posted on 01/30/2015 9:19:55 PM PST by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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As I stated when this began, after the election, it is going to take BILLION dollars to win in 2016.


15 posted on 01/30/2015 9:20:52 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: EternalVigilance

Government of the people, by the people, for the people seems to have perished from the earth, replaced by government of the money, by the Uniparty, for the oligarchs.


Exactly.


16 posted on 01/30/2015 9:34:10 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Maybe can have to stop calling them RINOs because I guess they do represent what GOP is at least to the people within the party who have all the money and power.

Fact is, we are now the Rinos (former Rino for me)...

17 posted on 01/30/2015 10:31:31 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Windy City Conservative

bookmark


18 posted on 01/30/2015 10:49:38 PM PST by dadfly
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