Posted on 05/16/2011 6:22:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
America’s got a fee-vah and the only prescription is … Mitt Romney?
The all-but-declared Republican presidential contender, who has kept his head low for much of the year as he collected cash, raised $10.25 million in a single day Monday after bringing together his network of wealthy donors to dial for dollars in a city with no shortage of them. It’s a hefty one-day total that Romney’s team hopes will show his strength in the emerging GOP field…
During his 2008 run for the GOP nomination, Romney used more than $40 million of his own money to pay for campaigns in Iowa and New Hampshire. Victories there never materialized, and Romney ended up losing the nomination to McCain.
Romney launched that bid with a phone bank fundraiser in Boston in which 400 supporters and Romney raised more than $6.5 million. But while that event was open to reporters, Romney’s camp was much more guarded this time in Las Vegas. Aides refused to allow reporters into the phone bank room, and they wouldn’t say how much his second White House bid would cost.
Says John Podhoretz, “I remember when Romney raised $6.5 million in one day in 2007. That really worked.” His team claimed this morning that they expected to raise only $2-3 million, but those expectations were as genuine as GOP spin doctors last fall declaring that any net gain in the House over, oh, say, 20 seats would be a big deal. The lower the bar is set, the more impressive the high-hurdling seems. The thing is, Romney doesn’t need to flex his muscles with this; everyone understands that fundraising is his big strength, thanks to a stable of wealthy donors. And doing it via the same sort of event he held four years ago only invites the sort of comparison made by J-Pod about his chances.
I guess he figured that after months of bad press on the right about RomneyCare and how his frontrunner status is paper thin, it was time to force the media to say something positive. Meanwhile, though, with Huckabee now out and Iowa suddenly in play, there’s pressure on him to get in the race there and prove that he can win even in social-con strongholds — and a big fundraising day like this only increases that pressure. If he’s lapping the field on money, there’s less of an excuse him for not to compete, which means ironically that by trying to set the bar low this morning for his fundraising haul, he’s inadvertently now set it higher for states like Iowa and South Carolina where he’ll have a tough time winning.
Even if the republicans were deluded enough to nominate him, the general election would be a wipe out.
Leave it up to the RNC to do what they can to get him nominated.
I would think that you’d prefer a candidate who acted strategically. Why rush things?
As the saying goes: “Don’t shoot, until you see the whites of their eyes.” And: “keep your powder dry”. It seems to me that Sarah is following those maxims. Those with an itchy trigger finger are likely to find themselves short of ammo, before the battle is over.
We may see enormous monies spent but the focus will center on LEADERSHIP and INTEGRITY.
Neither ROMNEY nor OBOZO have enough money to BUY either.
LOL..Nope!...shes gonna teach the country how to become President of the United States on a dime when all others spend a dollar......think about it...What a wonderful lesson ...Its about your beliefs...not your money...
Those who want to see Obama win a second term...
All it takes is money to win the election. Just ask President Perot and President Forbes.
The left (he was elected by MASS. voters, so he can't be THAT bad).
The Mormons.
RINO-lovers.
Morons fooled by his slick talk and looks.
“My fear is that these contributors are the same crony capitalists who have benefited from the Obama administration.”
That’s your answer.
It belongs to Sarah.
Period.
I don't think you are far off the mark!
Think AMA (Obama/Romney-care), LGBTQW&P(wacked&perverted) crowd, as well as all of the hard line leftist union thugs of Mass!
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If the choice is 0bama or Romney I might just stay home. Romney and his Mormon brainwashing are an abomination.
Oh my: Romney raises $10.25 million — in a day (Who are the people giving?)
Democrats, liberals, the media
It seems to me, judging by the past, that if Romney was the next 4-year or even 8-year GOP pres, there's a very high probability that three things would happen:
1. Voters would become more cynical and angry, and the challenge of "There's not a dime's bit of difference between Republicans and Democrats" would be harder and harder to argue. This would lead even MORE so to --
2. A Congress moved to the left in the mid-terms, as voters become more apathetic and discouraged at their lack of real alternatives to big and expanding government.
3. The next Democrat president would make Obama look centrist.
I know Rush said he'd vote for Elmer Fudd if he ran against Obama. I wonder ... if Joe Leiberman switched parties and ran against Obama, would that Fudd be judged an improvement for future prospects?
Say a truly CONTRASTING GOP candidate got the nod, such as Palin. Someone who made it clear: My Republican party is where you come if you want to vote for less government, reduced government, getting the government monkey off your back. The less the government, the bigger the citizen. The more freedom to prosper and do right, as America has for the past 200 years.
Say she runs and loses. Do you seriously think she wouldn't become more powerful, especially as the ONLY way Obama could win would be through the usual manufactured, ginned, organized, and fraudulent vote campaign that is how a minority of liberals has seized power over the American majority, which is made up of conservatives? Say she lost. Probabilities are that two things would happen:
1. The Republican party would become more attractive to angry Americans clamoring for a real alternative, Palin would become more attractive and viewed as a leader.
2. Congress and the Republican party would make a much harder turn to the right during the mid terms.
3. Obama, or whatever other idiot liberal gets the Dem nomination for 2012, in the White House, is demonized all the more by the real people in this country, who are getting wise to the MSM spin. And they ARE. I read the comments. It seems pretty obvious that Obama, liberalism, and a biased press are loathed and held in contempt by the majority of our fellow Americans.
Just because the MSM, including FOX news, doesn't project their voices, doesn't mean that majority isn't there.
As far as I'm concerned, someone LIKE Palin, and by that I mean a Republican who holds high the banner "The Republican party is the place to go for limiting intrusive government and letting you take more responsibility for yourself" -- someone who truly gives Americans, the majority, who are yearing for it, a real alternative -- someone like that gets the GOP nomination and runs, WE WIN EITHER WAY.
If you vote for Elmer Fudd, you're going to get Toon Town. And the next "Obama" is going to be Judge Doom.
Was there a CPA firm confirming the money count on the site or do we now believe Media Press Releases as facts NOW????
Lets see the Proof !
Is Mitt positioned to take this election cycle’s title of “Democrats Favorite RINO”?
The people giving to Mittens are DEMOCRATS.
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