Posted on 10/16/2011 6:14:15 PM PDT by Clairity
Fundraising figures released over the weekend demonstrate that only two Republican candidates -- Mitt Romney and Rick Perry -- enter the dash to the nomination with both the financial support and the campaign infrastructure that equip them fully to compete.
And the Obama campaign -- eager to ensure that no candidates get free rides in the primaries -- has already begun making assumptions about whom President Obama is likely to face in the general election. That means Romney is coming under pressure from both sides, even as he seeks to consolidate Republican support early in the process.
Before we get there, Romney and Perry remain the frontrunners for the nomination. One of them remains overwhelmingly likely to secure the GOP nod.
The other candidates -- led by Herman Cain, whose burst in the polls has been the story of the last week -- have nowhere near the combination of fundraising muscle and on-the-ground activists that Perry and Romney have.
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Not HAVING money, spending it in a political ad campaign. C’mon, be serious.
I feel your pain. The Palin supporters, who currently support Cain, soured me on both of them.
Horse manure. In 2008, Mike Huckabee had bupkis. He won Iowa. In 2008, John McCain ran his campaign out of money and was broke. He won New Hampshire, SC and FL.
Slick Willard was throwing money at all of those contests. He lost them all. His band of useless idiots were spouting the exact same crap you are now, slinging mud at every conservative they could, just like you guys.
Mike Huckabee used a network of churches in Iowa to win. Bachmann was trying to duplicate this, but if you look back at articles from a few months ago, I recall reading that she was running into resistance because they were interested in Herman Cain. I'll be they are just a touch more interested now.
Perry is finished. You people who stubbornly focus on the phony, stuttering, corrupt, imbecile from Texas are going to make it much harder to beat Romney. Get behind a VIABLE candidate and stop doing Mitt Romney and Obama's work for them.
The Perrybots' argument boils down to this: Only our phony, stuttering, corrupt imbecile can beat their phony, stuttering, corrupt, imbecile [0bama]. "Anybody can see that"--Clairity
Indeed. And I say we vote no on ALL phony, stuttering, corrupt imbeciles in 2012!!! :)
LOLOL! Nice. Well-played.
Equine feces.
So, you think we should fall in line with whoever has the biggest corporate donors? So apparently you think we should all vote for Obama.
I think you know what you can do with that line of thinking.
The burn rate of Romney and Cain is interesting.
Romney went through 12 million to build “ out a campaign staff and infrastructure in all the early-voting states.”
Cain ended the July-to-September quarter with $1.3 million available in the bank for the primary fight.
Including a $ 173,000 personal loan to his campaign this quarter
and a $500,000 personal loan last quarter.
He spent nearly $2 million.
FTA “ The money he has spent has been used to build almost no campaign apparatus to speak of.”
Obama has raised 70 million, so far.
Not mentioned in the article are the Romney , Perry and Obama Super PACs and they will also raise a ton of money.
These early debates are a lot of fun, especially watching all the early prophets making all these ridiculous claims about how the election is going to unfold.
Cain has about as much chance of winning as do the other inexperienced and grossly underfunded wannabees that are stuck below 5%. Cain is way too inexperienced to organize something he is not suited to master in just a few short weeks.
The money train is what determines the most voter support. The polls are for losers. Cain will make a fool of himself eventually and already has in the recent weekend interviews. He is rapidly being labeled as a loose cannon while he unknowingly shoots his mouth off with radical and outlandish claims about the Wall Street Protesters, the border, Mexicans, etc.
American politics does not play well to the radical Right or Left. Like Reagan, one must learn how to be tactful and not come across as an extremist. Reagan was a master in the art of connecting with both sides of the isle and at the same time, make his ideology sound appealing and worth voting for.
Cain just does not have a clue on how to go about that tactic. He has already turned off a lot of regular Americans with his recent, outlandish statements.
Romney will get us Obama.
Perry will likely get use Obama also.
Never underestimate Rick Perry. His strongest showing is about to become a reality.
As anyone can see, if you don’t support Perry, you will get Romney. And if Romney is the GOP nominee, you will get Obama.
This is not “wishful thinking”, this is reality.
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You are exactly right!
And the more we learn about Romney....the more he resembles Obama. He insisted on the individual mandate in Romney Care which gave Obama the same approach in ObamaCare.
And he’s on tape saying that believes in man-made global warming. Gore praised Romney for that statement.
If we want a real conservative, who believes in the 10th Amendment; who has the ability to raise money to counter Obama’s Campaign Billions; a campaign organization in place ready to go, executive experience and a proven record of job creation....Perry is the logical choice!
Two rinos leading the fund raising because there are simply too many people who believe they MUST vote for the “R” candidate regardless of his record.
I’ve been watching Intrade this weekend. Perry keeps edging upward while Cain keeps slipping further down. Should be interesting to see what happens this week.
Yikes! Globalist-elitist-country club establishment-neocons. No wonder Cain likes Romney so much.
True that! I would think a whole lot of Tea Party members would choose Perry's fiscal conservatism and small government principles in lieu of Cain's newly-announced 999 embedded entitlements for low income minorities through the use of federal enterprise and empowerment zones.
And for some, polls matter more than fiscal conservatism.
Perry really needs to do a crash course on debating though to win the nomination.
Yeah right and how do you explain Cain’s rise?
Could it possibly be because people are abandoning the Perry camp?
Look Romney is the clear Liberal and who would lose against Obama.
The choice should really be between Perry and Cain. That way no matter what... We get a conservative. Our country cannot handle another Liberal flip flopping Republican.
Ahem. Who raised the most money in the last presidential election?
And who won?
Think about that...
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