Romney raises $125,000 at Salt Lake City fundraiser [wants to "help" GOP in 2010]

The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah ^ | 2009-09-30 | Lisa Riley Roche

[rabscuttle385]

Utahns continue to open their wallets for Mitt Romney.

The former leader of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City raised about $125,000 at a Tuesday dinner held at the Little America Hotel, according to his spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom.

Fehrnstrom said 150 people attended the event, which cost contributors $1,000 a plate or $5,000 for special access to a VIP reception before the dinner.

"Mitt Romney appreciates the support, and the money raised will allow him to stay active politically and help the Republican Party come back strong in the 2010 elections," Fehrnstrom said.

[rabscuttle385]

Go away, you Socialist bastard.

[GOP_Lady]

Thanks, Mitt!

[rabscuttle385]

*Ping!*

[HiTech RedNeck]

If he’s nice, Sarah Palin might appoint him Secretary of Treasury. At least he pays his taxes!

[indcons]

Myth Romney is the father of ObamaCare.

[rabscuttle385]

If he’s nice, Sarah Palin might appoint him Secretary of Treasury.

Why? So he can bail out more private corporations?

[TexasFreeper2009]

he can help by donating it all to Palins campaign.

[TaMoDee]

$125K in SLC! OMG! Mitt that should tell you to fold the tent and go back to Mass. Your toast.

[Lou Budvis]

Only donate to Sarahpac or local candidates you support. No money to national GOP or any PAC that the Huckster or Myth can direct.

[Kartographer]

He needs to take the money and open a sancutary for what I hope will soon be the endangered North American RINO!

[Bahbah]

Good. Help Sarah.

[rabscuttle385]

No money to national GOP or any PAC that the Huckster or Myth can direct.

Both the NRSC and RNC have sent me "surveys" this week with requests for money.

I assure you...my responses will be nasty and filled with McCain/Bush pesos.

[GOP_Lady]

Check your facts.

Romney is not in support of bailing out corporations.

He wasn’t for bailing out GM and Dodge.

[4rcane]

who’s giving money to romney! Need names!

[jeltz25]

Isn’t Mitt worth 250M? Why does he need donations?

[rabscuttle385]

Romney is not in support of bailing out corporations.

Oh, so big banks in New York aren't corporations and TARP really wasn't a bailout, was it?

"The TARP program, while not transparent and not having been used as wisely it should have been, was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures. You cannot have a free economy and free market if there is not a financial system."
—Myth Romney, quoted by Reuters in March 2009

Get your facts straight, Romneybot.

[swheats]

I’ll admit up front I’m not a Romney fan, but has he made any statement on current events? He appears to me to be out of touch with the real issues facing us.

He seems like a part of the problem we’re trying to vote out now.

[cripplecreek]

He can help by retiring to Fiji.

[ExTxMarine]

He says he wants to “help” the GOP? So, did he announce that he was dropping out of politics!?!? Oh, I know, he finally admitted that he is a Democrat?!?

Okay, if neither of those occurred, then I am confused!

[GOP_Lady]

I was for the first bailout because there would have been literally NO MONEY IN THE ATMs. This economy was very close to collapsing. Remember what happened about a year ago?

Get your facts straight.

[socialismislost]

Romney voted for the POS bailouts, Mass. has Romneycare whhich is a complete failure with soaring prices and huge costs to the government. Romney is two face with social issues. I hope he fails miserably.

[Diogenesis]

What is clipped from the article is:
"The money will go to Romney's "Free & Strong America"
political action committee, which funds his appearances on behalf of
GOP candidates and issues as well as direct campaign contributions."

So Romney can claim it is for others, but is for his own travel expenses.

How Romney is that?

[rabscuttle385]

I was for the first bailout

*snicker*

[Diogenesis]

Romney also received $$$ from AIG,
and had some sort of relationships with ACORN.

[GOP_Lady]

What is so funny about the economy nearly collapsing that you have to snicker?

[ExTxMarine]

I think you are mistaken! More importantly, I KNOW you are mistaken! I have friends that work in the banking industry here in Texas and it was no where near as bad as Paulsen and Bush were stating (kinda like the BS that Obama spewed for over six months about the “worst economic recession since the Great Depression” - BS!)

If the original TARP was not passed, some banks and businesses (some big ones at that) would have folded - and that is a GOOD thing! Bad businesses NEED to fail so that corrections can be made!

Money was still in the system and furthermore, there would have been REAL stimulus, as people would have started shopping their money around to other banks! And human nature is simple, cash flows freely in large denominations (people walking around with money in cash have a tendency to spend some of it!)

If you think we were really on the brink of an absolutely collapse, then we are still there! Because the only thing TARP I did was add money on TOP of a shaky, unstable situation. We are now MORE leveraged than we were before all this crap, so explain to me how you think borrowing our way out of debt works!?!?!?!

[rabscuttle385]

What is so funny about the economy nearly collapsing that you have to snicker?

Your support for fascism is disgusting.

But hey, the ends justify the means, don't they?

[ABQHispConservative]

I’m not sure I buy that argument. Unless you can point at a reliable report that states that there was a liquidity problem in the banking system, then it’s just smoke and mirrors.

I agree that the economy was in a bad way, but you make it sound as though we were at the beginning of a major bank run.

[socialismislost]

Yes he has received money from AIG. If Romney were truly investigated for kickbacks and schemes, he would already have been in prison. I didn’t know anything about the ACORN thing though. Romney is lucks he is still a free citizen with his financial shenanigans. I don’t know how he sleeps at night, frankly.

[Diogenesis]

"Top 20 Recipients of AIG Contributions in 2008"

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"Oh by the way so are Republican governors Crist of FL, Perry of TX and Schwarzenegger of CA,
all of whom have had major initiatives with ACORN in the last year or so.
... Joe Lieberman, Mitt Romney and even Michael Bloomberg even have worked with ACORN."

[GOP_Lady]

It was all over the news.

Where were you in September 2008?

[ABQHispConservative]

A lot of stuff was all over the news. They keep telling us that we are turning the corner on the economy, do you believe that?

So I repeat, can you point on some actual research to back your claim?

[sickoflibs]

Back Spring 2008 I still kind of believed talk radio who finally picked Romney, and Romney talked the best conservative talk of the three. He really can talk the talk and debate. But TARP1 was a great test to show what they will do under stress. TARP1 is the great litmus test. It destroyed the idea of freedom, capitalism and markets and is the center of M Moores movie that attacks capitalism. It sent the message, "Republicans only care for the rich"

I have moved far beyond “A republican must win at any cost”

Add Romney care.

[Diogenesis]

September 2008. I remember that. That was when
Team Romney attacked Gov. Palin.

The McCain/Palin ticket was up winning in the days prior to September 18th, 2008.
So the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

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David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

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David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[rabscuttle385]

It was all over the news. Where were you in September 2008?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26871010/ns/politics-decision_08/

[dalereed]

The best help he can be is to shut up!!!!

[rabscuttle385]

September 2008. I remember that. That was when Team Romney attacked Gov. Palin.

[buccaneer81]

I was for the first bailout because there would have been literally NO MONEY IN THE ATMs.

Really? My bank is one of the top 10 safest in the US.

No money in the ATMs? Please. It would have come from somewhere, be it China or Saudi Arabia. More expensive, yes. Scarce? No.

[GOP_Lady]

Look up what happened on one day in September 2008.

It was a very frenzied day.

The feds had to take quick action.

[Tench_Coxe]

Well gee....The 3 Republican candidates for President touted by the media just so happen to be in that top donor list. I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you.

[buccaneer81]

Add Romney care.

A true boondoggle.

[buccaneer81]

The feds had to take quick action.

Bull.

[ExTxMarine]

Hey, I think they are ALL corrupt! Personally, if we vote for ANY of the sitting members in Congress or the White House, then the USA is doomed to become a full-fledged, wretched Communist nation!!

I have to say, as Republican/RINOs go, my two Senators are not the worst in DC, but I will NOT vote for either one of them because they both voted for TARP I! But, we MUST not get caught up in the “my Senator is not as bad as your Senator” squabble! We need to start over with people who have lived life - who have EARNED the right to represent us - not just someone who’s daddy was once elected!

Our system of government was never meant to be run by “professional politicians!” It was designed to be ran BY the people, FOR the people (I think I read that somewhere once)!!

[PeterPrinciple]

Calling Zero a liar seems to be a better way to raise money......................

[GOP_Lady]

Oh, yeah?

I don’t think so.

The feds were scrambling for money.

[ABQHispConservative]

Again, you are quoting news reports. Show me some research that backs your claim. How about some reserve reports from major banks, both in their vaults and at the Fed. Something that shows that there was a liquidity crises. Don’t just point to some news report. What we did with the bailout was extreme fiscal policy, which may or may have not worked.

[ejonesie22]

Some things go without sayin’ huh?

[GOP_Lady]

Research is our friend.

I gave you the exact time span and the action the feds took.

[rabscuttle385]

Yep.

[Vigilanteman]

Only $125,000? That’s good for maybe 125 votes, isn’t it?