Ya know, I find it hard to get upset that Romney is helping raise funds for GOP candidates as long as he isn’t trying to use it to bootstrap a further candidacy of his own. Perhaps this is his best function for the party.
Romney is a leveraged buy-out guy, that's how he made his fortune. And he's been utilizing those skills throughout the GOP universe for quite some time. He and his close allies have been busy buying up anyone and everyone who can be bought. Do you think he's been doing that out of altruism?
But that's what he will end up doing. He's insidiously dangerous and destructive; when when people like me, who absolutely OPPOSE Romney, send money to a guy like Brown -- admittedly a moderate Republican who would only get my support in the most extreme of circumstances, such as the race in MA -- the oportunistic Romney claims credit for Brown's win in the sense that he portrays himself as a kind of party kingmaker, and hence takes MY effort and claims it as his own.
I'll bet that tens of thousands of genuine conservatives who donated to Brown resent the hell out of Romney for acting as if he was the guy who put Brown over the top. If we tens of thousands hadn't sent Brown money ... would Brown have won? After all, all of Romney's dough and more than a year on the campaign trail still failed him in the 2008 primaries.
Romney is poison to the GOP.
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