Posted on 01/12/2012 8:28:33 AM PST by Minus_The_Bear
Money may not be buying Mitt Romney much Republican love, but it’s going a long way toward helping him buy the next best thing: endorsements in the GOP primaries.
Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC and its affiliates states have lavished close to $1.3 million in campaign donations to federal, state and local GOP politicians, almost all since 2010. His recipients include officials in the major upcoming primary states of New Hampshire and South Carolina, and in three southern Super Tuesday states where he was trounced four years ago.
In New Hampshire, a U.S. senator, a congressman, 10 state senators and three executive councilors shared $26,000 in donations from Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC in 2010 and 2011 combined. All 15 have showered Romney with endorsements leading up to Tuesday’s primary
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley came out for Romney last month – a year after his Free and Strong America PACs funneled $36,000 to the Tea Party darling’s 2010 election bid. And 19 state and Washington, D.C., lawmakers in three Super Tuesday states – Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia — are backing Romney after his PAC poured a total of $125,500 into their coffers for elections held in 2009 and 2010.
Three weeks out from the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, 52 sitting members of Congress have endorsed GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. And Romney, through his leadership PACs, has donated to 48 of them, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/12/how-much-love-will-contributions-buy.html
Mitt Romney’s idea of the free market: his freedom to buy votes and lie about it.
After Romney loses, who is next in line in the republican succession? Or do we actually get to pick a candidate next time?
Bet Rush and Sean etc. stay quiet about this.
LLS
so where’s the story?
obama if funneling millions to community groups, blacks, etc. congress members have been getting millions in pork for there vote on a particular issue. where is that outrage?
LLS
“do we actually get to pick a candidate next time” not as long as we have “Open” Caucuses and Primaries and we are SADDLED with this Dem-O-Crat “Law”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Voter_Registration_Act_of_1993
It really doesn’t matter what happens in November. Romney will be no different than Obama. Not even a little IMO.
Seems to me liberals and the “Republican” elites are one in the same.
It’s obvious, and has been obvious since BEFORE the 2008 election, that the GOP elite wants obama in office.
And they’re telling the Tea Party to stick it! They’ve been telling the Tea Party to stick it since day one. And some of those elected by the Tea Party are telling the Tea Paryty to stick it.
LLS
Romney is buying everybody off with money and political promises of jobs...see Bolton.
He’s acting like the corrupt banker Potter in “It’s a Wonderful Life”
Gingrich surging in South Carolina...South Carolinians are not going to vote for Mittens.
Ok. Given that Rubio, West, Ryan and Palin all told us to go pound sand...and the "Tea Party Darlings" like Cain have made a mockery of us, who exactly should we have picked? Idiot Perry? Big Government Santorum? "Global Warming is good and capitalism is bad" Gingrich?
Rush, Hannity and all the big time “talkers” will fall in line very shortly. It’s the STOP OBAMA EXPRESS, don’t you know.
The Mormon Mafia... just greasing the needed palms.
yep... Cane Capital even bought Rush’s sindication.
Romney and the Mormon Mafia are as corrupt as it gets.
This is so disgusting that 80% of the country is sending it down the tubes with 40% RAT socialists and 40% GOP rinos, with 100% royally screwed!
Of course he is, but one of the best things about this is we are finding out just who the wh*res are.
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