Form as Crony Capitalists! Form as Douche Bags!
Posted on 02/02/2012 10:06:21 AM PST by C19fan
One of Mitt Romney’s strongest assets as the GOP presidential front-runner is also a potentially serious liability in the race: his heavy reliance on a small group of millionaires and billionaires for financial support.
A quarter of the money amassed by Romney’s campaign and an allied super PAC has come from just 41 people, each of whom has given more than $100,000, according to a Washington Post analysis of disclosure data. Nearly a dozen of the donors have contributed $1 million or more.
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Well, in fairness, Newt has been able to continue in the race lately as a result of getting almost all of his recent funding from a single couple in Nevada to the tune of 10 million dollars. (Which would be equal to 100 people giving $100,000 each, wheras Mitt had 41 who gave at least that much.)
So this arguement cuts both ways. Fact is, whomever we nominate...and God help us make it the most conservative cnadidate we possibly can, will have to get funds from wealthy GOP supporters as well as the rank and file if there is a hope to counter the billion dollar war chest Obama is amassing.
How many are Mormon?
Just shows how easy it is to buy an election.
How many are Mormon?
Let’s assume RINOmney actually gets nominated....and (horror of horrors) actually is elected.
Given that he’ll simply do the same things as the office holding Cretin that’s there now, has not any of our dimbulb “analysts” (listening Coulter, Medved, etc?) calculated that it will totally destroy the Repulsican (intentionally spelled) party?
I’ll personally join and give mucho time to a new conservative party should the vapid dork actually make it. Repulsican Party....RIP.
The term, “money talks” comes to mind.
Form as Crony Capitalists! Form as Douche Bags!
I bet no Dog lovers on the list.
I believe there will finally be enough anger with the Repubs that a viable 3rd party will be the result. Obviously, working within the Repubs (as the Tea Party has tried to do) does not work. The old “fool me once, shame on you ... fool me twice shame on me” is beginning to kick in here.
No matter whaat it costs him, Rombama will not get my vote!
Good point. The Citizens United decision has turned candidate selection over to the rich. Talk is cheap but microphones to be heard cost a lot of money. Negative ads need funds.
They probably pawned one of Joesph Smith’s golden tablets.
Don't know about any of the other donor's Mormonism's :)
I heard that Obama and his Housing Czar arranged to get him a large, low-interest mortgage on that planet where Mitt will be a god.
The few personal contributions from a few Goldman Sachs employees represents a very small portion of the donations to the Roney supporting super pac.
The largest single category of donors appears to NOT be from the big bank institutions but from private investors, private capital investment outfits, venture capital outfits, and individual employees of such businesses.
The one group of donors that everyone should be investigating, in case it is actually illegal, is in the form of four seperate donations from four subsideries of the Melaluca corporation, a Hong Kong based corporation.
Even if the four entities are U.S. incorporated entities, it could clearly be seen as those four entities meerly “laundering” money/donations from the foreign parent corporation.
Full disclosure: I am not a Romney supporter.
Regardless:
The few personal contributions from a few Goldman Sachs employees represents a very small portion of the donations to the Romney supporting super pac.
The largest single category of donors appears to NOT be from the big bank institutions but from private investors, private capital investment outfits, venture capital outfits, and individual employees of such businesses.
The one group of donors that everyone should be investigating, in case it is actually illegal, is in the form of four seperate donations from four subsidiaries of the Melaleuca corporation, a Hong Kong based corporation.
Even if the four entities are U.S. incorporated entities, it could clearly be seen as those four entities meerly “laundering” money/donations from the foreign parent corporation.
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