Posted on 01/30/2012 12:25:59 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Confident of victory in the Florida primaries tomorrow but afraid it might not be big enough to derail challenger Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney's team is moving to play down talk he will win by 10 points or more. "The win will wind up big, but we're not going to get double digits," said a key advisor.
Several polls today have Romney's lead increasing to a Real Clear Politics average of 12 percent. Only three of nine of the most recent polls have Romney's lead in single numbers, with the highest being a 20 point lead in a Suffolk University poll released over the weekend.
What's driving the Romney team to downplay expectations are indications that the nasty campaign is angering voters and might put the brakes on the surge of Romney voters to the polls. "Romney's message is clearly resonating in Florida, but the race has been very fluid and Gingrich's negativity is bringing the discourse down," said the advisor. As a result, he added, the vote could be depressed.
(Excerpt) Read more at campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com ...
Romney acknowledged the turn to the negative, telling NBC’s “Today” show that his campaign was forced to respond to a negative salvo by Gingrich that helped the former House speaker win last week’s South Carolina primary.
“We were being whaled on by Speaker Gingrich and didn’t respond well in South Carolina,” Romney said. “So we decided to respond. We made it clear if people want change in Washington you have to bring in someone from outside Washington. Both the change in tactic as well as the message have had a real impact in Florida.”
Later Monday, Romney told a crowd in Dunedin, Florida, that Gingrich’s attacks revealed a degree of desperation.
“He has been flailing around a bit trying to go after me for one thing or the other,” Romney said. “You just watch it and shake your head. It has been kind of painfully revealing to watch.”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/30/politics/campaign-wrap/index.html
IIRC Newt didn't start this pissing contest.
Romney THINKS we are going to forget about the tactics he has been using... NOT GOING TO HAPPEN and it’s not going to happen that I forget who participated WITH him either!
They HATE the Tea Party and many of his ‘advisors’ have SAID AS MUCH...
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A pro-Mitt Romney ad, which was placed on the Florida television airwaves by a group called Restore Our Future, fiercely attacks former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Gingrich is assailed in the ad for having “a ton of baggage” in the form of ethics violations and for having received consulting payments from Freddie Mac. Another ad from the same group rebukes him for supposedly making mention of Ronald Reagan’s name too frequently and without merit.
A stream of negative attack ads costing tens of millions of dollars have flooded Florida’s airwaves, and the vast majority of the commercials are being financed by a Super PAC that is seeking to lower the poll numbers of the former House Speaker.
http://www.newsmax.com/Hirsen/Romney-Gingrich-SuperPAC-ads/2012/01/30/id/425971
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Restore Our Future is a political action committee (PAC) created to support Mitt Romney in the 2012 U.S. Presidential election. A so-called Super PAC, Restore Our Future is permitted to raise and spend unlimited amounts of corporate, union, and individual campaign contributions under the terms of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.
Restore Our Future was founded by Romney aides in 2010. Charles Spies, the group’s treasurer and former general counsel for Romney’s 2008 campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination, described Restore Our Future as “an independent effort focused on getting Romney elected president.”[1] The group reported raising over $12 million in the first half of 2011, in the form of large donations from approximately 90 wealthy individuals and corporations. Spies declined to discuss specific contributors to the PAC.
As of of August 2011[update], the largest individual contributor to Restore Our Future was John Paulson, a billionaire and hedge fund manager who is, according to Politico, “famous for [having enriched] himself by betting on the collapse of the housing industry.” An additional million dollars came from W Spann LLC, a corporation with no record of actual business activities. W Spann LLC was incorporated, donated to the PAC, and then dissolved in a matter of months, attracting concerns from election-watchdog groups and campaign-finance experts about the use of dummy corporations to shield large campaign contributions from public scrutiny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restore_Our_Future
Notice the number of undecided. They are enough to make the difference..If they vote for the underdog instead of leader Newt wins....Any statistics on this?
Problem is the early voting has already been influenced by the lies in Romney’s ads and it won’t matter if those voters now realize the truth
The good news is that Romney is only up 12 percent in early voting and absentee ballots so if the primary voters on Tuesday give Newt 12 percent above Romney that makes it a tie and if they give more to Newt he will win. Oh I don’t think that will happen but the closer the race the better. I guess it really doesn’t matter as far as delegates because Romney will have 49 additional delegates tomorrow night. Then it is on to Nevada where Gingrich is just starting on Wednesday. Romney has been there working a year so I don’t know if Newt can get together in two days. We will see though.
01/20/2012
Restore Our Future as of Jan. 1 had spent $4.1 million. As of Friday, its total stood at $11.3 million. The rest came from a group calling itself “Citizens for a Working America” which bought ads supporting Romney.
“Winning Our Future” has spent $4.6 million, a huge increase since Iowa, when it had spent less than $800,000.
Unlike the other organizations, the pro-Romney group is moving aggressively into Florida, the site of the next primary. Of the $11.3 million Restore Our Future has spent to date, $4.9 million has gone to direct mail and advertising in Florida, nearly all of it in opposition to Gingrich.
The group made an ad buy of $1.5 million on Wednesday in the state.
How can you Floridians ever think of voting for that liberal.
In brief, Romney is scum.
Mitt Romney’s $12 Million Mystery Super-PAC Man
Republican strategist Carl Forti has been described, variously, as “Karl Rove’s Karl Rove” (Politico), “one of the smartest people in politics you’ve never heard of” (Karl Rove), and “the Alexander the Great of the Republican independent expenditure world” (Republican operative Bradley Blakeman). You can add one more to the list: President Obama and the Democrats’ worst nightmare in 2012. A pioneer in the post-Citizens United world of super-PACs and dark money, Forti is one of the lead architects of the GOP’s outside-spending strategy and an operative who has for years tested the boundaries of campaign finance law.
Forti first waded into the outside-money wars while working for the National Republican Congressional Committee. During the 2006 election cycle, he managed an $82 million independent-expenditure campaign—the largest in the committee’s history. Through the Black Rock Group, the strategic communications firm he cofounded, Forti has gone on to advise an all-star roster of conservative outside-spending groups, including the 60 Plus Association (the “conservative AARP”) and Americans for Job Security. Forti is also the political director of American Crossroads and advocacy director of Crossroads GPS, the Rove-inspired outfits that reported spending nearly $39 million together during the midterms. The groups have already begun running ads bashing Obama and vulnerable Democrats and plan to dump $240 million into 2012 races.
Most recently, Forti helped launch Restore Our Future, a pro-Mitt Romney super-PAC that raised $12 million in the first half of 2011. “I don’t know of anybody who’s got as important of a role with the major outside organizations, both in 2010 and in 2012,” says the group’s treasurer, Charles Spies.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/carl-forti-romney-super-PAC
Top Organizations Donating to Restore Our Future, 2012
Select cycle: 2012 2010 View ALL Donors
Rank Occupation/Employer Total From Individuals From Organizations
1 Bain Capital $1,250,000 $1,250,000 $0
2 Eli Publishing $1,000,000 $0 $1,000,000
2 F8 LLC $1,000,000 $0 $1,000,000
2 Paulson & Co $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $0
5 Host Hotels & Resorts $500,000 $500,000 $0
5 Marriott International $500,000 $500,000 $0
5 Moore Capital Management $500,000 $500,000 $0
5 New Balance Athletic Shoe $500,000 $500,000 $0
5 Perry Homes $500,000 $500,000 $0
5 The Villages $500,000 $250,000 $250,000
11 Pence-Friedel Developers $250,000 $250,000 $0
11 Sun Capital Partners $250,000 $250,000 $0
13 IntercontinentalExchange Inc $230,000 $230,000 $0
14 Harbour Group Industries $200,000 $200,000 $0
15 TPA Private Equity $125,000 $125,000 $0
16 2GIG Technologies $100,000 $0 $100,000
16 Berkshire Partners $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 CKE Restaurants $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 Credit Suisse Group $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 HIG Capital $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 Interface Group $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 KKR & Co $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 Larry H Miller Group $100,000 $0 $100,000
16 Maverick Capital $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 Northwest Excavating $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 Putnam Investments $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 Smith Christensen Enterprises $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 Suburban Collection $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 TPG Capital $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 W/F Investment Corp $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 Waters Corp $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 West Rim Capital $100,000 $100,000 $0
16 Windover Developments $100,000 $100,000 $0
34 Parthenon Group $80,000 $80,000 $0
35 Apollo Management $50,000 $50,000 $0
35 B/E Aerospace $50,000 $0 $50,000
35 Fidelity Investments $50,000 $50,000 $0
35 Gardner Co $50,000 $50,000 $0
35 Knott Partners $50,000 $50,000 $0
35 Wallace & Graham $50,000 $50,000 $0
35 Western National Group $50,000 $50,000 $0
42 Anesthesia Assoc of Southern Illinois $47,500 $20,000 $27,500
43 Alpha Packaging $45,000 $45,000 $0
43 Full Sail $45,000 $45,000 $0
45 TA Assoc $40,000 $40,000 $0
46 Arch Street Management $35,000 $35,000 $0
47 National Label Co $27,500 $0 $27,500
48 Blue Ridge Capital $25,000 $25,000 $0
48 Clear Choice Dental Implants $25,000 $25,000 $0
48 Src Development Group $25,000 $25,000 $0
48 World Wide Technologies $25,000 $25,000 $0
52 Brockway, Moran & Partners $20,000 $20,000 $0
52 Macerich Co $20,000 $20,000 $0
52 Musick Construction $20,000 $20,000 $0
52 PARIC Corp $20,000 $20,000 $0
56 Sunmark Capital $11,700 $11,700 $0
57 Boston Culinary Group $10,000 $10,000 $0
57 Highland Capital $10,000 $10,000 $0
57 Liberty Mutual Insurance $10,000 $10,000 $0
57 RP Lumber $10,000 $0 $10,000
57 Vistapointe Capital Management $10,000 $10,000 $0
62 Domus CCC $5,000 $5,000 $0
62 Legacy Trust Dated 9-25-02 $5,000 $0 $5,000
62 XO Communications $5,000 $5,000 $0
65 Duane Morris LLP $4,000 $0 $4,000
66 McCormick, Taylor & Assoc $3,500 $3,500 $0
Based on data released daily by the FEC on January 02, 2012.
Donors to Restore Our Future, 2012
Select cycle: 2012 2010 90 records found
Total for this search: $12,231,700
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Contributor Occupation Date Amount Recipient
CONARD, EDWARD
NEW YORK,NY Investor 4/28/11 $1,000,000 Restore Our Future
ELI PUBLISHING INC
PROVO,UT Eli Publishing 3/31/11 $1,000,000 Restore Our Future
F8 LLC
PROVO,UT F8 LLC 3/31/11 $1,000,000 Restore Our Future
PAULSON, JOHN
NEW YORK,NY Paulson & Co 1/28/11 $1,000,000 Restore Our Future
BACON, LOUIS MOORE
NEW YORK,NY Moore Capital Management 2/10/11 $500,000 Restore Our Future
DAVIS, JAMES S
BOSTON,MA New Balance Athletic Shoe 6/15/11 $500,000 Restore Our Future
EDGERLY, PAUL
BROOKLINE,MA Bain Capital 5/19/11 $500,000 Restore Our Future
EDGERLY, SANDRA
BROOKLINE,MA Bain Capital 5/19/11 $500,000 Restore Our Future
MARRIOTT, JW JR
BETHESDA,MD Marriott International 6/15/11 $500,000 Restore Our Future
MARRIOTT, RICHARD
BETHESDA,MD Host Hotels & Resorts 6/20/11 $500,000 Restore Our Future
PERRY, BOB
HOUSTON,TX Perry Homes 3/8/11 $500,000 Restore Our Future
MORSE, RENEE B
THE VILLAGES,FL The Villages 6/30/11 $250,000 Restore Our Future
PENCE, ROBERT
WASHINGTON,DC Pence-Friedel Developers 6/29/11 $250,000 Restore Our Future
THE VILLAGES OF LAKE SUMTER, INC
THE VILLAGES,FL The Villages 6/30/11 $250,000 Restore Our Future
ZIDE, STEPHEN
OLD GREENWICH,CT Bain Capital 3/1/11 $250,000 Restore Our Future
SPRECHER, JEFFREY
ATLANTA,GA IntercontinentalExchange Inc 1/6/11 $230,000 Restore Our Future
KROUSE, RODGER
BOCA RATON,FL Sun Capital Partners 6/9/11 $125,000 Restore Our Future
LEDER, MARC
BOCA RATON,FL Sun Capital Partners 6/9/11 $125,000 Restore Our Future
ROLLINS, KEVIN
DOVER,MA TPA Private Equity 6/2/11 $125,000 Restore Our Future
2GIG TECHNOLOGIES
LEHI,UT 2GIG Technologies 4/8/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
AINSLIE, LEE
NEW YORK,NY Maverick Capital 4/14/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
BERTHIAUME, DOUGLAS
ANDOVER,MA Waters Corp 4/1/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
BLOOM, BRADLEY
WELLESLEY,MA Berkshire Partners 6/9/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
BOYCE, RICHARD
PORTOLA VALLEY,CA TPG Capital 6/27/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
BULLOCK, DAVID
HIGHLAND,UT West Rim Capital 3/29/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
COX, HOWARD
STATESBORO,GA Retired 5/24/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
DODGE, STEVEN
MANCHESTER,MA Windover Developments 5/9/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
FISCHER, DAVID
TROY,MI Suburban Collection 6/1/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
FLEISCHMAN, WILLIAM O
LOS ANGELES,CA W/F Investment Corp 6/23/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
GROFF, HOWARD
NORTHRIDGE,CA Northwest Excavating 4/18/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
LARRY H MILLER GROUP OF COMPANIES
SANDY,UT Larry H Miller Group 4/1/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
NAVAB, ALEXANDER
NEW YORK,NY KKR & Co 6/1/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
PUZDER, ANDREW
CARPINTERIA,CA CKE Restaurants 6/2/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
REYNOLDS, ROBERT
CONCORD,MA Putnam Investments 6/2/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
SMITH, EDWARD D
LAS VEGAS,NV Smith Christensen Enterprises 5/4/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
VARVEL, ERIC
GREENWICH,CT Credit Suisse Group 2/16/11 $100,000 Restore Our Future
FOX, JEFFREY
ST. LOUIS,MO Harbour Group Industries 4/4/11 $90,000 Restore Our Future
FOX, SAM
ST. LOUIS,MO Harbour Group Industries 4/4/11 $90,000 Restore Our Future
B/E AEROSPACE, INC
WELLINGTON,FL B/E Aerospace 6/28/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
CUTLER, THEODORE
BOSTON,MA Interface Group 6/30/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
CUTLER, THEODORE
BOSTON,MA Interface Group 5/1/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
GARDNER, KEM
SALT LAKE CITY,UT Gardner Co 6/30/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
GRAHAM, BILL
SALISBURY,NC Wallace & Graham 6/27/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
HAYDE, MICHAEL
IRVINE,CA Western National Group 4/8/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
KNOTT, DAVID
SYOSSET,NY Knott Partners 3/11/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
ROWAN, MARC
NEW YORK,NY Apollo Management 6/3/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
TAMER, ANTHONY
CORAL GABLES,FL HIG Capital 5/3/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
TAMER, SANDRA
MIAMI BEACH,FL HIG Capital 5/3/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
WEINSTEIN, DAVID
NEWTON,MA Fidelity Investments 2/19/11 $50,000 Restore Our Future
HEAVENER, JAMES W
WINTER PARK,FL Full Sail 6/15/11 $45,000 Restore Our Futur
A commentator said, “Carter lost the only thing he had going for him....that he was a nice guy”
At best I hope its a Pyrrhic victory in FL.
Well, this is bad news...it seems that the poll Newt cited in his Tampa appearance today wasn’t a new one, after all.
@ZekeJMiller Tweet
“Gingrich campaign confirms he was referring to the one released Saturday and in the field early last week .”
Well, this is bad news...it seems that the poll Newt cited in his Tampa appearance today wasn’t a new one, after all.
@ZekeJMiller Tweet
“Gingrich campaign confirms he was referring to the one released Saturday and in the field early last week .”
He is a horrible campaigner. I think that is why he never ran state wide. He only ran in his district. He makes some really dumb mistakes. Now why would he use old information? Who does that? If it wasn’t for the debates he would have dropped out a long time ago.
Just announced on FOX
TODD PALIN IS JOINING NEWT ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! go newt!
“Newt’s negativity.”
Too rich.
So will you be contributing to the Zerobama campaign after Romney accepts the Republican nomination. Not voting to get rid of Obama is a no vote to keep him in office. Right now I would vote for anyone not named Obama because I actually do consider myself a patriot who loves my country and my grandchildren more than my pride.
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