Posted on 10/05/2007 9:18:17 PM PDT by Doofer
Let’s all just be thankful that its him and not Ron Paul who has a personal fortune.
I don't care if he writes his own checks or not but if you have grass roots support it's not a requirement as it seems to be in Romney's case.
I don’t believe that conservatism is for sale to the highest liberal bidder.
Liberalism is.
Very impressive.
I don't know. Thompson's had something like 80,000 seperate donors in quite a bit less than a year.
If I were a gazillionaire I’d probably run myself. I come closer to my own political philosophy than anyone else I know. Very rarely do I get in political arguments with myself and even rarer do they become physically violent.
Shut up Graybeard you dumb ass.
I don’t have to take that crap from you.
I’ll take my meds now.
The Thompson aide made a good point about ad times getting sold and filled up, so even if you have a fortune to drop then, there are no ad slots left to buy.
That is a very powerful reality, but I think it is read wrong in terms of what it means. Romney can schedule his expenditures with 100% flexibility. His opponents cannot. They are constrained by the rate at which money comes in from fund raising.
What this means is . . . pretty clear. Romney can buy up the choice ad slots before the others can place their orders because they won’t have the cash on hand to fund both their staff plus the ad buy. This is the hurricane they have to find an answer for.
They are forewarned. Possibly the only answer is for staff to eschew salary to enable ad buys. That is asking them to take a huge risk. If their guy doesn’t win/survive, they won’t ever get paid.
Romney can buy up all the ads to win a couple of primaries, but he can't get any traction nationally.
You can pour cash into a few key states early on, but people aren't going to go to the polls if you seem like the inevitable winner and they don't care for you.
Romney has mistaken rape for seduction, a mugging for persuasion.
If we stay together and vote, we win 55 to 45.
There is no mistake about victory. If the strategy wins, it wins. If it gathers the non political junkies via TV, then he is victorious.
The man is running a very crisp campaign. He’s a brilliant guy.
Yep. But, I ain’t unifying around any RINO.
Please explain. (just a little.....)
Yeah, he's racking up the endorsements, ain't he.
"A republic, if you can keep it."
“There is no mistake about victory. If the strategy wins, it wins. If it gathers the non political junkies via TV, then he is victorious.
The man is running a very crisp campaign. He’s a brilliant guy.”
============================================================For a conservative, you don’t sound very concerned that through wealth and primary system finesse, a man with very little deep, popular support could squeeze out a win in the primary.
By queering the process we get a weak candidate, a demoralized conservative base, no particular passionate, widespread support, against a candidate that will have everything she needs to roll over an apathetic Republican electorate.
Romney’s numbers and fund raising at this point, suck after all this time, because as a candidate he does not bring in voters or donations, except for small numbers of large donors.
If he threads the needle between Fred and Rudy, he will not bring passion to the aftermath, and conservatives will stay home in mass.
I believe In LIFE, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. I hope they address that completely. :^)
There is a reason as to why Romney has failed to get a solid fundraising core (aside from himself). It’s because the vast majoirty of people are weary of giving money to people who’s positions on the issues could take a radical change within 15 minutes of their donation.
Simply, Romney is a liberal. His record would indicate that he is even more so liberal than Giuliani. The same Giuliani who cast a vote for George McGovern in 1972. That is sad, and that is why the conservative base of the GOP has not gotten behind Romney. The real question at this point if you’re Mitt is; “How much more of my personal wealth do I plan to waste?”
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