Hold on a minute. Do you remember how in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns GWB had tens of thousands of middle class donors giving $50 or $100 while Gore and Kerry had a much smaller donor base that gave much larger donations?
If we've all bee looking for a conservative in this race, why hasn't Hunter been able to tap that group? He can't get mailing lists from conservative organizations and ask us for money? He doesn't need a right wing George Soros any more than Bush did...and don't bother telling me it's different because Bush is rich. You don't need to be rich to do good fundraising.
If we’ve all bee looking for a conservative in this race, why hasn’t Hunter been able to tap that group?
***Because, similar to what has happened here on Free Republic, the support drifted over to the name recognition conservative. But that support is not deep. Thompson’s promise was that by this time in the race he’d be kicking tootyfruityrudy to the curb, but instead he’s whining about Huckabee and barely beats Ron Paul at Intrade. The bible says something about “to whom much is given, much is required” and the parable of the talents shows that bigger results are expected from those to whom more is given. Thompson was given name recognition and money and the result is dropping polls and losing 30 points at Intrade. Time to give those resources to someone who has been much more frugal with what’s been given to him: Hunter.