Posted on 01/05/2008 1:23:09 PM PST by Graybeard58
All that for one stinkin' delegate? Final totals won't be known until Jan. 31, but Sen. Christopher Dodd easily spent more than $10 million on his vanity presidential campaign and comes home to Connecticut today, his tail between his legs after his Iowa Waterloo, with a single delegate (out of 2,501) to the Iowa Democratic convention, and this understated headline Friday in The Day of New London: "Dodd A Dud In Iowa."
According to his Federal Election Commission filings, Sen. Dodd had raised $13.6 million through Sept. 30, more than a third of which he got by shaking down the financial, insurance and real-estate companies he oversees as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Of that total, he had spent $9.7 million and had $3.9 million on hand. Obviously, he raised and spent millions more in the last quarter of 2007, but whatever millions he has left over he simply will transfer to his 2010 re-election campaign. What a racket.
Reading the Iowa tea leaves:
Sen. Dodd suffers from acute Barbara Kennelly Syndrome. Liberal Connecticut Democrats win in landslides in their dark-blue home state, but get their clocks cleaned when they venture out of their cozy confines.
As voters in presidential elections have been saying since the 1970s, the heartland dislikes Northeast liberals. Not only did Iowa voters dash Sen. Dodd's presidential dreams, they sent Joseph Biden home and rebuked Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and honorary Northeast lefty John McCain.
Neither party has a front-runner because the field is singularly uninspiring. Are there no John Kennedys or Ronald Reagans left in America?
The polls were wrong again. The last CNN-Opinion Research poll, for example, predicted Sen. Clinton and Gov. Romney would win, but they finished third and second, respectively. In addition, the polls all along had Sen. Dodd getting 1 or 2 percent of the vote; he got 0.02 percent — the equivalent of 44 votes out of more than 222,000 cast. Rounding off, that makes him Sen. 0 Percent.
The big question Friday among liberal journalists, politicians and bloggers in Connecticut was: Who will Sen. Dodd's supporters back now?
Does it really matter? After all, they're not exactly legion.
Will this criminal ever be charged? Dumb question - he's a democrat.
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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It would keep a lot of non-serious, vanity, and idiot candidates out of the process.
Clinton rump swab bites it.
True, but now when Sen. Dodd goes on the Sunday morning shows, he'll be listed as "Former Presidential Candidate." His speaking fees have also doubled...
Time to go back home and make “sandwiches” with Teddy Swimmmer!
For decades they have been running on race pandering and cloaking themselves in the civil rights mantle.
But they are notably unwilling to give up their own bus seats to a black guy.
So the scam is exposed for what it is: white liberals elevating their own social stature by pointing fingers at other whites and saying "you racist! me inclusive! vote for me!"
All the while blithely assuming God has ordained them to rule, like the oligarchs of old.
But now along comes Osama the Black Dude....dancing his jig, singing his tune, shuckin his jive....and Mr. Stuffy Liberal White Guys Dodd and Biden go down.
Think they're happy about that? Think they're saying, "isn't diversity great?"
Wrong. They used guys like this for years, but...he wasn't supposed to eat their lunch for them.
Sorry, but I can't help grinning. It's funny to see them get bludgeoned with their own club.
I think there should be a constitutional amendment making military service a prerequisite for executive office.
He has a Senate seat for life if he wants it. People in CT believe in Dodd and always will.
This really bites for the Clintons, as Dodd was supposed to throw his 3 to 5% of support to Hillary..........but, he didn’t have any to throw.....Ha ha ha
Dood had one great moment when he hammered Hillary on drivers licenses for illegal immigrants. He attacked her from the right and made a good impression.
The rest of the time , he went to her left and became just another liberal democrat.
I hope Dodd enjoyed staying at all those 5-star hotels .. he didn’t really accomplish anything else.
I was quite surprised to see a Dodd sign an the Iowa City firetruck during the Univ of Iowa homecoming parade. Dodd???
While everyone else in the U.S. said, "Who was that?"
What a self-absorbed putz.
Hey, 44 votes is nothing to laugh at......Wait a minute, yes it is, hahahahahaha!
Living in Illinois, I'm in no position to throw stones either.
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