Posted on 01/31/2008 8:58:21 PM PST by logician2u
San Diego, CA --
Mitt Romney gave 18 million dollars of his own money to his campaign in the last three months of 2007. In total, he has poured 35 million dollars of his personal fortune into his campaign.
The Romney camp also reported raising 9 million dollars in donations in the fourth quarter equaling 53.5 million dollars for the entire year. The campaign spent 33.8 million during the last 3 months of the year equaling 87.6 million dollars spent in 2007. The camp reports having 2.4 million dollars cash on hand at the end of the year. The campaign did not release any numbers for January meaning that Romney may have donated even more than 35 million dollars to his campaign.
The camp launched an aggressive ad blitz today signaling that former Massachusetts governor may have used more of his vast wealth, which is estimated at upwards of 250 million dollars.
Campaigns were required to file their end of the year finance reports today with the Federal Election Commission.
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Do conservatives give up and let McCain take the nomination without a fight? That’s the big question. We’ll find out on Super Tuesday.
The Conservative base that are on his payroll.
I come to the conclusion Chuck Norris like most Actors are stupid people and if they did not have lines fed to them they could not composed one sentence!
Huckabee Is dangerousn because HUCK can walk and chew gum for the LEFT at the same time!
It gives me great pleasure to know how much money is going to lose a futile campaign that is going nowhere.
At least he’s not accepting money from the Chinese, the Arabs or any other group.....
One more reason to respect Mitt Romney.
That’s going to be the new bumper sticker for the dems.
With Bush it was “he stole the election”
With Romney it will be “he bought the election”
Mark my words.
“Chuck Norris was whining on Hannity & Colmes the other night that Romney is “buying the presidency.”
I’d rather have a guy using his own money to get elected than a guy who will be owned by those who donate to him.
Just heard Michael Savage endorse Romney a few minutes ago.
Oh L-rd won't you buy me a job as the prez.....
The problem is, Huckabee siphons the Conservative vote away from Mitt and McCain wins.
Huck needs to drop out and endorse Mitt and take the VEEP spot.
(I won’t flip for Mitt. I won’t follow McCain down the drain. So I’m stuck with Huck!)
If one of these guys becomes Pres., I wonder if FR and JR are going to host any big DC balls like they did in 2000 when W won.
A better direction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-2rjrpumhU&feature=related
Nope I don’t want it to be like that, I didn’t mean to say that I think he’s necessarily better for using his own money (though that can be looked at two different ways). I was just thinking to myself last night that it shuts out a lot of good men who might be in this race now if the money that campaigns cost now didn’t knock them out before they can begin. I agree that that’s obscene.
No, the Clinton’s would just get the Chinese or...someone else to pay for their “ideals”. (puke)
Power-grab? Getting hysterical aren’t we?
He’d never endorse Mitt, I just wish he drop out.
Huckabee is in this for Huckabee. He knows he can’t win, he just hopes if he runs a block against Romney, he’ll get some scraps from McCain’s table.
There are different brands of conservatives, as you know. Of late, it's the pro-war brand that seems most willing to call themselves "conservative" whether or not they share some of the other attributes generally ascribed to conservatism. In that category you will find both Gov. Romney and Sen. McCain.
The so-called social conservatives, who Huckabee purports to be, could care less about balanced budgets, lower taxes, or how large the fedgov is growing to. Romney barely fits into that particular pigeonhole, as he is a recent convert to the pro-life cause.
Fiscal conservatives, who are generally more interested in how much money the government takes in than in how it's spent, are allegedly backing McCain because of his tight-fistedness when it comes to budgetary matters. If you can show by example that Romney was indeed a fiscal conservative while Mass. governor, please do.
All that said, the "base" of the Republican party, as is the base of the Democratic party, is by and large non-ideological. They are party animals, willing to forsake principle in the interest of gaining electoral power. So I would have trouble agreeing with anyone who calls the "base" conservative, of any stripe.
Sorry.
Ah, you’re just pimping for Mike, why didn’t you just say so?? I like Mike, but I won’t vote for him for POTUS.
I wouldnt give RINO Romney a chance to be my janitor
Oh L-rd won’t you buy me a job as the prez.....
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President Janice Joplin ????
That could work...
We’d have a white woman nominee too
Same age as Hillary
and can sing
(psssst That’s important cause Hillary said she cant sing )
LOL
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