“So if Palin runs, she isn’t going to take big donations? How’s that going to work running against Obummers massive cash machine?”
Exactly! You CANNOT be a candidate and make that statement at the same time. Every single serious GOP candidate needs millions in campaign contributions.
All of the top candidates, Bachmann, Romney, Perry are raising millions. None of them are pay-to-play leaders.
Perry operates two tax payer funded slush funds in Texas right now and has for years. He rewards his campaign donors with money from theses funds.
He may have learned this from that other three term southern governor who ran for president back in the day, Bill Clinton.
He too ran the same kind of scam.
Exactly! You CANNOT be a candidate and make that statement at the same time. Every single serious GOP candidate needs millions in campaign contributions.
Sure you can be a candidate and make that statement. Given her real platform, going in with no strings attached to really-no-kidding clean up the mess, she would have no choice but to take the exact position she did, because the big contributions are indeed part of the problem.
But your response to her is instructive. In every generation, real innovation sweeps into some stale, conventional area and turns everything upside down. But the owners of the conventional wisdom seldom see the innovation coming until it is too late.
Nevertheless, innovate she will, because real cleanup is what she really means to do, and there is just no way to do it without real independence. Can she pull it off? That's a fair and open question. Personally, I’m betting she can. It’s one of the main reasons I’m backing her over Perry.
And I also know she’s not alone in the quest to solve this problem. This idea, or some variation of it, is being kicked around by other reform-minded pols. I ran for office myself back in 2010 (and lost), but I ran into people who were trying to solve the exact same problem. There's a lot of energy in that effort, because the dependency issue big money creates is severely debilitating to the would-be reformer.
But she has some unique advantages in attempting a pioneering solution. She has significant creative intelligence, and has already practiced to some extent running campaigns in which she was outspent by as much as 10 to 1, and yet was able to win. Assuming BO gets his Billion, she'll probably be targeting 100 Million. There are some who think she can do that without big money helpers. I'll venture to say she'll have 10-20% of that amount within four weeks of declaration.
I don't claim to know her whole formula, and I don’t know if she’ll succeed, but I am watching this very closely, as it could become a model for the rest of us, a way to wage political warfare in the future on a much more level playing field. That alone would be well worth the anxiety caused by the risk of trying something new.
Not necessarily...'millions in campaign contributions' isn't her goal, she would rather have 'millions of campaign contibutors!' Net result; 'hundreds of millions' to defeat OBozo.
If Perry isn’t a pay to play politician, tell me who is?????
If Perry isn’t a pay to play politician, tell me who is?????