The nominee?
Posted on 10/05/2011 1:03:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Those words were spoken today by Georgette Mosbacher, RNC Finance Co-Chair and huge GOP fundraiser, after Chris Christie’s announcement. The “we” is all the big bundlers, fundraisers, and money folks who have been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the field to be set — and that quote represents the coalescing around Mitt Romney that is expected to happen rather quickly now. Mosbacher went on to say:
“I think tomorrow, we’ll be contacting one another and probably put something together with Romney… And I would say that the race is now Romney and Obama. Quite frankly, the enthusiasm wasn’t there at the outset. He’s less conservative than a lot of us would like. However, our first and foremost goal is to defeat Obama. And we do believe Romney, in terms of independents, will be a strong candidate. We will coalesce behind him now… the time has come to get behind him… Tomorrow I’ll be on the phone all day. Quite frankly, it’ll be easier, because now we know who it is who will be our nominee. So we will pull our Rolodexes out and get to work.”
Fellow bundler and sideline-sitter John Catsimatidis added, “I’m going to go with Mitt Romney. I don’t think Perry has it in him to do it. He’s a lot better than Sarah Palin, but not a lot lot better.”
Ouch.
In related news, Romney also scored another major fundraiser from the Draft Christie movement: Ken Langone. Langone is the founder of Home Depot and is described as a “titan” in the political money scene. He backed Rudy Giuliani in 2008, helping Giuliani out raise the other candidates. There is evidence that a great deal of the money that had sat on the sidelines so far in this race will now fall into Romney’s coffers.
Rick Perry, for his part, got the endorsement of another Draft Christie member: Gary Kirke, a west Iowa investor and casino owner who had also been sitting on the sidelines until this afternoon.
The nominee?
RINO alert.
I’m getting visions of Bob Dole all over again....same people same money...........not good
Of course. It's his turn. Plus he has good hair.
The sorry part is that unless Palin gets in and runs a very good campaign, they’re right—it will be Mitt.
More than likely and now the MSM will try and destroy Cain.
I pray that Palin is reading this at this moment.
So the GOP does not want to this one? Romney excites about as much an old sock.
Not if individual conservatives are willing to give a hundred or to to Perry or Cain and help them run like hell.
This might be a good time to think about who the Left is trying so hard to take out -- any way that they can. The one that they fear the most -- as Rush would say.
The Annointed One......bow down and worship??????
big shot Democrats said the same thing about Hillary in 2008
If Romney is the nominee, then I don’t bother going to the polls to vote. 100 mph or 75 mph, both are going in the same direction.
Wrong. The goal is to defeat the nominee and Obama may not necessarily be the nominee.
The Mosbachers of course have been problematic Tesxas-New York RINOs in the GOP for a long time. Her deceased husband was on the Ford team against Reagan. It was for his likes that Reagan took Poppy onto his ticket.
I would have to consider not voting if GOP settles for Romney. Romney is not better than Bush and looks where that took the country.
The problem is that Cain, Perry, Gingrich and Santorum are all wittingly or unwittingly playing the role of conservative vote dividers to enable a Romney victory.
My first choice remains the only authentic outsider candidate with the strongest credentials.
The problem is that Cain, Perry, Gingrich and Santorum are all wittingly or unwittingly playing the role of conservative vote dividers to enable a Romney victory.
My first choice remains the only authentic outsider candidate with the strongest credentials.
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