You know . . . you’re right. Money is playing a decisive role in the nomination.
You know something else? Everyone had the same chance to build a national fund raising network over a period of years and relentlessly focus hard work and long hours to the task of victory.
Everyone had this chance.
Not everyone was tough enough, or had a sufficiently strong work ethic, or was simply smart enough, to do it. Some kicked back and mused over whether or not to run. Some decided to run and talked it over with their friends and did essentially nothing more, and never spent time building a nationwide array of support.
To then try to transform an absence of desire into something admirable — trying to contrast it with the hard workers and make a case that by doing nothing you show yourself absent a hunger for power — that’s an after-the-fact excuse for failure to work. But forget even this spin. The fact is some worked hard and some did not.
Spending a year or two on airplanes trying to sleep in strange beds in hotels in order to visit with people who may not care what you have to say is very hard work. Don’t disparage those who did it to raise the money to win.
Fair enough. But I’m still not behind the latest campaign for change “Mittamorphasis”