McCain accepted public financing because he new that he could not raise $87 million on his own, much less compete with the hundreds of millions that 0bama could raise. Given the disparity between the 2 in financing, and 0bama’s thousands of media cheerleaders across the country, and everything else going against him, he didn’t do too bad.
I believe Gov. Palin could raise lots of money. Another advantage she will have over all the others who run in the primaries is a strong ground operation, Team Sarah is already closing in on 63,000 right now, and there are a lot of other supporters out there who will work hard for her in every state. Gov. Palin has to beat 0bama at his own game, hundreds of thousands of loyal followers and volunteer workers, and lots of money. She’ll have the media against her, so she’ll have to utilize the internet to speak directly to the American people, through something like Sarah Palin Radio, and youtube videoes.
0bama also utilized thousands of his followers to swamp comment sections of every online paper and magazine with their vile comments, she will have to outdo that also, but her supporters will at least keep it civil.
It can be done, but it will take a lot of organization. Organize, organize, organize.
The interesting thing Bill said was that McCain’s numbers tanked for 3 days after Powell’s announcement to support Obama and thus sabotage the McCain campaign. Perhaps Powell was much more of a traitor to the GOP than I originally thought and I, for one, despise him more than I already have.