Rick Santorum proved that it doesn’t take money. Presence and hard work and local coverages make up for an awful lot. The guy should be in 4 different spots every day making it on 4 different 6 oclock local stations.
Obama, by the way, can spend because he knows the media will cover him the last 8 weeks of the campaign. That’s why he’s spending now to define Romney. Romney should expect the same kind of coverage from Fox, given their support of him since 2010.
And, yes, I want to see a candidate fighting back with the resources that they have.
Oh, in a national general election it most definitely does take money - incredible amounts of it. Money overcomes everything...almost. Money is how a Marxist/Fascist fool like Obama could get elected.
We all want to see a candidate fight back. I think Romney is fighting back and being proactive to boot...but just shotgun blast, willy-nilly do-something disease won’t get it done. That’s what Obama is doing and I propose to you that it is failing miserably.
Rick Santorum is not a good example...as great a guy as he is he couldn’t under the most optimistic circumstances have launched a successful national campaign. He’s a great niche candidate but that’s the best he could hope for - to end up as the last man standing. He did great, better than anyone could ever have expected but he over-performed and it wouldn’t have carried over into a general election campaign.