to terrorize GOP candidates away from entering the race. Would explain a lot about the weak GOP field, the affluent candidate that the establishment is backing, and the early concessions this year.

Has anybody backed up the Dems war chest $ figure projection, or is it still an empty threat?

Obama Fundraising Advantage Disappearing.

Obama’s money man has been quoted as saying the “billion dollar bankroll” is BS, in a conversation with another liberal loon.

Wall Street has shut Comrade Obozo down. Guess they got tired of being called Fat Cats. They have been pouring a lot into Mitt Romney’s campaign fund. They must smell a winner.

Some of his opponents have been arguing that Romney has been running for 6 years, as though that was some of kind of detriment. Well, he has been running for 6 years, and it shows. He has the money, the state-by-state organization and the party support needed to win the primary election and compete in the general election. None of his opponents are even close. If Gingrich or Santorum do manage to win the primary, I don’t like their chances going up against Obama’s state-by-state campaign machine.

One of the arguments that drives me nuts goes like this: “Why would we nominate the guy who lost to McCain, after McCain lost to Obama?” Well, we nominated the guy who lost to Ford, after Ford lost to Carter, and he wiped the floor with Carter. Again, Reagan had been running for years and had built up a national organization and a core of support, that served him well in the general election.

Romney is no Reagan, but he gives us our best shot at beating Obama, because his campaign is most prepared for the fight to come. Newt seemed to think that he could drink a Diet Coke, call his grandchildren and then decide to run for President. He simply isn’t ready for the full fight. He’s skilled enough on his own to score the ocassional direct hit (like SC), but he can’t sustain it.

Goldwater, Reagan, Buckley, et al were very patient and persistent. They didn’t throw fits when they had setbacks, they just kept fighting and building. In the meantime, they supported the “establishment” candidates that won the nominations. If the Tea Party movement is to really last and have an impact, we need to buck up, be more patient, and fight for the better alternative we have at the time. We weren’t ready to field a viable candidate this year – that is the reality.

If a candidate campaigns like a Democrat, complete with lies and disingenuous promises, don’t complain if the candidate governs like a Democrat, complete with corrupt attorneys general and disingenuous speeches.

I, for one, think it is important NOT to become what I hate.

have a short memory or are simply too young to remember Newt in the 80′s and 90′s. Newt was the shark that ate other sharks. And unlike Romney, Newt attacked Democrats, not Republicans. Do some research on what happened to Wright after Newt decided to go after him, and Newt did it without the lib media on his side. McCain was also great at attacking other Republicans, and that shark had paper teeth when it came to Obama.

What is your gripe?

RE: Romney’s “victory” in Florida. I think it is a TERRIBLE MODEL for democracy that the person with the biggest check wins public office.

Is that really how we want to govern this country – no winning by IDEAS, character, ability – just poll driven drivel spewed onto a zillion negative ads and into the living rooms of the gullible?

That Citizens United decision was a nail in our coffin. Romney’s model for victory is a disgrace.

“How has the GOP establishment managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again,” has an easy answer, to a country-club Republican Romney is an ideal President. He is the kind of man they look up to.

But don’t despair, conservatives almost defeated the elite in 76, there was no Tea Party movement then, and Ford was an incumbent. The downside is that conservatives are split today, in 76 it was either Ford or Reagan.

Newt is very much in the right about this lunar vision. To be the best you must think like the best. Its called goals. Its called motivation. Its called bragging rights!!!!!! This country is so embarrassed about winning we hand out trophies to the people that sucked. To think of all the technological advances that would be created striving for this goal would be fascinating. And hell ya it can be done in the private sector. Will it possibly need some financial backing from the GOV? Sure, but at least that’s a measurable task (Did ya hit the moon or not? instead of “ya we spent billions, did it work? errrrrrrrr ask again later when I get re-elected”)

Now, was it the proper time to drop an idea like this, obviously not since it made peoples heads pop when it came out of RIGHT field. People cant comprehend thinking positive when their heads are so far up their _ _ _ runinning around like chickens about the economy. We need to get off the couches, put the twinkie down ( isn’t that company tanking too? oh the irony), and start making some products. People buy products. And the pieces fall in place. There will always be poor. We need to send OUR poor information on the poor in other countries. They wont think they’re so screwed at that point. Our poor don’t eat mud pies. They can now shut up and start taking the jobs from the illegal aliens (well…if we get this minimum wage BS taken care of)

of Democratic Super PACs that are already gaining huge financial support for Obama’s presidency… it stands pretty good reason that Obama can outspend him.

Only time will tell.

and Romney spent massively in Iowa only to get beaten in a squeaker by the meagerly funded Rick Santorum.

So if the primary serves as any kind of microcosm , Romney needs to vastly outspend his opponent in order to have a chance.

And Romney has also benefitted from very favorable media and journalists who were happy to coordinate with him in attacking Gingrich.

So, let’s say for the sake of argument he could match Obama in spending, Obama would still have a much larger number of media outlets attacking Romney and amplifying his message.

Plenty of articles debunked the Democrats’ cash advantage in 200 8. And then, they actually produced the money.

Now they’re saying they can do it again. I like the National Journal generally, but the smart money says that the Democrats will succeed at raising at least as much as they did the last time, if not more.

the Wall Street crowd will not be in Obama’s tank this time, whether it is Romney or Newt, though of course they would prefer Romney. Wall Street is beginning to see that another four years of Obama just might give us an economic collapse. Wall Street doesn’t mind a Democrat managed economy, they negotiate around that quite well, but a meltdown is something quite different, they can’t move their money overseas fast enough to save themselves.

I also got the feeling that the listing of all the executive orders Gingrich claimed he would write on the first day in office (or did he go so far as to say on the day of his inauguration?!) was shark-jumping territory too. With its over pious finish, the speech all sounded a little desperate and unrealistic to me. Maybe it was part of Newt’s outreach to his big money guys, but I thought it fed into his general negatives for overreach and grandiosity. Gingrich is a brilliant orator, and I just thought he could have done it more wisely w/o that time frame.

Newt’s base loved it, but whether his statements will help his candidacy with other Repubs, I’m less sure.

To be honest, I don’t think it’s in Romney to just curl into the fetal position and let Obama have his way with him. The guy is too ambitious.

I’m open to the possibility that Romney would be a pleasant surprise.

Laying down and getting run over by others. Give me a break.

Romney may not come out and sound like a stone cold killer when he talks but he most certainly is willing to go for the throat to make sure he succeeds.

to prepare for the presidency, texashistorian.

No one outside of Texas knew much about him. It helped less that he was making mistakes in front of the live camera.Which made a mockery out of the man.

I hope he comes back with a vengeance next election cycle though.

That’s the truth. If we’re going to blame anyone for Rick Perry entering the race as the frontrunner and leaving the race a sad joke, then blame the man himself.

I’ve heard stronger Texan accents that leave you in no doubt that the guy speaking is significantly smarter than you could ever hope to be.

Maybe Perry should of outspent his opponents 15 to 1 or got the media on his side because what he did do failed miserably.

the extent to which Romney could achieve victory.

His milquetoast mein isn’t going to lend itself to coattails, and will likely cost us some close House and Senate and Statehouse races that, with a candidate who can lead from the front, we could take.

I don’t see Romney as the best candidate of the bunch.

Mew

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Here’s how it works:

Romney beats Newt.
Obama beats Romney.
Therefore Obama beats Newt.

In mathmetical terms: 10 is greater than 5 which is greater than 1

Therefore 10 is greater than 1.

Your logic is beyond laughable.

Perhaps the small matter that we are not all worth $200 MILLION stopped us from doing that.

Citizens United was a victory because it allowed Republican Corporate donors to offset the giant union contributions that had always been allowed.

If Citizens United had not passed it would have made precisely ZERO difference to Willard The Rat’s media buy in Florida. He would not have been limited in any way because he was spending his own money.