Senior Obama adviser David Plouffe has accused Romney campaign contributors of trying to “purchase” the White House for their candidate.
In 2008, Public Citizen’s WhiteHouseforSale.org documented 605 Obama bundlers — 17 of which were lobbyists — piling up $750,767,963 to help buy the White House for Barack Obama.
This was approximately half of the $1,599,797,976 raised for all presidential candidates combined in 2008. By comparison, the grand total of spending by all candidates for the 2004 election was $845 million.
The Obama record of how he rewarded his bundler pals speaks for itself.
Sadly, Public Citizen is no longer maintaining its website.
Romney bought his way through every state, but he couldn’t buy the caucuses and is still doing violence on those delegates who won’t vote for him. I never thought he could be such a criminal! He lost his own home state of Mass as well. He only got ONE delegate there!
I am allowing your comment for one reason only. I’d like to see some proof of your claims, please. All of them. Otherwise, your comment goes straight into the crapper.
The WSJ reported:
“Mr. Romney notched wins in Ohio, Massachusetts, Idaho, Virginia, Vermont and Alaska, …”
The actual results are here. Romney won 72% of the vote and added 41 delegates in Massachusetts.
Here’s the good news: Gadsden Gurl is a Ron Paul supporter. At least she’s not an Obot.
In NH, every official who endorsed him got an influx of cash including those who had campaign debts who were not elected. This is firsthand info. This went on all over the country. One of the NH tea party leaders was offered six figures to travel to claim Mitt was supported by the tea party, another had campaign debts paid off. This would explain why supposedly extreme conservatives like Christine O’Donnell suddenly jumped on the Romney bandwagon. Interesting to note in NH, 30 tea party leaders endorsed someone different… not Romney as that one person claimed on FOX NEWS.
You have to wonder why GOP state committees would be willing to lock the doors to keep out people who were not going to vote for Romney, to them point they tried to have them arrested for not doing so. In Mass he lost every delegate except one during the actual caucus which determines such things, and the GOP there had to break the rules to reclaim them, now being challenged in court. He also lost 11 others that way as well… NE is the last one, the same tactics are being used against delegates who don’t wish to vote for Romney.
http://www.examiner.com/article/haley-the-worst-endorsement-money-can-buy
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/07/35_romney_endorsers_received_contributions_first/
I would never lie to you Brenda… sometimes the truth hurts.
This is old-school politics, sad to say. As a regular reader, you know well the Obama Hope Fund details. Obama was following in the footsteps of every other major candidate in spreading the campaign funds around. In a two-party system, this seems to be the way things work and have worked for many decades.
Well I’m OF COURSE in NO WAY to be construed as making apologies for Obama whom I despise with a passion but I feel we need to clean our own house first with regard to behavior, voting records, etc. We are the ones supposed to be stopping this kind of nonsense.
I totally agree with cleaning house (which, when it comes to voter roles, scares the Dems nearly to death). GOP is headed for extinction and DNC for irrelevancy. Should O get back in the WH, Dems will be discredited until the end of time.