Wow, remember all those claims that America would be better off with President Mitt Romney because he's such a talented businessman and so good at money and all?
Well, guess what. The alleged Republican front-runner has fallen short of his first-half-of-2011 fundraising goal by a cool $31.75 million.
Yep, you read that right. The initial Romney target: $50 million. The actual number, released today: $18.25. We cats say, pathetic.
We don't want to rub it in, but we recall yawning over the veracity of Romney's much-ballyhooed, $10-million-in-a-day Las Vegas phone-a-thon awhile back. We claimed there was no there there. Now more than ever, we think we were right. Some enterprising reporter with a lot of time on his hands should call all 800 of those Romney phone-a-thoners and ask them how much money they really raised.
In the meantime, since we're obviously so good at making Romney-related predictions, we now have two more:
First, heads will roll in Mitt's money operation sometime this month. Second, sooner or later we'll learn that anemic fundraising was the real reason Romney decided to skip the Iowa straw poll in August. They knew then that money was going to be, um, a little tight.
And perhaps we can put to rest forever the idea that a businessperson would make the best President? The death of that canard would make us cats truly PURR.
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