Okay, we know that the Supreme Court handed down that loathsome Citizens United decision, and the Koch brothers are out there just waiting to dump tons of money into the general election to defeat President Obama. But we cats thought it might be a good use of time to make a quick check on the financial state of the 2012 Republican clown college.
The much-unloved GOP "frontrunner" Mitt Romney is reporting $14.2 million this quarter and proclaiming himself pleased. (We forget, is that amount more or less than he's personally spending to add 100 more rooms to his 350-room mansion in California?)
The problem for Romney is when you look beneath the surface, you see a few wrinkles. As in: He only has 55,000 unique contributors. That's it? The guy's been running for President for 83 years, and Michele Bachmann outpaces him by 37,000 individual donors? Beating him by a ratio of 3:2? As Ross Perot used to say, that's just sad.
We've long suspected that Mitt's money-raising was a lot of smoke and mirrors. This is just more of the same. Remember the silly dialing-for-dollars marathon in Las Vegas? How ridiculous was that? We don't understand why a candidate who's favored by the Republican establishment — many of whom grew up at his daddy George's knee — has to resort to such sleights of hand. But apparently he does.
Of course, on the other hand, at least he's not broke.
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