Bush Breaks Own Campaign Fund - Raising Records

[Khephra]

Bush smashed his own campaign fund-raising record in the last three months, bringing in $49.5 million for his re-election bid and eclipsing the financial efforts of his Democratic rivals.

The financial haul for July, August and September broke Bush's own record of $34.4 million raised in the second quarter of the year and gave him a total of nearly $84 million, campaign officials said on Tuesday.

That is far more than any of his Democratic rivals will have raised when reports are filed with the Federal Election Commission by the end of the day on Wednesday, and puts Bush nearly halfway to his goal of raising $170 million for his unopposed Republican primary campaign.

Campaign manager Ken Mehlman said more than $70 million of the total was raised at campaign fund raisers around the country headlined by Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. He told reporters the donations came from 262,000 contributors in nearly every county in the United States.

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-politics-money.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Well

he's still going down like a cheap whore.

262,000 contributers? I'm sure 75% are going to stop payment on the checks that they wrote.....

Hawkeye-X

[FlashHarry]

2. What the hell is he going to do with all that money???

He's running unopposed for the GOP nomination! What the hell is he going to do--blanket the airwaves with wall-to-wall TV spots? Pay covert operatives to 'ratf*ck' the opposition? I'm worried, people!

This is so obscene, I hope it becomes a campaign issue.

[asjr]

4. fund

It may cost them a bundle to get someone to rig the voting machines. I suppose this is what it is all about. And he has been on the road raising money more than he has been governing (and I use that word loosely) the country. Why are so many people giving him money? Are they just really stupid? And I, for one, do not believe the latest CNN poll. They must have polled only Repubs.

[ps1074]

5. Pretty obvious

With no opposition and primary ending with the convention he will wait till a Dem candidate is selected and start ads 24/7 in key swinging states. He will spend all the 170 mill for 2,3 months spreading lies.

[tom_paine]

6. All that Nixon stuff AND MORE.

All you have to remember is this:

What the Nixonviks got caught doing to the Democrats and the nation, fraud- and theft-wise (not to mention straight up criminality like bugging offices and stealing papers), the Busheviks get away with easily and often in broad daylight.

Above and beyond that, with the help of PATRIOT and TIA, of course, the Busheviks likely spy on and "ratfuck" their enemies on levels approaching that of Third World nations.

Of course, the Busheviks USUALLY don't get all bloody, but only because they don't have to.

[StopThief]

7. Exactly what Clinton did to Dole in '96.

You remember, when the American people thought Dole's first name was Gingrich. LOL

[Bandit]

9. Oh the poor penniless Dole ~ GOP had no money to fight with?

Yeh that's the ticket. That's why Dole lost. He had no money to counter Clinton's lies. That's the Ticket.

[diplomats]

16. Only Clinton didn't have anywhere near $170 million

However, unopposed incumbents always have this advantage. We'd better get used to it.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Let's hear it for Graft and the American Way!

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[Democat]

8. When Davis raised money it was proof he was a crook

When Bush does it, it's proof of how great he is.

[Gin]

10. he finally found something he is good at...

gin

[Jack The Tab]

11. I have heard this is the potential spin for GOP in 2004

That because Bush has raised so much money, from EVERY SINGLE County in the blah blah blah, they will be touting this as evidence of his popularity.

Of course, the way our media works, they wont tell the sheep that in every county, John and Jane Farmerfreep sent him a check for $50 while Bechtel and Halliburton gave him checks for $500K.

I read this a while ago, and lo and behold, here it goes.

[Newsjock]

13. CNN just repeated that

"145,000 people had each contributed $200 or less."

So let's do the math. If they average $50 each:
145,000 x $50 = $7.25 million
==> $76.75 million from big donors (91% of total)

If they average $100 each:
145,000 x $100 = $14.5 million
==> $69.5 million from big donors (83% of total)

If they average the maximum of $200 each:
145,000 x $200 = $29 million
==> $55 million from big donors (65% of total)

No matter how you slice it, the bulk of Bush's support does not come from Joe Sixpack. It comes from corporate America.

Say it loud.

[Loyal]

14. Yeah

nt

[Democat]

15. When Democrats raise money, the media bashes them

When Republicans raise money, the media praises them.

[Loyal]

12. Rush Limbaugh would have donated,

you know, but he's too busy with step 3 of his rehab.

[PurityOfEssence]

17. Takes a lot of money to get sheep to vote wolf

As for the question of what he could possibly do with all that money, never forget that Republicans have no concept of "enough" money.

[Gin]

18. We wil still beat him...all the money in the world will not help his sorry

ass.

The grass roots are going to do this thing ( kick his ass out of our house)...because... "we are mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore!" Money can't compete with that determination!

[Selwynn]

19. This is EXACTLY why Bush is going to win again, with ease.

While we all sit around here and gloat about how "bad" things look for Bush, we can't even get a bold front-running candidate, and se seem to have forgotten that money is what wins elections, period.

If Bush has ten times the money of his contender, it wouldn't matter if butthumped Saddam Hussain while on the phone selling CIA secrets to China in the back of a Mafia owned Limo which was secretly bugged by the FBI which caught him making fun of poor people and miniorities and expressing total disreguard for an enonomy worse than anything we've seen in 100 years and an bragging about an unemployment rate of 36% - he'd STILL win.

Cynically (but rightfully) yours,
Sel

[Malva Zebrina]

20. from another hopeless cynic

the person with the most money, wins. (sad, but generally true, imo) Imagine if Bush would give all that money that he does not need to crippled children? Or to needy elderly citizens who do not have health care? Or to help the homeless find shelter and jobs? NO--this compassionate conservative, and I say that with deserved contempt, is raking in all that money, half of it paid for by the US taxpayer, so he and his buddies will have MORE money and MORE power bought and paid for--It is absolutely obscene--OBSCENE--that becoming a president requires millions upon millions of dollars to do so. OBSCENE.!!!!

[maggrwaggr]

21. Tony Soprano getting his cut. "I gave you that tax cut. Pony up."

It's pretty obvious that's what's going on.