Michele Bachmann’s “Moneybomb” (emphasis on the 'bomb')

[brooklynite]

from Red State:

Stealing a page from Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann launched a 24-hour moneybomb today with a modest goal of $240,000. At this point, however, its beginning to look like her bomb may turn out to be a dud. As of 7 p.m. EDT, Bachmann had only raised $86,941. This is only about 35% of her goal almost halfway through the fundraising 24 hour period. Earlier in the day, she had ads up on the internet, including RedState, which seem to have been taken down.

Even if she were to reach her goal, that pales in comparison to the $1 million moneybomb dropped by Ron Paul with 24 hours of the first debate, and the $10.3 million raised by Mitt Romney in a 24 hour period last week. Even Tim Pawlenty raised almost $2 million in house party events accompanying the announcement of his candidacy. By attempting a moneybomb, Bachmann runs a serious risk by publicly demonstrating over the internet her fund-raising ability/inability which is previously untested as a potential Presidential candidate. If she fails in this effort, or barely succeeds, it will be a major set back to her candidacy.

Gee, I'd hate to have the Republicans lose out on her candidacy; maybe we should consider helping her out...

[KansDem]

1. Calling Koch Bros! Calling Koch Bros!

Your assitance is needed!

[WhiteTara]

2. Bring paper towels for clean up on aisle 4 n/t

[pscot]

3. $86K is not chopped liver

You could buy a condo in Merida with that.

[brooklynite]

4. C'mon. If the Christian Fundamentalist rubes...

...could pony up a million dollars to announce that the World is ending in October, they should be able to come up with another million for Michelle's Presidential campaign in 2012.


Okay, that didn't come out right...