Via Lester and Charlie: Show Me The Money!

 

The GOP 2012 hopefuls are in trouble. The New York Times wrote this week that "fewer than one in five of Mr. Bush's Rangers and Pioneers, the elite corps of 'bundlers' who helped Mr. Bush smash fund-raising records in his two runs for the White House and remain the gold standard of Republican fund-raising, have contributed to any of the current Republican candidates."
 
Whoa! That's big news. Apparently, the current crop of Republicans running for president haven't captured the imagination of the big money guys who flocked to George W. Bush. "None of the candidates have instantly identified themselves as a leader for the Republican movement," said a Florida real estate developer who gave big to Bush and co-chaired his presidential campaign. "Nobody is inheriting any kind of apparatus left over from the Bushes at all," said another.

Why not? They're all certainly conservative enough. And they're all eager to continue Bush's disastrous tax-cuts-to-the-richest policies that started our economy on an icy downhill path. Maybe it's a lack of charisma on the candidates' parts. Or maybe, in the aftermath of the debt-deal debacle, with Obama offering concessions to the GOP that would probably make even Ronald Reagan blush, the money guys like things just the way they are.

It's possible that the big bucks will go to whoever wins the nomination. But it'll be darned hard to win the nomination in the first place if none of these candidates can demonstrate that they can command the attention of 500+ fat cats who gave big in the past.
So what can they do? Lester & Charlie want YOUR opinion:

What do the current crop of GOP candidates have to do to get the big money excited like in the good old days?


 

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