Romney’s White House quest has cost $200 million over the years

[Kadie]

Romney’s White House quest has cost $200 million over the years
BY GREG GORDON
McClatchy Newspapers

First published 38 minutes ago
Updated 32 minutes ago

Washington » Since first setting eyes on the White House, Mitt Romney and his backers have spent over $200 million — including $44.6 million of his fortune — on a seven-year quest for the Republican presidential nomination.

Now, with victories that re-establish him as the front-runner heading into Super Tuesday’s primaries, the former private-equity chief can credit much of his advantage to an expansive fundraising apparatus that has far outdistanced those of his rivals.

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, also can thank former business partners and friends on and around Wall Street who were among his earliest and biggest donors.

A look back shows the depth of Romney’s investment in trying to win the nation’s highest office, how his supporters circumvented federal campaign laws with huge, back-channel donations years before he declared his candidacy, and to whom he might owe favors if he wins.

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. What price ego?

or the primordial desire to surpass Daddy's accomplishments? Oedipal urges being played out on the national stage.

[Alexander]

3. In a way, he will surpass George Romney's accomplishments.

He'll get to be the Republican Party's presidential nominee.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. You are most likely correct

but it stands as testimony to an unbridled ego that would probably spend three times what has been spent thus far in order to pass up Daddy.

[csziggy]

2. The Twenty First Century version of redistribution of wealth?

Though much of that money goes into the already full pockets of media giants.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Only $44.6 million of his own money?

Stop holding out on us, Willard -- spend ALL of it!

[Fuzz]

6. That headline alone shows how fucked up our entire system is.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Just imagine what good that money could have done...

in the hands of someone not so absorbed with attaining personal power

[thelordofhell]

8. This will be a 2 billion dollar general election

easy