Why Hillary's Supporters Need to Dig Deeper In Their Pockets.

[David Zephyr]

I admire Hillary's supporters who are digging into their pockets to send her donations now that her fat cats have all topped out in how much they can give to her dying campaign. I really gotta hand it to them for sticking with her.

It takes real fortitude to write a check to further the ambitions of a political couple who made over $100 million in the last seven years, but who only will "loan" their campaign money from their own pockets to fund that ambition. It takes real loyalty to ignore the fact that the Clintons could easily write a big fat check without calling it a "loan" to be paid back at a later date.

After all, that's what other mega-millionaires like Mitt Romney and Ross Perot did. They didn't ask their working class supporters to pay them back for the money they kicked in. I can't help but wonder what the interest rate on that "loan" is. 5%? 6%? 7%? Although, I imagine it doesn't matter how much the rate is to her donors.

It takes real dedication to write a check to the Clinton's campaign knowing that millions of those dollars (yes, millions) are going to creepy people like Mark Penn who "work" for the Clintons and who get paid before Hillary's working-class staffers even get their own health-care bills paid. And since Mark Penn was "fired" (it all depends on what the definition of "fired" is, I guess) and is still on the payroll, I guess that Hillary's supporters will need to still dig deeper to help Mr. Penn continue to live his high-rolling, jet-setting lifestyle in order to help Hillary while he is still "fired".

Yes, I have to give it up in complete respect for Hillary's donors. Sacrificing their own hard earned dollars to underwrite the high living of the Clintons and their advisers while her campaign shows no signs of promise whatsoever is a real testament to her supporters.

[ruggerson]

1. dude, do you have some kind of psychological defect?

[Texas Hill Country]

6. LOL

[TheWraith]

Well, you can't contradict what he says, so you insult him personally.

What, is he "morally or intellectually confused," Secretary Rumsfeld?

[jgraz]

23. Well, you go to the primaries with the candidate you have...

Stuff happens...

[David Zephyr]

15. I'm "crazy" with admiration for her supporters.

I am in awe.

[IndianaGreen]

39. Here you go, ruggerson: Obama is 44!

Hillary: What do I do now?

[DJ13]

2. A big ouch, but on the mark

:thumbsup:

[AllentownJake]

3. two words for you

Awesome Post

[Diane R]

4. How many online donations does it take to pay Penn his $100,000.00 a day salary?

[Veronica.Franco]

24. Perhaps Penn ...

Should donate the millions made in the Columbian deal? ... I don't see giving Clinton donations when she has fat cats all around her weighing her down ...

[Alii]

40. Ok,

but what 'bout hubby's millions made on the Colombian deal?

[TexasObserver]

5. Yes, it's serious chutzpah to ask their retired base on fixed incomes to send them money.

You're 65, you live on a fixed income of $14,000 a year, but why not eat cat food for a month so you can send Hill and Bill $100 to help them pay for Hillary's fancy hotel rooms, corporate jets, and $500 haircuts?

Not a loan, like they're doing, but a gift. Because they need the money!!

[JVS]

9. You can eat cat-food so that Mark Penn can eat caviar.

[hogwyld]

13. Have you seen Penn?

More like cavier on pork rinds.

[David Zephyr]

31. Mark Penn has a big ($6 Million) appetite for Hillary's donor money.

Months ago, it was reported that Hillary's campaign had already paid pollster Mark Penn's firm $4.3 million, with another $1.5 million owed, for consulting services, mail and other campaign "activities".

[roguevalley]

34. pay the vendors before the collection agencies make headlines

and let that fat fucker go.

[quakerboy]

32. Ha

My visual imagination is nonexistant, but I can almost see that

[Kahuna]

27. Same diff...Sort of..

:shrug:

[panader0]

Agree with the OP, but a question about those $500.00 haircuts

How much was Edwards haircut? It may have been the thing that turned a lot of folks against him. Do you have any info on her haircut costs?

[JimGinPA]

38. $1500 For Hair Styling - $4500 For Professional Makeup Consultations...

Per Matt Taibbi.

[PetraPooh]

16. She pays $500 for that awful helmet hair cut?? !!! n/t

[TexasObserver]

20. I'm guessing. Look at how well the coloring is done. She's gotta be 100% gray.

That's quite a dye job she has done. She's not even blonde. She was dishwater brown before going gray, and has dyed it for decades. She has to have that hair done once a week, or the gray would be showing through.

She's dedicated to bringing back the Mullet!

[eridani]

36. Oh, please! Her hair looks fine

--says this 60 yr old with Clairol Medium Golden Brown hair.

[TexasObserver]

45. Yes, her hair looks fine. The point was the COST to her campaign, passed on to contributors.

I'm sure you don't think she does her own hair. She has someone do it, and it has to be done at least weekly, or her real hair color would show through at the roots.

[eridani]

48. That's part of campaigning. If you are a politician at a national level--

--you don't do cheap clothes and hair.

[sniffa]

21. Oh dear

:rofl:

"helmet hair"

:rofl:

[democrattotheend]

7. You're probably going to inspire some of the Clinton supporters to donate

Just warning you. If someone wrote a post like this about Obama that would be my reaction.

[sniffa]

11. Good. She desperately needs them too

What's more important? Your mortgage, or Hillary's campaign?

Dig deep.

[David Zephyr]

12. Precisely, sniffa.

:)

[JVS]

8. It reminds me of people in the middle ages giving up everything and joining monastic orders...

while the pope lived in splendor greater than that of any king.

[rug]

10. A 1.9MM Southside mansion is a hut compared to that.

[BzaDem]

14. It reminds me of... hypocritical Obama supporters.

They go nuts when she loaned herself 5 million dollars. Unfair, blah blah. Obama's money comes from the people. Blah, blah, blah.

But when Clinton's money comes from the people? NOOOOO -- she needs to self finance her campaign.

Rediculous.

[Yael]

17. Dig deep

She needs to replenish her savings account!

[Binka]

18. Only Unwanted Visitors Spell RIDICULOUS With An E

See ya.

[jgraz]

22. He also spelled "no" with, like, 4 extra O's.

What a moran.

[Kahuna]

28. Dead give away, isn't it?

<cough> freep <cough> er...


Just kidding. :)

[PetraPooh]

19. I heard a few snickers, and some judgementality that it was a loan and not an investment/

donation to her own campaign; but I never heard/read anything suggesting that she shouldn't spend her own money, just that she shouldn't "loan" it. And that it was saying something really cool that Obama didn't need to because he had so much support.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. What a dumbass post.

And why did I waste my time reading it?

[Tarheel_Dem]

35. Dig deep.....

:hi:

[Kahuna]

26. ...

:popcorn:

[dsc]

29. actually it has to be a loan as a legal matter

and yes, you should know that. Kerry had to loan money to his campaign, Romney to his, and anyone else to theirs.

[Kaleva]

33. Interesting

If I understand this correctly, then a candidate is held to the same contribution limit as anyone else even when it's to their own campaign.

[Alii]

41. Loans?

Lets see, Romney loaned (donated) over $35 million to his own campaign. Had he thought that he could have stayed in the running he would have "loaned" himself even more.

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/31/romney-loans-18-million-dollars-to-his-campaign/

$5 million vs. potential $100 million +...rather paltry. Lack of confidence?

I just "loaned" myself $50 million for my campaign. Now I'm forced out of the race. Just how am I going to repay my loan? Please don't answer, that's a rhetorical question. Make "speeches" in Dubai? Colombia?

[dsc]

44. clearly the loan often doesn't get paid back

but they are recorded as loans nonetheless.

[Alii]

47. Yep!

Semantics and the fine print.

I have no qualms with candidates not having to finance their own campaign, even Hillary. If they were marketable they wouldn't have to. The core of the issue though, is as someone mentioned, Hillary was initially financed by a few "fat cats" donating huge amounts of monies whereas Barack was basically financed by millions with small donations. And even then, that might be acceptable. However, it is her gross mismanagement of her campaign staff and finances that makes it somewhat ludicrous that she is appealing to the masses, the poor, to help finance her failing candidacy. C'mon, donate, we need her to pay her debts to our universities, et al., in California, et al. Oh, and don't forget health insurance payments, et al.

[uberblonde]

30. Solutions are still cheaper than hope.

But stay classy, Dave!

[Cha]

37. And hilary's solution is to lie which is

uber expensive.

[Catherina]

42. The Audacity of Hopelessness. Priceless

:hi:

[anonymous171]

43. Paying for your own campaign makes you look weak. Clinton is already insecure about her strength.

[thevoiceofreason]

46. And $500 per ticket for Elton?