Reply #45: She won her Senate Seat with a huge campaign war chest. [View All]

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You think John Edwards hasn't listed to the people of this country? He has. The reason he hasn't done well is because he couldn't raise the big bucks. You and I both know that is a huge part of it.

Had John Edwards been hugely independently wealthy, like Mitt Romney he could do it too. In fact, I think he could very well be the front runner.

But he doesn't have the money and without the Bill Clinton Presidency, neither would she for the Senate or for the Presidency.

In fact, I read that one of the gripes of the Gore campaign was that Hillary and Bill used all their contacts and influence to fund her Senatorial campaign, instead of Gore's Presidential run. So they messed up Gore in two ways, one by having him tied to the whole Monica thing, and two by having the Democratic establishment prioritize her fund raising instead of his. You remember that at the time, Clinton best buddy Terry McAuliffe was head of the DNC.