McCain to Rely on Party Money

[flashl]

Source: NY Times

Pivoting toward the general election, Senator Barack Obama is turning again to his history-making fund-raising machine, which helped to anoint him as a contender against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and then became a potent weapon in their battle for the Democratic nomination.

To confront the Obama juggernaut, Senator John McCain, whose fund-raising has badly trailed that of his Democratic counterparts, is leaning on the Republican National Committee. Mr. McCain’s efforts to raise money suffered a blow this weekend when a key fund-raiser, Tom Loeffler, resigned because of a new campaign policy on conflicts of interest.

Mr. McCain is likely to depend upon the party, which finished April with an impressive $40 million in the bank and has significantly higher contribution limits, to an unprecedented degree to power his campaign, Republican officials said.

To that end, Republican officials said they were enlisting President Bush, a formidable fund-raiser who has raised more than $36 million this year for Republican candidates and committees, for three events on Mr. McCain’s behalf. They will appear together at a fund-raiser in Phoenix on May 27, and the next day the president will take part in a luncheon with Mitt Romney in Salt Lake City and then an exclusive dinner at Mr. Romney’s vacation home in Park City, Utah.

NY Times

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[rucky]

1. No money for local elections, then?

pity.

[Happyhippychick]

2. George Bush is the fundraiser? Isn't he supposed to be, you know, running the country????

[jmowreader]

8. I wish he'd spend the rest of his term out fundraising

America's safer when he's out fundraising. He can't start any more wars from the comfort of a King Leisure Bed in his suite on the seventh floor.

[happygoluckytoyou]

3. THINK ANY OF THAT JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN MONEY WILL SMELL OF CORP INTERESTS?

NAAH.... when your average john with 19 houses runs for president....

I HOPE THE GOP BLOWS IT ENTIRE BUDGET ON THAT FAILURE...
...IT WILL LEAVE OPEN SO MANY MORE RACES

the GOP is riding the greased track on the STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS TO HELL


...and as they are PAYING FOR HIM.... let's make certain this "maverick" is now properly branded...

JOHN "THE BUSH REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN

maverick
1867, "calf or yearling found without an owner's brand," in allusion to Samuel A. Maverick (1803-70), Texas cattle owner who was negligent in branding his calves. Sense of "individualist, unconventional person" is first recorded 1886, via notion of "masterless."

[dhill926]

4. Hmmmm....

two meetings of Bush and Romney? Possible VP (or replacement) there?

[Virginia Dare]

5. Sweet! I hope McCain makes daily appearances with the shrub..

and the Dems should run daily ads featuring sound-bites! Run against both BUSH and MCCAIN!

[annabanana]

6. Didn't the RNC just tell all the pubbies on the Hill

that they were "on their own"?

Dark days in the Elephant pen.. indeed.

[brooklynite]

7. Since McCain has already had to fire someone for double-teaming...

between his campaign and a 527 group, how long's it going to be before another conflict of interest / FEC violation pops up?