Vilsack is a weasel and a lightweight, and I can’t quite understand why Shrillary would bother to pay him for his worthless endorsement. I’m thinking there’s more to it, but how much can it matter?

Freelancer on July 17, 2007 at 4:59 PM

It’s Iowa, dude.

Hillary has to have as much short-term control as possible when the time comes for the Primary vote. Simply burying Obama would be easy – she could do that tomorrow if she wanted to. But that won’t give the media sufficient excuse to keep the 24/7 free coverage coming in. Hillary has to promote the charade that there is a real competition going on. So Hillary has to keep her nationwide numbers as close as possible to Obama’s. Even after the primaries begin, she’ll want to lose a handful and keep the margins fairly close.

Besides: $90,000? That’s pocket change for Hillary.

I don’t know who McCain will endorse (if anybody), but it wouldn’t be a bad thing- he’s still tied with Romney in the polls at around 12% last I looked, and swinging even half that to another candidate could have a significant impact.

Does anyone here who’s in a particular candidate’s corner really plan to stop supporting him if McCain endorses him?

In the short term, it would be great IF McCain would simply ask his supporters to back another candidate and then quietly slink away.

After the 2000 Primaries, I thought McCain was a backbiting weasel, but I never thought he was an idiot. I always assumed he was just in this race to try to gain some more notoriety and leverage in his bid to be “King of the Moderates.” So I always assumed he would have an exit plan.

But every time I said that, people would always say: “No way; the guy’s a certifiable megalomaniac.” And now that it appears he fully intends to go down with the ship, I’m inclined to believe them.

…Anyway, my point is that getting McCain’s endorsement might be the easy part; the hard part would be to keep him from thinking he’s your boss from then on.

He’s already “loaned” $9 million to his campaign; how much more of his own money he’s willing to spend could be a factor.

Very much so. At his level, wealth and cash are two very different things. Just because you are a “billionaire” doesn’t mean you have that many dollar bills sitting around in a safe somewhere, let alone that you don’t mind throwing it away.

The problem is that Romney can free up enough funds to buy a governorship or a strongly influence the initial primaries, but not nearly enough to win a national election.

Romney acts like he’s campaigning, but really everything candidates are spending now is “seed money” – meant to stimulate future donations. I’m hoping that Romney will have a LOT more sense than McCain, and cut his losses if his initial attempt to prime the pump doesn’t pan out.

Heh — most ethical party. Ever.

Does anyone here who’s in a particular candidate’s corner really plan to stop supporting him if McCain endorses him?

Also, I have to wonder if Romney will fall into the same trap as McCain financially- continue to spend big even when donations peter out. He’s already “loaned” $9 million to his campaign; how much more of his own money he’s willing to spend could be a factor.

Seriously, is anybody surprised about this and how openly it occurred? Hillary Clinton BOUGHT her Senate seat by selling Presidential Pardons to terrorists and tax cheats. This is just more of the same and she’ll get away with it because the MSM is a de facto propoganda wing of the Democrat Party and the Clinton campaign.

Vilsack used part of the money to repay himself $55,000, part of a personal loan he had given to his campaign.

Translation: it went in his pocket.

Update: If not for his own fabulous wealth, the better question might be who’s going to buy Mitt’s endorsement.

Based on the report Romney filed with the Federal Election Commission over the weekend, his spending was so prolific he had to lend his committee $6.5 million during the quarter…

That’s a pretty big pocket. The thing you have to remember is that the ONE characteristic all “fabulously wealthy” people share is the love of money. The richer someone is, the more that means that he doesn’t invest money unless he expects to get it back – with interest.

Same goes for McCain, whomever he ends up endorsing should get a bit of a money/organization boost. The voters that come with are tertiary.

People like us are the only ones that even notice. So, yeah…I think it is.

THEY KEEP IT!!

Blatant bribery made possible by our own silly laws…

A president needs to be a little more astute than that. McCain showed he can’t be trusted with big problems.

Got to agree with saiga about a McCain endorsement. Not worth the paper it would be printed on.

His endorsement will be a minus, not a plus. It will be like a Cindy Sheehan or Michael Moore endorsement. McCain really did crash and burn in mindless style.

Exit question: Who’s going to buy McCain’s endorsement after his campaign goes bankrupt?

The guy who loses the bet.

Who’s going to buy McCain’s endorsement after his campaign goes bankrupt?

McCain’s endorsement isn’t worth two cents, unless he comes out supporting Cankles.