Hillary Clinton Is Backed by Major Republican Donors

[John Poet]

((Hence all of the "free stuff" derision from Hillary lately? Trying to squeeze some more money out of those Romney donors? ~ JP))


Hillary Clinton Is Backed by Major Republican Donors

An analysis of Federal Election Commission records, by TIME, which was published on 23 October 2015, showed that the 2012 donors to Romney’s campaign were already donating more to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign than they had been donating to any one of the 2016 campaigns of — listed here in declining order below Clinton — Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, or Jim Gilmore. Those major Romney donors also gave a little to two Democrats (other than to Hillary — who, as mentioned, received a lot of donations from these Republican donors): Martin O’Malley, Jim Web, and Lawrence Lessig. (Romney’s donors gave nothing to Bernie Sanders, and nothing to Elizabeth Warren. They don’t want either of those people to become President.)

Clinton is the only Democratic candidate who is even moderately attractive to big Republican donors.

In ascending order above Clinton, Romney’s donors were donating to: John Kasich, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Jeb Bush. The top trio — of Bush, Cruz, and Rubio — together, received around 60% of all the money donated for the 2016 race by the people who had funded Mitt Romney’s 2012 drive for the White House.

So: the Democrat Hillary Clinton scored above 14 candidates, and below 6 candidates. She was below 6 Republican candidates, and she was above 11 Republican candidates (Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, and Jim Gilmore). The 6 candidates she scored below were: Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Scott Walker, and John Kasich.

Read more:
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2016/02/22/hillary-clinton-is-backed-by-major-republican-donors/

[HooptieWagon]

1. Naturally. She's a Republican for all practical purposes.

Neo-liberal on the economy, neo-conservative on foreign policy...she's a republican. She just puts a smiley face sticker on a couple social issues to appear warm and fuzzy to single issue voters.

[area51]

3. +1

And if she wins the Democratic nom, we'll have two republican candidates to pick from: republican light and republican psycho.

[FreakinDJ]

12. DING DING DING: We have a WINNER Folks

[BreakfastClub]

9. Yes, she's not "pure." SMH nt

[HooptieWagon]

10. Yep. Toxic.

[TheLogicalSong]

2. Whatever it takes for Blue Team to win.

GO TEAM!

[cali]

4. Ugh. Rah rah. It's just a game

[Live and Learn]

6. Apparently it is to some. And they don't care if we all lose in the end. Sad. nt

[tecelote]

5. It's in her logo.

Two blue pillars. One for the liberal left, one for the blue dogs on the right. Hillary is the red arrow taking us even further right.

[DUbeornot2be]

8. I...

...like your take on that. And others...

Gracias!

Also in the land of tomorrow... Bernie-lillo county...!

[erlewyne]

11. Hillary is a blue dog

Reminds me of Gore and Lieberman.

The GOP always seems to be able to pick their opponent.

[Betty Karlson]

7. Birds of a feather stick to Goldwater girls. eom

[Vote2016]

13. it disheartens me that so many Clinton supporters fail to see that Hillary and Jeb are two

sides of the same coin.

How bad have things become when the Republicans have seen through the "let's double down on the status quo dynasty" by rejecting Jeb while so many Democrats are saying "status quo dynasty, count me in!"?

[bigwillq]

15. No more Bush. No more Clinton.

That's my motto. Lol

[dsc]

14. an interesting thing is missing, at least for your exerpt

and that is the percent given to each candidate. Here is what we do know, 60% of the money went to 3 of the 6 above her. Meaning they averaged 20% each. That leaves 40% for the rest. Let's assume for the sake of argument that the 14 beneath her combined for a total of 1%. That leaves 39% split among 4, with her getting less than the other 3. That means she got less than 10% vs 20% for the ones above her. Now this is making all assumptions that favor the writer of this piece and not Hillary. In short, the writer of this piece played fast and lose with the facts.

[kgnu_fan]

16. she is a republican in disguise....

[RiverLover]

17. Because she is RW. And she's influenced by money. A perfect fit.

Its the corruption. The purchase of our govt by those working for profit only, not people.

America is waking up to it. Finally! And that is why Trump is winning on the right with tons of media and Bernie is doing so well on the left with only negative media.

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/23/its_the_corruption_stupid_hillarys_too_compromised_to_see_what_donald_trump_understands/

Hillary embodies all that is corrupt within the system, the rigged game. There's no way she will win in the GE.

And she is RW anyways, so oh well. Let them keep throwing their money away on her, just like so many did on Jeb.

America is waking up.