But we DO have to pay attention to the unpleasant business of fund-raising. It's an unfortunate fact of American political life that with enough advertising, the Republicans could convince their followers to jump off a cliff, and even convince them to pay for their trip to the cliff our of their own pockets. Voting for Republicans is a slower suicide that is a lot easier sell, and 30 million American voters will vote R for no other reason than Fox "News" told them to. Denny Hastert was a Democrat all this time, after all, don't ya know? Foxsuckers now know it. If Fox told them 2+2=5, 30 million Americans would immediately assume their pocket calculators were defective.
In late July of 2012, the eventual winner told me to my face that he could overcome a gap of $1 billion for him and $1.25 billion for his opponent. He did not think he could overcome a gap of $1 billion for him and $2 billion for his opponent. Willard did not have $2 billion, and our guy did win. If the Republicans smell blood this time, then this time, thanks to their inside men, Roberts and Alito, I think they'll find their $2 billion. So far, considering the poor class of candidates they have offered so far, I don't think they'll blow their $2 billion on the presidential race, and again concentrate on Congress and Statehouses instead. Should they somehow come up with a credible candidate for the White House, I think $2 billion would be their starting ante, and not a ceiling.
We'll probably never raise $2 billion. Not Hillary, not Bernie, not O'Malley, not Webb, not Chaffee, nobody. That's just not the nature of our beast. We can make up the gap with a decent message and some party unity, once the candidate is decided. If we can't manage that, I think the 2016 presidential race will be a classic lesson in how to lose a sure thing.
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