The winning bid
Meg Whitman just won the Republican primary for governor of California. She spent more than $71 million of her own money on the campaign, and more than $88 million overall. Or about $194 for every vote she got.
Had she taken a stack of twenties down to skid row, I’m sure she could have done even better.
June 9th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Okay Lee, I look to you for guidance in these questions: Are these shrill T-baggers just a noisy flash in the pan, or a harbinger of coming doom?
June 9th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
I think it’s more complicated than that. Many of my friends and associates think that the Tea Party people will destroy the Republican party from within. I think that as a movement, their shelf life will be short. In the meantime, one way or another, the majority of voters feel unrepresented — decline to state is now the largest (and fastest-growing) party, and a lot of people who do support a party do so grudgingly. I’m writing this response from New Jersey, where everyone I’ve seen on this trip — all my relatives, plus old friends — are furious at the new (Republican) governor. But did they really feel better represented by the previous governor, who came to them via Goldman Sachs? Not really.
June 10th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
They just love being called Tea Baggers.
August 10th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Perhaps it’s another example of people being misrepresented. They don’t like the direction the country is headed in, & their elected leadership is doing nothing to help and are only acting in their own self-interest. I think it’s unusual in that we don’t usually see this from mainstream conservatives. I like it. To paraphrase Jack Nicholson, “what this party needs is a good enema!”