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JPK

(651 posts)
Thu Nov 8, 2012, 08:04 AM Nov 2012

Has American Crossroads become sort of like Bain C?

By that I mean a corporation that produces nothing but accepts large amounts of cash from wealthy donors and the skims some cash, maybe a lot of cash off the top, and pays its operatives huge salaries. They were so awash with cash I wonder how much of that cash found its way into off shore accounts for turd blossom and his buddies unbeknown to the big donors?

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Has American Crossroads become sort of like Bain C? (Original Post) JPK Nov 2012 OP
The Opposite Of Bain... KharmaTrain Nov 2012 #1
Let's see; they spent 100K on ads CanonRay Nov 2012 #2

KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
1. The Opposite Of Bain...
Thu Nov 8, 2012, 08:09 AM
Nov 2012

Bain took profitable, marketable companies...gutting all profits for themselves and then made big money off fees associated leveraging the company into debt. It's meant to make the most money without spending any. GPS and Willard's campaign was the opposite. Those who "invested" saw their money squandered on paying double what the Obama campaign did for advertising time...threw big money at consultants and became a welfare program for ex-dubya losers. In the end, billions were invested with ZERO return.

No doubt Rover made a nice penny off of the millions he got his hands on but the last thing he wanted was to kill the golden goose. He was hoping for enough victories last night to justify them keeping the money rolling into 2014 and 16. We'll see how good a salesperson Rover is and how gullible the donors are.

CanonRay

(14,103 posts)
2. Let's see; they spent 100K on ads
Thu Nov 8, 2012, 09:18 AM
Nov 2012

but took in somewhere around 325K.....KKKarl knows his arithmatic.

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