Romney Is His Own Biggest Donor

[Hepburn]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney once said financing his own campaign would be a "nightmare." Writing checks, he said this week, is "painful." It doesn't seem to be stopping him.

Romney is his presidential campaign's most generous supporter, lending $17.5 million from his personal fortune so far. His Republican rivals are bracing themselves for him to do it again. And again.

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The former Massachusetts governor has two more shots at testing what his money can do to supplement his campaign's finances and help him win the GOP nomination. The first is during the 90 days left before the early presidential contests of Iowa and New Hampshire. If he survives those, he can spend again in the last weeks of January before the make-or-break primaries in Florida, New York, California, New Jersey.

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This year, Romney's personal contributions have been increasing as his fundraising has been declining. In the first quarter, he lent his campaign $2 million. In the next three months, he put in $6.85 million. This summer, he contributed $8.5 million. Meanwhile, his donations dropped from $21 million in the first three months to $10 million this past quarter.

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I had NO clue that Romney had that much money. Where the hell did all of it come from???

[Xipe Totec]

1. I'm impressed

I didn't know he could reach that far behind him.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. He inherited a fortune, he invested it & thus.

Hope he pisses it away on this vanity campaign, the dirty bastard.

[CK_John]

3. Mitt has a lot more where that came from, he founded Bain Capital, which is buying Clear Channel. nt

[Hepburn]

4. Shit.....

....looks like the $17-million is a drop in the bucket to Herr Mitzer. I looked up Bain Capital and is seems that this is what is at the bais of, get this, his $350-million fortune!

Shit! At $17-million, he is not even spending 10% of what he has on his campaign.

[Grandrose]

5. Keep on spending Romney.............

Will Rogers added political humor with his statement that "A fool and his money are soon parted because he has more dollars than sense".:dunce:

[rusty quoin]

6. That Romney family is just giving and giving so much to our country.