Money Troubles in Denver: Don't worry who's winning we may not have a convention!!!

[elixir]

Looks like Howard better get busy.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/money-troubles-in-denver/

[scheming daemons]

1. Don't worry... once Hillary drops out, Obama will have enough left over to fund it....

....

[Craftsman]

6. Who said she is dropping out

Heck if she loses the nomination she may still not dropout after the November election!!!!!

[Texas Hill Country]

11. is that even allowed?

[JTFrog]

14. Why would he need her to drop out to do that? That could be a great idea for him actually if it

were allowed.

Somehow I think that there would be a conflict of interest because it would look pretty good on him if he funded it.

[Stephanie]

2. Maybe the Hillary donors who were going to buy her a Do-Over in MI can fund it.

Let them pay.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. People, donate to the DNC!!

:bounce:

[elixir]

8. Good post, actually a substantive response.

[bicentennial_baby]

10. I donated last week....I wish people could stop arguing for 5 minutes

and do what's right for the Party. Sigh.

:)

[dkf]

4. Where are all those Michigan donors?

[northzax]

13. as I recall, they were told that they weren't real democrats

and that they weren't needed.

[dkf]

17. Oh, so they took their marbles and went home then?

Oh well, so much for Hillary's great supporters.

[northzax]

19. well let me tell you something

given my personal experience on this board, being told every day that I am not a real democrat, that I am part of the problem, that I am a right wing freeper, that I am racist, that I am a troll, etc, it makes it real hard to want to get seriously behind the candidate whose supporters are saying all that. Will I vote for the Democratic nominee? of course.

will I spend every weekend pounding the pavement, manning phone banks, travelling to swing districts to help register voters and stuffing envelopes for Barack Obama? not a chance. After all, why would you want a racist, freeper, troll, fake democrat out there anyway?

I donated just over 300 hours to the 2004 general election, both local, state and federal elections, including 100 hours over election week (when I took vacation to travel). oh, and Kerry wasn't my preferred candidate then, either. I hope you have the time to fill that space with 'real democrats' because it will be tough for me to do that, knowing that I am a racist troll who isn't a real democrat.

[dkf]

20. You dropped in the "real democrats" thing, not me.

and I have never called anyone a "fake democrat" or whatever.

I thought your comment came out of left field myself.

[northzax]

21. go to GPD and watch democratic centrists called republicans

seriously. you may not, but there are legions who do. I particularly love being called a troll, since there are 9 people left on this board with a lower member number than I (last time I checked), and three of them own the place.

there are three threads on my front page alone talking about how Hillary is a right-wing neocon. so obviously, if she's the person I think best suited for the job, I must be a right-wing neocon myself, right?

[dkf]

22. I don't think being called a "fake democrat" or a "republican" is much of a slur anyway.

I'm really not into labels. I try to criticize behavior more than anything.

[Wickerman]

5. I'd have thought selling out to Fox would've done the trick

:eyes:

[northzax]

7. well, what do you think happens

when you have a leading candidate who's supporters hate and vilify the financial backbone of the Party?

[Fovea]

9. Perhaps that is why

so many have been screaming for the Dems to grow a spine.
The old one no longer supports Democratic ideals.

[northzax]

12. that may be so, but you can't have it both ways

you can't curse the moneymen and then complain when they don't write checks.

[Fovea]

18. I don't complain when the money men keep their `

checkbooks closed.

They are also keeping them closed for McCain.
And that is McCain's fault.

He wanted to take the high road, and bailed on public money, now there is concern that he has willing violated the very campaign financing law he helped write.

I think we need more public financing, less private money.
Money does not equal free speech, and it is a sign that SCOTUS is whack that they could uphold such an idea.

[leftofcool]

15. Attention: Michigan and Florida Dems needed to donate to the DNC

[DURHAM D]

16. No problem -

The DNC should do direct mail requests to Republicans, Independents and unaffiliated in the open primary and caucus states. After all, the SDs will be voting to protect the interests of those non-Dems at the convention. Why shouldn't they help pay for the convention?

Also, the CEO of the party - Leah Daughtry (a Pentecostal minister) should make an appeal to the church people to pony up. She is against gay marriage so I guess more and more gays and lesbians have stopped funding the DNC - I know I finally have.