The Romney campaign and the Democrats both get creative on fundraising

[thatcrazycajun]

Well, it seems GOP presidential nomination candidate, former Massachusetts governor and recovering liberal Mitt Romney has asked his supporters to start auctioning off their old stuff to raise money for his campaign. (Given that his chief rival for the nomination has just scored the endorsement of a key leader of the very faction Romney's been so assiduously courting lately [see analysis here], one can understand Mitt starting to get just a tad antsy about his chances and wanting to replenish the ol' coffers.)

When the folks at the Democratic National Committee (currently run by Mitt's old colleague and fellow New Englander Howard Dean) got wind of this, they figured it would be fun to conduct a similar auction...of Romney's old, discarded liberal positions on issues (or at least, some items symbolizing same). The results are described in this NewsVine.com story (with links provided). Sounds to me like a great way to kill two turkeys with the proverbial single stone: raise some more cash to fight the GOP and point up Romney's blatant pandering to the wingnut right of his party.

Comments

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Now THIS is fun!

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Referring to Mitt Romney as a New Englander makes me grit my teeth.

I was born in Michigan, spent a purgatory growing up in Massachusetts, and finally moved back to Michigan to go to college. (Now I'm exiled to Ohio, but that's another thing.)

I used to comfort myself with the thought that at least Massachusetts passed the ERA (Equal Rights for women Amendment) as a state law, and that both MA and Michigan eschewed the death penalty (and all its risks & onus of being mistaken.)
Mitt's dad George Romney may have been a Republican when he governed Michigan, but the Michigan Republican politicians (including several of my father's family) back then were so moderate in their conservativism that they'd be denigrated as "liberals" today. (Make that, "branded" as liberals.)

Every time I'd hear about Mitt and his latest right-wing escapades in the Bay State, I'd grimly wish we could send him back where he belonged -- and then realized that if we did, he wouldn't belong there either, and would still be capable of wreaking havok.