On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:30 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with your main point. Most of the clowns in the GOP Primary are > not really trying to run for President. Some (like Bernie on the Dem side) > genuinely want to raise points of principle that otherwise might get > ignored. Most though are promoting themselves (I am most familiar with Ben > Carson, who has zero chance of getting the nomination, and knows it, but > allows himself to be used by the GOP to give themselves some diversity cred > to hike up his own book sales and speaking fees). Rubio of course is just > running for the Vice President Nom (a race he probably already has locked > up). As I say, I think Trump is probably just trying to get cheap (at this > point) PR and brand enhancement. I don't think we will ever see him dig too > deeply into his own money, or borrow much against his own capital. > > NPR's point was that most prudent business people (not sure if that > description applies to Trump) would never put their own assets in any form > on the line for a presidential election unless winning was a much more > certain proposition than it is likely to be for Trump. >
When it comes to self-financing, I think campaign financing scales differently for president than it does for other offices, even senator or governor. A multimillionaire can run a self financed campaign for one of those positions without immediately raising suspicions about how he will get the money back. For president, though, we are talking over a billion dollars and the electorate has to wonder if the candidate is just willing to throw that money away, and what that says about his judgment, or if he plans to recoup the outlay through graft with federal contracts or some form of influence peddling. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
