Mitt Romney’s Campaign Raised A Pathetic $3-4 Million From People Not Named Mitt Romney

12:17 pm EST October 1st, 2007 | News | 13 Comments

Aides to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said last night he raised about $10 million in the third quarter and contributed $6 million to $7 million of his own money.

In the Republican field, he’s apparently been outraised in real donations – not personal loans – by Fred Thompson, with $8 million, and Giuliani, with something like $10-12 million (All of which is way less than the millions being raised by Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama).

UPDATE: Mitt Romney’s pet blogger Dean Barnett, typing from Hugh Hewitt’s lap, is very very upset that I interpreted the Post’s reporting to say that Romney’s total haul was $10 million and $6 out of it was his own cash. He does this in a mature way by calling me dumb, stupid, etc. None of this changes the fact that Romney’s campaign has been propped up by his personal fortune, or that in actual human being donations he is behind the national GOP frontrunners as well as the Democratic ones.

Topic: 2008 Election

« Republican Perversion Of Government: The Environment
Mel Martinez To Quit »

13 Responses to “Mitt Romney’s Campaign Raised A Pathetic $3-4 Million From People Not Named Mitt Romney”

cms says:

October 1, 2007 at 1:11 pm

No, I’m pretty sure you add the numbers together for his total take (i.e., he’ll report ~$15M, of which $5-6M will be from himself.
C.S.Strowbridge says:

October 1, 2007 at 6:17 pm

Even so, (and I think you are right), that means the top two earners on the republican field managed about the same as Obama or Clinton did alone.

However, I also heard his total was $12 million, which could mean Oliver is right in his math.

I guess we will have to wait a couple weeks to get the final numbers.
William Randolph says:

October 2, 2007 at 6:27 pm

Are you serious?

You have to be kidding me.

No one could possibly be this dumb.
CCMOTVRWC says:

October 2, 2007 at 6:46 pm

‘AND’ contributed…AND, get it yet??? Raised 10 mil AND contributed 6 to 7 mil.
I’d say you’re dumb as a mud fence but I wouldn’t want to offend any self respecting mud fences.
Ted G says:

October 2, 2007 at 7:40 pm

I’m confused did he raise $10 million with or without his lone?
thenakedemperor says:

October 2, 2007 at 7:42 pm

From Merriam Webster’s dictionary:

AND

Function : conjunction

1—used as a function word to indicate connection or addition especially of items within the same class or type ; used to join sentence elements of the same grammatical rank or function.

If you must write and opine, please know how to use the tools. Much like a carpenter who knows not the use or function of a hammer, lack of working knowledge is sure to yield a bad result.
Anon says:

October 2, 2007 at 7:48 pm

Okay, I get it now–this is NOT satire because moonbats are generally stumped by math and logic. That tricky “and” must have been too confusing. I suggest a new headline for the inevitable correction:

Dumb blogger posts pathetic blog entry and is ridiculed by people who are not dumb.
chris says:

October 2, 2007 at 8:17 pm

Dean Barnett is “very, very upset”? How in the world do you get that from his post?

He’s clearly pleased to point out how poor your analytical skills are, and what an unserious pundit you are.

Your problem wasn’t in how you “interpreted” the article. You can’t count. My seven year old could do that math. And she wouldn’t even consider to blame getting 10 plus 6 wrong as failing to “interpret” the answer.

All of which makes you a welcomed and stellar rep for the looney left.
mike says:

October 2, 2007 at 10:22 pm

Media Matters’ employee Oliver Willis has worked long and hard to earn the title “The Left’s Dumbest Blogger”. Lesser men might rest on their laurels having achieved universal recognition for such a dubious accomplishment, but not Ollie. Yesterday, he put up a post that bravely plumbed the depths of his own stupidity:

…

Perhaps we are in the presence of a comic genius who inserted the “do the math” as a sly bit of satire. Or perhaps not.

Exit question: Was this a simple arithmetic error or a simple reading comprehension error?

Bonus exit question: Does George Soros ever wonder, “Why do I have such schmucks on my payroll?”

Probably the reason he questions your intelligence, is because your phrase, “Like Kryptonite To Stupid”. That can only be said by someone who wants to be seen as smart, and so, is probably not very smart…
Bugz says:

October 3, 2007 at 10:27 am

Stupid is as stupid does, Ollie…
B. R. Luste says:

October 3, 2007 at 3:54 pm

Doesn’t seem as upset as he does smug. He is right, you should be a little more careful when you have a banner that reads “Like Kryptonite To Stupid.” It is a pretty stupid post.

I will confess that at first I thought the same thing as you, but I didn’t do a full length post on it and I don’t pose as a blogger.

You might have a little more intellectual credibility if you admitted your mistake, instead of trying to be snarky about it in the end.

When you are in a hole…stop digging.
B.R. Luste says:

October 3, 2007 at 3:58 pm

One other thing…kudos for having an open comment forum. Many bloggers don’t have the guts for it.
Ryan Hawkins says:

October 4, 2007 at 5:49 pm

…according to Oliver’s latest update – “None of this changes the fact that Romney’s campaign has been propped up by his personal fortune, or that in actual human being donations he is behind the national GOP frontrunners as well as the Democratic ones” Oliver, you still just don’t seem to comprehend.

Romney so far has raised $45 million from contributors…which is still ahead of even Rudy Giuliani’s $44 million AND ahead of all other GOP front runners. (The $17.5 million of Romney’s own personal contributions actually put’s Romney’s total at $62.5 million.) Hence – excluding Romney’s personal contributions, he is still ahead of all GOP candidates in fund raising.