The Tsunami Tuesday Commitment
THANK YOU so much for stepping up to contribute to Governor Romney’s campaign at this crucial time!
Today, I received a call from a close friend of Governor and Ann Romney who asked me to express gratitude on their behalf for your generosity. In the last three days, you have contributed over $8,000 to the campaign! Those contributions were in amounts from $15+. The commitment I made for the TSUNAMI TUESDAY fund is almost filled. Please help cap off the commitment today and make a contribution to the campaign. You are all doing so much at this important time to help Governor Romney. Please click this link to put us over the top — Don’t forget to type in the Source Code: ECA064 that slots your contribution to the commitment bucket:
No contribution is too small — Please contribute whatever you are able. And again, THANK YOU very much for all you are doing!
~ Vic
January 31st, 2008 at 9:39 am
I just read an article on web saying that Mitt is not going to advertise in any of the Super Tuesday Markets?
January 31st, 2008 at 10:29 am
The latest poll released on California has McCain at 32% to Romney at 28%. I think it would be a shame if he have up on California.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:53 am
Maybe GMR should run an add called “CHALLENGE” asking
for a debate ONE ON ONE.
McCain will either back out and look like a looser – or he won´t and will look like a looser anyway.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:11 am
Has an explanation been given for the lack of ads? That looks like concession. He needs to AT LEAST run ads in CA. AT LEAST.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:23 am
Yeah, this no Super Ads story is becoming viral this morning. This is more disheartening than anything. Since this is an effective concession, it would probably be better for him to just drop out and wait for 2012 (McCain is either one term or loses to Hillary/Obama–he won’t run for a second term at 76). Mitt, I love you, but this story is more disheartening than the Florida primary, particularly after that fine debate performance. If you’re going to effectively throw in the towel by advertising nowhere in the 22 states, then it’s probably better to just withdraw rather than give us all false hope that the campaign is continuing when in reality it is not. This decision by the campaign makes me angry–it is capitulation. Why not just go all the way. Face it, Mitt has given up. This story confirms it. Better for all of us if he just withdraws, says he fought the good fight, but that it’s lost. If he were campaigning as hard for Super Tuesday as he did for Floriday, I wouldn’t be saying all of this, but no television advertising while McCain gets all the free publicity? What’s the point of going on, then? Really? I’m confused.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:39 am
I’m not sure what’s going on, however, give it a day. It may be that Gov. Romney is weighing the (+’s and -’s) with respect to having to defend himself from out and out LIES. In short, politics is a dirty business, sometimes candidates get in the mud, his beliefs don’t support him going there, maybe he’s just tired of that one part of it? It may be he doesn’t want to get into the mud like Sen. McCain. Sen. McCain is absolutely filthy right now, no two ways around it….boats
*IF he does drop out or is leaning in that direction, I’ll agree, now is the time.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:40 am
We have maxed our contribution for the Primary for myself, my husband and our two voting age sons. We have contributed $3,000 to the General Fund - we have some max money left but can it be used to help Mitt now or does it go to a fund for the General election? Please advise.
Thank you
January 31st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I just read a new article on the web from L.A times that Mitt is not going dark he is doing major add buys in several super Tuesday States including California! This is great news!
January 31st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
There should be a post put up about his add buys this will motivate people to donate!
January 31st, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Romney to run ads in California
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to run a “significant” level of television ads in California and other states that vote Tuesday in essentially a national primary, aides said Thursday, signaling a willingness to aggressively try to derail Republican front-runner John McCain.
Since his defeat in Florida Tuesday, the former Massachusetts governor has been debating how much of an effort to make in the 21 states that hold primaries and caucuses next week. The campaign was spending the day hammering out its final strategy.
Romney is trying to get back on track after two straight losses to McCain — in South Carolina on Jan. 19 and more recently in the winner-take-all state of Florida. That victory gave McCain the advantage in the all-important delegate count as well as the momentum in the GOP race.
After seven contests, Romney is down narrowly — 83-59 — with 1,191 national convention delegates needed to secure the nomination and 1,023 up for grabs Tuesday. So, Romney has decided to try to cobble together wins in enough states Tuesday to topple McCain in the delegate count, or at least remain relevant.
California has 170 convention delegates; candidates are awarded three for each congressional district they win. The state is incredibly expensive to compete in but Romney aides argue that he can win some districts here. Final decisions on other states were pending.
In a debate Wednesday night in Simi Valley, Calif., Romney tried to cast himself as more conservative than McCain and argued that his rival’s record too frequently deviated from the party line — a preview, perhaps, of the advertising message in the coming days.
“There are a number of pieces of legislation where his views are out of the mainstream, at least in my view, of conservative Republican thought,” Romney said.
McCain shot back: “I’m proud of my conservative record.”
Romney’s advisers had given him several options, ranging from $1 million in ads to $7 million in ads for an expensive multistate effort. It was not immediately clear how much money Romney was willing to spend — or whether the multimillionaire would dip into his own bank account again. He already has poured at least $40 million into his presidential campaign.
His wealth is estimated at up to $250 million. The former venture capitalist has stated publicly that he and his wife have agreed on a personal spending cap, though they refuse to divulge the figure. The issue facing Romney was whether the additional spending could make the difference against McCain or amount to money wasted.
On Wednesday, Romney had indicated that he was not ready to commit to a costly campaign or television advertising in any of the Super Tuesday states. Instead, his plans called for campaigning in California and other primary states, while making organizational efforts primarily for caucus states.
That still holds, though Romney now will supplement his campaigning with advertising.
His travel schedule reflects his campaign targets — if not his advertising goals.
With his opportunity for scoring the nomination dwindling, Romney’s strategy calls for seeking votes in states with heavy concentrations of Romney’s fellow Mormons: California, Arizona, and Utah, seat of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Romney, trying to become the first Mormon elected president, will attend the funeral of the church President Gordon B. Hinckley on Saturday in Utah.
He will also campaign Friday in Colorado, followed by visits to Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri, key midwestern battlegrounds. In Missouri, a classic swing state, Romney enjoys the strong support of Gov. Matt Blunt.
Also on the tentative schedule were Tennessee and Georgia, Southern states where Romney has shown strength. Romney was likely to bypass delegate-rich New York and New Jersey after former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani decided to drop out of the race and support McCain.
Romney’s home state of Massachusetts also votes Tuesday. His campaign tentatively planned to receive the Super Tuesday returns there. If he were to fail, Boston would be the most likely sight of his campaign goodbye.
In contrast to Romney, McCain plans to rely largely on momentum and “free” news coverage that comes with it by holding rallies and news conferences in California and big winner-take-all delegates states, including New York and Illinois. McCain was picking up the endorsement of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday, an event sure to garner loads of publicity.
His aides say he would make a modest and targeted TV advertising push in some states.
With winner-take-all states his first priority, McCain’s tentative travel schedule calls for him to travel coast to coast for general-election style rallies in Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Renna, As far as I know, any contributions for the general election to Mitt will be refunded if he does not get the nomination. I stopped giving to the RNC 8 months ago and have increased my donation to Mitt. I will not give another penny to the RNC until I feel they really do represent my views.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:23 pm
The republicans are so split right now, there is no way they can win the general. Rush et al don’t want republicans to win with McCain at the helm, because they want to keep the party pure and free from the liberalism John McCain will bring to it. It’s time for republicans to take a stand and say no to John McCain, even if it means losing the general election. The media wants John McCain because they hate republicans. They want republicans to be like democrats, but it’s better to lose and regroup than to become like the dems. Come November we either vote dem, don’t vote, or vote third party. That’s the way to show resistance, then let the republicans re-evaluate their mission.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Yahoo. The ads are going up and we’re still in the game. I’m guessing that Romney needed a bit of time to analyse his ad strategy.
Vic, I made a contribution:)
I hope all of you will support Mitt by opening your wallets. Besides helping the campaign’s bottom line, I’m sure it’s a morale booster for Mitt who is in the line of fire constantly. He needs to see the support of each of us!!
January 31st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Hi Renna,
I helped out with a fundraising call day for Romney. The Romney campaign could accept general election funds as of January 1.
The general election funds are held aside until Romney wins the nomination. If Romney does not win the nomination, the general elections funds are returned to the donors. Even though Romney can not use the general election funds yet, he can still report the numbers and show that he has a high level of support.
January 31st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Everyone! ABC blew Mitt’s no-SuperTuesday- AD out of proportion. He’s still going to do it. Just not in all 21 states, and they won’t tell the ABC reporter which state they will do it. Check here: http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016821.php
January 31st, 2008 at 4:20 pm
ATTENTION
Miguel has an idea to start a website where people could sign a statement saying that if McCain is the party nominee they will not support him because he does not represent our conservative values. I think this will get a lot of chatter going on and the media may pick up the story and the message that McCain is to liberal would get out. The question is will this hurt Mitt Romney? Lets talk!
January 31st, 2008 at 5:40 pm
http://drdroo.livejournal.com/10620.html
Welp, I put in money. It’s the right thing to do I figure.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Romney NEEDS to press the immigration issue in California; it’s the first issue on everyone’s mind.
One idea: Call out McRino on his plan to have the “border governors” certify that the border is secure. Two points: (1) illegal immigration affects all states; leaving it to four governors is ignorant; and (2) the four governors include open-border democrat Gov. Bill Richardson who was running against McRino until recently, AND open-border democrat Gov. Janet Napolitano who is currently campaigning for Obama! But McRino wants to rely on them?!?!
The best option: Have the Border Patrol Union certify it. They’d know best, and they have been critical of the Bush-McCain amnesty since the beginning.
Suggest it, Mitt!
January 31st, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I thought that the speech given by President Thomas Whitmore (Bill Pullman) in the movie Independence Day would be appropriate. I’ve made some changes to fit us Romney supporters:
Good evening. In less than a week, we along with others Super Tuesday voters will join together. And we will be voting in the most important election in the history of mankind. “Mankind.” That word should have new meaning for all of us on February fifth. Republicans we can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that in less than a week it will be February fifth, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from John McCain. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win that day, the Fifth of February will no longer be known as Super Tuesday, but as the day the Republican Party declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate President Mitt Romney!