From the Washington Post:
No office space has yet been rented. No committee has been formed. No official announcement date has been locked down. But by sometime next month, the president’s team is likely to be a functioning, legal entity with a plan.
That should send a message to potential Republican candidates, who have spent the winter trying to convince themselves that they can wait and wait and perhaps wait some more before they get moving. Obama’s team believes otherwise. They know what time and effort are required to build a robust organization capable of winning a general election – and how important the work done this year will be…
…Start with money. Obama raised about $750 million in his 2008 campaign, an astounding amount. There has been talk, still speculative, that he might be the first $1 billion candidate in 2012.
While grass-roots money will continue to be significant, one of the Obama team’s first priorities is to build up its stable of major donors and fundraisers…
Make no mistake about it, fellow Republicans, the organization Obama’s handlers will put together will astound the world. They will fund raise like mad – and it won’t matter if illegal fund raising is in the mix: the Obama people figure if their man wins, then there won’t even be an investigation in to illegal fund raising…and if their man loses, they are counting on us GOPers to let bygones by bygones. They will dig up every ounce of dirt they can find an all potential GOP Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate…and probably on likely campaign aids, as well. They will (once again, quite illegally…but, who cares?) coordinate their effort with a host of left wing interest groups and, very likely, with the MSM (don’t let any MSM sniping at Obama fool you – come 2012, the lapdog MSM will be just that). They will lie, cheat and steal – they will smear and spread fear and hatred. They are going to come after us relentlessly and without the slightest sense of honor or decency.
So, get ready for it – and, also, remember that they are going to spend the bags of money and become completely gutter politicians because they have no ideas, and their man Obama is an empty suit. The left can’t win clean; they know it and so are determined to win it dirty. They will appear far more fearsome than they are, and MSM spin will make it always appear that things are going better for Obama (and worse for the GOP) than the actual facts indicate. Our job is to withstand it, not lose heart and just keep hammering right back at them.
It is crucial that we rank-and-file types do our part – because our man (or woman) will be outspent at least two to one and simply won’t have the resources to put together a duplicate of the Obama machine. They hope to win it by fooling and/or buying the people – we must win it by earning the trust of the people…but we can’t do that if we’re all wringing our hands and getting all nervous because a tracking poll isn’t going our way, or an Obama ad buy is getting a lot of MSM attention. Concentrate in 2012 on what matters – telling the truth, and convincing people to vote. If we do that, we’ll win, no matter what.
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