Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (169039)	8/14/2011 11:06:21 AM
From: Sam	Respond to of 544181

Romney worth between $190m and $250m, campaign says August 13, 2011\| By Matt Viser, Globe Staff DES MOINES - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is worth between $190 million and $250 million, his campaign said yesterday after filing a personal financial disclosure statement with the Federal Election Commission. That dollar figure would likely make him the wealthiest candidate in the 2012 White House race, far and away eclipsing President Obama. His only possible GOP rival is former governor Jon Huntsman of Utah, who has yet to release his disclosure form and is among the heirs to the Huntsman Corp. fortune. Romney’s disclosure form provides the most detailed look yet at the former venture capitalist’s finances during the past four years; it shows his net worth essentially unchanged over that time. His campaign provided no details about movement within that range.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (169039)	8/14/2011 11:19:00 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544181

If Perry can make this a real horse race between him and Romney - who knows what the outcome? Well, my prediction is Romney will take it. The ticket will be Romney-Rubio. Selecting Rubio will be like Bob Dole picking Jack Kemp as his VP. It will generate enthusiasm among the Teapers, who are obviously cool to Romney. It didn't work for Dole. But it may well work for Romney, unhappily. If he is elected with Rubio, he will get a Republican Congress to work with, and we will get another look at how "Getting govt off the backs of the people" works. A disaster even larger than the one in 2007-08 will ensue.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (169039)	8/14/2011 12:55:18 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544181

I really don't see any reason to make much of this Saturday's Iowa polling. At best, it's a measure of how well some very right wing Republican presidential candidates can organize their followers. The media is the problem here. They make far too much of it so that it turns effects the ability of the losers, in this case Pawlenty, to raise money. Even though the polling itself is a waste.