Hillary may have gotten a couple positive marks from last night's match down in Austin, but the negative stories continue to flow like a broken hydrant on a hot summer day. These things keep flooding the wires as things get worse and worse for her failing campaign. After the story about the $5 million loan everyone had questions about her money situation. Why was she broke? What happened? How could the "most prolific fundraiser ever" have financial woes?
This is how:
Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants collected about $5 million in January, a month of crucial expenses and tough fund-raising.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s latest campaign finance report, published Wednesday night, appeared even to her most stalwart supporters and donors to be a road map of her political and management failings. Several of them, echoing political analysts, expressed concerns that Mrs. Clinton’s spending priorities amounted to costly errors in judgment that have hamstrung her competitiveness against Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.
“We didn’t raise all of this money to keep paying consultants who have pursued basically the wrong strategy for a year now,” said a prominent New York donor. “So much about her campaign needs to change — but it may be too late.”
If she can't keep her finances straight on the campaign, how do we expect her to do so for the country? I feel really bad for her contributors who unwittingly sent their hard earned dollars to staying in nice hotels and paying consultants $15 million in January alone. I would feel much, much worse if that kind of flagrant expenditures became continued with the next administration.
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