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Bush visit mostly pricey, private fundraisers

Wow....if there is one place a Bush fundraiser for McCain would work it'd be Utah. I wonder if Utahn's realize their blind allegiance to their Republican ways lead them to be fully 100
5 used by the party for money. How does it feel?

It feels like they're trying to raise funds, which is exactly what a fund raising visit is for.

I think we feel like we don't want to support McCain. I think we are just undecided still. We know we don't like McCain much (although he's a likeable guy-we just don't like his politics) but at the same time we probably do want him to beat Obama. We're just not willing to donate to someone we don't especially want to win. What can we say. I think McCain ought to look to the states who did vote for him in the primaries. Like Arizona. Time for them to pony up. They chose him, not us. That's all.

Are you kidding Mahershalalhashbaz we will vote for him in the masses. We won't care what he stands for. What he wants to do. We will find out that he is against Gay Marriage and Against Abortion and we will vote for him, we all will, Utahn's will vote for McCain just like we voted for Bush just like we vote for hatch. We all select Republican just because its the right thing to do.

we're in trouble ,,democrats will bust our bubble!

At Least Maybe People Will Start To Beleave What Sort Of People Are Running For The White House? They Sure Arent For The Working Class People .Wake Up People Before Weve Been Sold Out.

I might go if they paid me $50,000 to go and listen to the boorish lies.

I would love to go see Pres. Bush. I just wouldn't want anymore money to go to John McCain!

That's right Justin.
Vote for McCain just like you voted for Bush.
Just because it's "the right thing to do".
Who care's that we are losing personal freedoms, weakened our economy almost beyond repair, and have become a target for hate among the rest of the planet.
It was "the right thing to do".
Not to mention that gas prices have gone up 400% and Bush's Oil buddies have been posting record earnings, since he got elected.
Vote for his replacment, McClone, I mean McCain, because "it's the right thing to do".

It's pretty sad OUR president isn't coming to this state to see the average Utahn, but to rake in the $ for his party. Guess there's not enough time for W to meet with those of us who make less than $1 million a year.

I for one am glad that the rigors of running the country aren't so cumbersome so that the President can get away to do a little fund raising. I know, they all do it, Republican and Democrat. Of course 3% of the Senate isn't even pretending to do the job they were elected to do. (I'm looking at you Senators Clinton, McCain and Obama.) But it's just pathetic. No wonder our country is int the toilet. I don't care for any of the Senators but would gladly vote for the first one to resign from the Senate while they run for President.

$70.000.00 is pocket change, how come I'm not included?.....NOT....Ridiculous...

the bush, just like the pied piper, only thing is his lies prededed him long ago as in his father and brother who ran the silverado scam and walked free...ask your grandma!

McCain's people moved the SLC event from the Grand America for the same reason they moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center: Not enough people were willing to pony up for the priviledge of spending a few minutes in the presence of Mitt (please pick me for VP) Romney. And you can bet they cancelled the Bush dinner for the same basic reason - not enough takers. And now the candidate himself is staying away. McCain's moribund campaign organization has failed to capitalize on the current Democrat fiasco and apparently can't even put together a decent fundraiser.

I cannot support Senator John McCain at this time. His policies are too much like the liberal policies of the Democrats. His "Cap And Trade" speech shows that he is a member of the cult of climate change. I see such a policy would further restrict energy production and make the United States more dependent on foreign sources of energy. Foreign sources that are hostile to the United States. If Senator McCain wants my support, he will have to disavow environmental extremism and work towards a policy of energy independence for the United States within the coming decade. Senator McCain associates himself with the well-healed with the Republican Party. They are not affected by the current ecomomic crisis like the middle-class, the working poor or those on fixed incomes. Who ,in those groups that I just mentioned, can afford to go to one of these fundraisers? The Republicans are out of touch with middle America. Republicans need to distinquish themselves from the Democrats with innovative ideas and policies that will return to basic Constitutional principles and the rule of law. The Neo-Con and liberal-lite policies of the current Republican party will have to be rejected or lose big in November.

McCain is getting the campaign rolling. The surrogates are talking and castigating. Normal campaign swing.

But without the fuel, without the cash, things just kind of slowooooooo down.... so he his first picking the easy fruit: Utah. It will be worth a couple million: people paying up to get face time later if he wins. Bush lets them pay up for now face time, McCain is later face time.

Romney? He is the dessert. He will attract the money and the photo ops. He has to look good, smile, smile, smile. McCain can't pick him for vp because McCain needs to carry the south. And Mitt can't carry it. Senator Lindsey will get the vp nod. Not too old, not too young; just right!!!

The shadow knows.

Why do you suppose it is that nowadays if I even SEE George W. Bush on TV - I get a queasy feeling in my stomach?

Amazing that the GOP has to come to Utah now to raise its money. Only here does the majority still support Bush and his war....

Justin writes "We all select Republican just because its the right thing to do." Yes, the right wing thing to do, just not the correct and moral thing to do for what is best for America.

I wonder what kind of message do the Republicans receive when they realize that 75,000 people attended a rally for Obama and the fundraiser for the GOP has now been downscaled from a large Little America event to somebody's home in Arlington Heights?