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Bush visit mostly pricey, private fundraisers

WC | 1:20 p.m. May 27, 2008

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?

How does it feel? | 1:54 p.m. May 27, 2008

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

Mahershalalhashbaz | 2:10 p.m. May 27, 2008

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.

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Justin | 2:32 p.m. May 27, 2008

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.

oh,oh | 2:33 p.m. May 27, 2008

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

Bub | 2:36 p.m. May 27, 2008

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.

Anonymous | 2:39 p.m. May 27, 2008

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

McKenzie | 2:49 p.m. May 27, 2008

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

LIVE FREE OR DIE! | 2:53 p.m. May 27, 2008

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".

utarded | 2:53 p.m. May 27, 2008

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.

T-Rex | 3:11 p.m. May 27, 2008

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.

Hey... | 3:19 p.m. May 27, 2008

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

these guys will follow | 3:20 p.m. May 27, 2008

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!

Mills Levan | 3:43 p.m. May 27, 2008

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.

Jon B. Holbrook | 4:28 p.m. May 27, 2008

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.

shadow | 4:46 p.m. May 27, 2008

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.

gut-feeling | 4:55 p.m. May 27, 2008

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?

Baaaaaaaa | 5:09 p.m. May 27, 2008

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....

Poor Justin! | 5:11 p.m. May 27, 2008

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.

shrinking numbers | 5:43 p.m. May 27, 2008

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?

I love it! | 5:54 p.m. May 27, 2008

I love it!
Absolutely love it!
A 46-year old black guy named Obama comes from nowhere and draws 75,000 people to a rally and our GOP friends can't even fill an auditorium in the reddest of red states and must settle for somebody's home to their thing.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people.

Brother Chuck Schroeder | 6:21 p.m. May 27, 2008

I did hear that Howard Dean bought some 20 pairs of these tickets. Invitations for the evening reception put the price at $70,100 per couple to mingle with Bush. I guess he's changing over to a moderate now also. Than they can be "like three peas in one pod", Dean, McCain and Charlie Crist. Mitt, they are just using you is all. At lease Mitt is more of a Republican than the other three.

Anonymous | 6:30 p.m. May 27, 2008

Wouldn't you like to believe it Bro. Chuck.
The reality is Romney is out for himself as all today's GOP politicians are.

kevl | 6:30 p.m. May 27, 2008

So how many of Our tax dollars is this costing us all

Anonymous | 6:56 p.m. May 27, 2008

This President has gone from historic support after 9/11 to having to sneak into Iraq to having to sneak into his own fund raisers.

Funny how reality catches up with people no matter who they are.

Ken Baguley | 7:07 p.m. May 27, 2008

Rocky! Get Lost! Bush haters continue to hate...It's self destructive...Mitt hang in there...We want you as V.P.

Sorry | 8:11 p.m. May 27, 2008

There are voters that watched Fox News, The studied at the Limbaugh School of Advanced Conservative Studies; their solution for the world's problems was electing Bush.

You don't see why I find your logic questionable?

Brother Chuck Schroeder | 8:23 p.m. May 27, 2008

Your right there Anonymous - Romney is out for himself as all today's GOP politicians are and bleeding heart liberals and moderates to. EXAMPLE - for the past 30 plus years only 2 refineries was built, to refine crude oil, NO ONE on both sides ever wrote the words to BIG OIL to INVEST YOUR TRILLION DOLLAR quarterly profits into them. Oil now stands, waiting to be turned into fuel, and waits. Oil prices go up, everything else to, and all Congress does with new rules is toss powder-puff question's at BIG OIL, while they want us to be a walking ATM, and support their cause and party. What about us?. Oh I forgot, all they want from us is to put them back in the same do nothing seats, with the promise they'll ask BIG OIL next term that is if it's not put on the back burner again,in some committee. After being on this Planet for the past 60 years, I give up on most all of them. Funny, I had lunch with Jeb Bush and that was under $100 for 5 people in 2006. Any questions?.

Wow. | 10:12 p.m. May 27, 2008

Bush is a total idiot. He has ruined our government and surely should go down in history as the worst president our nation has ever seen. Clinton nearly got impeached for a few personal problems that he resolved (and might I point out JFK had the same issues), yet Bush can get away with what he did? The rest of the world can see how much Bush sucks, why can't we?

St. George | 7:23 a.m. May 28, 2008

If I were there, why don't you read

Good Read (Article on Stagflaton in Money Mag)
Yet as promising as these alternatives are, we have not been investing enough to bring them to fruition. While we squander hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq, the U.S. government spends a mere $3 billion or so per year on all its energy research - around 36 hours of Pentagon spending! Yet it will be the new technologies, deployed quickly and on a global scale, that offer the real keys to energy and food security, and the chances for sustained economic development globally. In the years ahead, technological development, with both public and private funding, must become a core part of our national economic and security arsenal.
Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University

Anonymous | 8:07 a.m. May 28, 2008

I'm Voting for anyone but the big stupid 3. Give me Chuck Baldwin, Ron Paul, or even Mr. Magoo would do better than those 3. Not getting my vote EVER. People in this state are sheeple. They need to learn and study the issues. UGH. SO FRUSTRATED!

Buck | 8:09 a.m. May 28, 2008

Obama gets millions in donations, mostly small amounts from millions of individuals, and McCain gets 70k per couple from a few people in Utah. Interesting. That should tell anyone the difference in who supports the candidates.

outsider | 8:56 a.m. May 28, 2008

Does anyone not find it odd that while Bush is in Utah raising funds for McCain, that the DN has not even posted the article about Scott McClellan? All the networks, including your beloved FOX, are covering this as the lead story. Maybe the DN is going to wait until Bush has left the state and McCain's coffers are replinished. I don't really expect that it would have any impact on donors. McClellan is going to be villified by "the true believers" anyway.

Catherine | 9:01 a.m. May 28, 2008

I find this article to be humerous.

Not enough takers for their hoity toity fundraisers. Yet Obama raises millions of dollars a month from average people giving small amounts.

Funny, funny, funny!

Not everyone in the state of Utah is as red as they all believe, and not everyone in Utah is a blind sheep.

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