Super PAC backing Rick Perry to spend $55 million to beat rivals, documents reveal

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: NBC News

The new super PAC backing Rick Perry has drawn up plans to spend $55 million as part of an ambitious campaign strategy aimed at blowing away the Texas governor's rivals in early primary states and securing him the Republican nomination by next spring, according to internal committee documents obtained by NBC News.

The documents underscore the central role that such super PACs — or super political action committees unconstrained by any limits on how much they can collect from wealthy donors and corporations — will play in the 2012 presidential election.

They also show that the strategists behind the new Perry super PAC, led by a longtime Perry confidant and backed with infusions of cash from major Perry donors, are preparing to mount a full service political operation — complete with TV advertising, direct mail and social media outreach.

If it realizes its goals, the super PAC — which calls itself "Make Us Great Again" — will likely eclipse the financial operations of Perry's official presidential campaign committee, according to some Republican consultants.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44402386/ns/politics-decision_2012/

[Skink]

1. Advertising is not going to help.

[SkyDaddy7]

5. Not going to help? So, you think Perry...

Has no chance of getting the GOP Nomination?

If so, why?

...You are aware that Republicans & probably a majority of Americans are obsessed with Right Wing Science denying Christian Authoritarians, right?

[Rosie1223]

2. Is this Colbert's SuperPac?

:rofl:

[bongbong]

3. Perry the uber-liar & secessionist

Perry is even more of an America-hater than chimp (ex-president cheney's spokesman) was. If he gets anywhere electoral-wise, it will be the true sign that America is no longer circling the drain....

It has disappeared, on its way to the sewage treatment plant.

[asjr]

4. The Political Mafia always has the big bucks.

[RickFromMN]

6. I assume Romney has super PACs too. Anyone for a poll how expensive the Republican Primary will be?

55 million here. Romney will have to match it or more...any guesses? I think more than 55 million.
Romney lacks the rabid base Perry has. Romney has a lot of work to catch up and overtake Perry.

There won't be much campaign donations left over for the rest of the field.

That could be just the Republican Primary assuming Romney and Perry fight it out.

How much will Perry's super PACs spend on the general election?

We, and our democracy, are going to be drowned in an ocean of money. The oligarchs have one.
We will be inundated by television political ads, mass mailings, and phone calls.
We won't be able to hear ourselves think. Our voices will be drowned out by the thunderous noise.

When will elections become so expensive even the rich can't afford them?

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Now how can he legally cooridinate this Super Pac with his campaign?

Answer: He can't. Even under Citizens United this is illegal.