little in this race rather than rick santorum who they see as somebody who really can t raiseç a lot of money, who remains rather obscure. if he finishes third, so what. he won t be able to raise the millions of dollars he would need right away because he doesn t have the connections, he doesn t have the ground game. he didn t even bother to try to submit signatures to get on the ballot in virginia, for example. they cite that as an example of the fact that they don t think he can go national. at least that s what they were saying to me. john, you wrote on new york magazine romney has had his share of unearned good fortune and though the lack of affection for him in his party s base might yet come back to bite him, at the moment, he appears to be on the verge of proving an eternal verity of politics, better to be lucky than loved. how has mitt romney been lucky? well, lawrence, you just pointed out what the show s
little in this race rather than rick santorum who they see as somebody who really can t raise a lot of money, who remains rather obscure. if he finishes third, so what. he won t be able to raise the millions of dollars he would need right away because he doesn t have the connections, he doesn t have the ground game. he didn t even bother to try to submit signatures to get on the ballot in virginia, for example. they cite that as an example of the fact that they don t think he can go national. at least that s what they were saying to me. john, you wrote on new york ofma unearned good fortune and though the lack of affection for him in his party s base might yet come back to bite him, at the moment, he appears to be on the verge of proving an eternal verity of politics, better to be lucky than loved. how has mitt romney been lucky? well, lawrence, you just