So here is a big question of the day type thing.

So I am a fan of Mitt Romney on facebook.com. There is a recent post from the Mitt group that states, "Thanks to you and thousands of others, Scott Brown's money bomb yesterday was a giant success. Total raised: $1.3 million! With a week to go, he's one step closer to victory on Jan. 19th."

My question is this...

How does helping a person raise money equate with victory? How does raising $1.3 million get a candidate one step closer to winning?

Now I understand that a campaign needs money for things like TV and radio advertisements, to help the candidate go out and campaign and have room and board type stuff, money for gas and other necessities, and things like that. And I know that if you are campaigning you just can not work a full time job, unless you have a lot of time off so you need money for that. A candidate has to have another source of income besides a job, and that is where donations come in.

But how does more donations mean victory? And how does victory equate to success? Let me clarify, victory does not equal success, and money does not equal victory. Here is an example of what I mean, President Obama won the 2008 Presidential election, but his time in the Oval Office has been a huge failure in my eyes. In fact I don't think he has had much success at anything yet. lets taka look at some examples of what I mean.

1- One of the biggest failures right off the bat is his attempt to close Guantanamo Bay down. Guantanamo is where we have incarcerated suspected terrorists, or in Obama'ese, "enemy combatants". President Obama made bold statements about how he was going to have Guantanamo closed within the year (http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/12/obama.gitmo/index.html). This would have been a very bad thing in my opinion because, a) It makes our country less safe by allowing suspected terrorists to either be set free or moved onto American soil which makes our country more vulnerable, b) It places our troops in more danger. The more terrorists we allow to leave Guantanamo Bay the more terrorists are allowed to go back out and join the fight, c) It places unnecessary restrictions on our troops when they are detaining suspected terrorists. Now if the troops don't read the person they are detaining their rights, they risk the terrorist getting off on a technicality.

As far as I am concerned, either one of these is as big of a failure as the next, but that is what happens when you make campaign promises meant to appease everyone. Being an elected official means sometimes you have to do something because the people want it. You represent the people, not your own wants and wishes.

2- The health care bill. Something like 56% of Americans polled are against this bill, yet President Obama promised he would get it passed. Well they are getting it passed by conducting back room/ closed door deals. Pretty shameful how this whole thing is going down. people are so mad about this bill, yet the politicians in Washington feel some driving need to pass this piece of crap legislation! It isn't on the behalf of the people, the majority of American people want nothing to do with this bill, so why do the politicians feel like they have to drive forward right now with this bill. Because President Obama made a promise he would get it done, and he already has had many significant failures.

3- This next failure is related to the one above. President Obama promised over and over again on the campaign trail that these health care reform discussions would be completely open, transparent, and he would have C-SPAN cameras there. Well as everyone knows there have been no C-SPAN cameras showing anything, and Republicans have not been involved at all. The President's lies are also a huge failure.

4- No pork barrel spending in bills. Remember when President Oabam promised he was going line by line through each bill and he was going to cut out all the pork (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/512/go-line-line-over-earmarks-make-sure-money-being-s/)? Yet in the omnibus bill there were, well as a Fox News report claims, "The new $410 billion omnibus spending bill contains thousands of them. In fact, congressional officials are telling us about 9,000 to be exact." (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500844,00.html). This is another huge failure.

Bottom line, President Obama had all the funding, and his victory has been a big failure. So how does money equal victory?