Democracy for Vancouver

I guess 9/11 hasn’t been quite as lucrative as Rudy hoped - at least not in terms of political contributions:

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP)   About a dozen senior campaign staffers for Rudy Giuliani are forgoing their January paychecks, a sign of possible money trouble for the Republican presidential candidate and last year’s national front-runner.
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The former New York mayor has yet to win a contest and is counting on a victory in delegate-rich Florida on Jan. 29 to prove his candidacy is viable heading into the multistate contests slated for Feb. 5, where he believes he can prevail in states such as California and Illinois.
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It’s also a costly strategy: Florida and states that follow have some of the most expensive media markets in the country. And with so many states voting in such a short time period, candidates can do little else but rely on paid media — and news coverage — to get out their messages.

Republican strategists estimate that it will cost roughly $35 million to run one week of heavy levels of ads in the two dozen states that hold contests on Feb. 5.

It does a person good, seeing Republicans spend millions to try to move out of 6th or 7th place…

Doesn’t the pro-business party know not to throw good money after bad?