Matt Fong quote to the contrary notwithsanding, there’s another way to interpret this Washington Post report on the many big-dollar GOP voters who haven’t yet opened their wallets for a particular candidate:
Now it’s true that probably there are some long-time Republicans who are fed up with the war in Iraq and believe a Democratic president actually would do anything differently there. But isn’t it equally possible that a lot of big-money donors aren’t writing checks because they have no idea of who will be the GOP nominee? Because a donor figures that since this is a wide-open, multicandidate race, if they back one guy and another guy turns out to be president, then that donor’s chances of fulfilling a long-held dream of becoming ambassador to Djibouti will go unfulfilled? I suspect that once the Republican party chooses a nominee, a lot of money will start flowing his way. Whether it will be enough to close the gap between him and the Democratic nominee is another question.
