If Mitt Romney really understood anything about business (and he probably doesn't), he'd know that money is meaningless if your product sucks. Take the mobile app Color, for example, which secured a massive $41 million in startup funds before bellyflopping.
Well, I guess Mitt does know something about this. It was deals like this that made him his fortune.
But even besides the fact that money can't buy love, having an enormous amount of it in the hands of lunatic amateurs maybe actually be a problem.
Let me put it another way. Let's say you asked Mitt the businessman, "You're launching a new company, you have $200 million to spend on marketing, and your buddies, some of whom have absolutely no experience in your industry are vowing to spend two or three times that on their own independent marketing campaigns for your company, and you can't coordinate with them. Good thing or bad thing?"
Of course, one of those people is the genius Karl Rove. The man whom we would have long forgotten had it not been for an unfortunately designed ballot in Palm Beach, FL.
That's not to say the GOP billionaire factor isn't seriously dangerous for Obama. But it has enormous potential to blow up in their faces and become a major distraction for their side. These guys are boiling over with hysteria, and the temptation to go full-on wacko must be overwhelming for them. We're just getting a taste of that with this Joe Ricketts fellow, who nearly lit the match in a room full of fireworks.
Sooner or later, one of these guys is going to screw up, and in a big way. If we're lucky, Romney may spend the majority of his campaign cleaning up after his drunk polo partners.