Opinion: Go get $6.5 million from the ATM, will you please?

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This running for president business is expensive, even if you’re rich.

Mitt Romney has just reported loaning his own campaign another $6.5 million after a $2 million loan in the first quarter to kick off his advertising. Romney reported raising a total $14 million in other contributions in the second quarter, for a six-month total of $43.9 million from more than 80,000 donors including himself. All of it is primary money.

His cash on hand is $12 million.

Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani’s campaign reported raising $17 million in the second quarter in both primary and general election money and having a considerable $18 million-plus in cash on hand now with zero debt.

The New Yorker’s campaign did not report the number of donors, but said it doubled them from the first quarter and raised $2 million more. The Times’ Dan Morain has a complete story up now. Click here.

--Andrew Malcolm