warren pease  (1000+ posts)      | Sun Jun-08-08 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
| 44. I love it when republicans start sniveling about lack of money... |  |
 | ...It's usually followed by the sounds of a democratic victory party. But the bigger picture is the obscene sums of money required to be considered a viable presidential candidate. It's been out of hand since Buckley vs. Valeo in 1976, and now this whining harpy writes that Obama may end up with around $300 million in total contributions for the whole election cycle. That's just amazing, and the really sick thing is that most of it will go to the same TV networks that miss no opportunity to disrespect dems and praise the GOP. I just hope to hell they don't spend a dime with Fux or CNN or ABC -- not that the others are much better, but these three have really set the standard for bottom feeding. So there's good news and bad. On the good side, there's the fact that GOPers are openly sniveling over a lack of money. This has to be a first; just the idea of republicans running short on cash is enough to heal the sick, raise the dead and eliminate the heartbreak of psoriasis for all time. There's good old fashioned payback, too, and I think it's long overdue. One of the sweetest sights in the universe is the giant crater formed by smug and sanctimonious lard-asses as they come crashing back to earth after their 15 minutes in the limelight. Better yet if the object reentering earth's atmosphere happens to look like KKKarl Rove. So they're stuck with a ridiculous candidate who actually wants to position himself as the only one of the lot who will build on the Bush administration's legacy of decency and compassion at home, and its nearly perfect record of foreign policy triumphs. Now there's a winning strategy if I ever saw one. If the RNC didn't have the cell phone numbers of some of the finest professional election thieves around, along with the loyalty of the corporate swineherds who run the companies that build the machines that rig our privatized elections, they'd have no possibility of winning anything above alderman in a one-horse, two-bar, three-pickup town somewhere in the blistering heat of the great southwestern desert. Finally, because McCain won't come within $200 million of Obama's war chest, we'll see much less of this tumorous, beady eyed lying old bastard trying to fob off his persona of the week on voters who, in general, would rather swallow swords than have anything to do with electing this guy. On the bad news side, the kind of money that's apparently necessary to fund a modern presidential campaign is insane. It's nice that Obama's going for individual donors and staying away from PACs and lobbyists. But if this keeps up, it'll be impossible to exclude any potential sources of money and, as usual, the corporatocracy will outspend the peasantry by a million to one. The simple truth is that any relatively solvent Wall St. investment firm, for example, can afford to buy as many senators and members of the House as necessary to secure a favorable outcome on key pieces of legislation. This is particularly true when XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. On the other hand, when I get through with the monthly debt-slave routine, it's tough to afford even a memento like a new plastic comb to help legitimize Senator Widestance's long vigils in airport mens rooms from sea to shining sea. I can usually afford a couple of meals out, a box of strawberry sorbet popsicles and a case of tuna and shrimp gluten-free, non-toxic, poison-free, certified non-lethal gourmet food for the cats -- who are so exceptionally cool that they actually deserve gourmet food. I'll probably have to develop a taste for it myself if the Bush economic miracle continues to worry my usual clients about spending money on freelancers, causing my business to turn into an unwilling but de facto non-profit corporation. So absent public financing of campaigns at all levels -- president to county coroner -- the financial arms race will continue to spiral out of control. Only the super-rich or incredibly well-connected members of the middle-class will have any chance to run for office, much less win. So why even bother with elections? Let's just total up the dollars and whoever has the most money on "election day" wins. No expensive election infrastructure, no suppressing turnout, no hanging chads, no "intent of the voter," no Diebold, ES&S or Sequoia, no vote flipping, voter caging, voter roll purging, no under-supply of machines in dem precincts... All that's in the past. Best of all, it turns an expensive undertaking into that most treasured of American institutions: a profit center. By the time the various federal, state and local jurisdictions get through slicing off their pieces of the action, the campaign will likely be in the red. The roads will have a couple hundred fewer potholes, though, so it all works out in the end. wp |
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| Ghost Dog (1000+ posts) | Mon Jun-09-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #44 |
| 47. This deserves getting copied to my scratchpad, |
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| warren pease (1000+ posts) | Mon Jun-09-08 05:11 PM Response to Reply #47 |
| 48. Sure, please distribute at will... | |
| But please do me a favor and delete this damn sentence before re-posting: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX It's in the 10th paragraph from the top, counting from that one-line blurb at the beginning. It doesn't really need to be there and I forget why I put it in. It's not at all relevant to the previous sentence. Plus, it's got two separate tpyoes and I f-ing HATE tpyoes. Typos, too. Thanks. I really appreciate it. wp |
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| Ghost Dog (1000+ posts) | Mon Jun-09-08 11:28 PM Response to Reply #48 |
| 49. Errr, copied and understood, warren. |
| You've got the link and the |
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| LiberalPersona (393 posts) | Mon Jun-09-08 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
| 45. I like where this is going |
 | It really seems that we have many tactical advantages over the republicans this time around. |
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