Last week, Mother Jones reported that Mike Huckabee used his PAC to funnel more than $400,000 to his family. This week, Politico's Ken Vogel gives us a story about scammy conservative PACs that make thousands of dollars from home with just one weird trick.
why on earth would we want to stop the considiots base from dropping their money down these black-hole dry wells?
Do you WANT that other 90% of the monies going into real campaigns, real issue ads instead - where they might be used to productive effect for those candidates?
let them go on pissing their diminishing pensdion dollars away on theirt fantasies of The Goob Doctor magically healing UhMuhrKa through shrewd and timely application of one of his tradermark bent-brain double-clueless half-slogans or of Holy Father Rick Santorum ascending dead-saint like to Throne of Purity from which he shall fatwah forever against abortion, sluttery, sluts and slutty abortion sluts (and drugs (and unruly Nie-Blanks))
Seriously, stomach-turning and cringe-inducing as this particular Long Con may feel to us when we consider the dynamics of swindling the fear-ridden bewildred resentfuls of the aging white consie base out of their few remainign discretionary-spending dollars - tactically isn't it better to have them toss those wrinkled, stained, sweat-socked Lincolns on this new Bonfire of the (Conservative) Vanities?
Let them keep funding the GOP Clown-Parade. Let Doc Clueless, Frothy-the-Snowjobman Santorum, Hucklebeery Fink, Donald Dump and all the rest dance and sing and pose in their g;orious invisible-to-all-but-them Emperors' New Campaign Clothes till the cows (and votes) come home. Let the great adventure Bad-Branding the GOP run and run and run at great and unproductive (and coutner-productive) expense. Let them comntinue to draw the worst elements, worst aspects, worst ideas, proposals and positions of the GOP out into the open - all in an endless laughter- then yawn- then aggravation-inducing steel cage death-match scrum. Think how these fools will draw whoever the final GOP nominee more and more towards untenable positions in order the re-capture the fringiest elemtnts of the GOP base - thus drawing him/her further and firther away from that general middle wherein lie the majority of potential swing votes in the general election.
so much, so very much better than if these dollars were applied honestly and potentially effectively to the forwasrding of a rational, possibly winning GOP general campaign, yes?
<i>Erick Erickson is <strike>HORRIFIED</strike> HORRIBLE, you guys!</i>
Just had to fix that. </i></i>
An entire category all her own.
Only redistribution if you take from people who have a lot and give it to people who don&#039;t. The other way around is free enterprise.
IRSghazigate!!!!!
Everyone knows that lottery tickets are just a scam to get the Little Guy to subsidize Big Education!
Corporations are the only people bright enough to avoid these PACs.
Or you could have read about it right here on Wokette. I&#039;ve been posting on that topic for the past couple of years.
Wait, are hookers and blow deductible? Asking for a friend.
He&#039;s a terrible role model for fat old white guys too.
why on earth would we want to stop the considiots base from dropping their money down these black-hole dry wells?
Do you WANT that other 90% of the monies going into real campaigns, real issue ads instead - where they might be used to productive effect for those candidates?
let them go on pissing their diminishing pensdion dollars away on theirt fantasies of The Goob Doctor magically healing UhMuhrKa through shrewd and timely application of one of his tradermark bent-brain double-clueless half-slogans or of Holy Father Rick Santorum ascending dead-saint like to Throne of Purity from which he shall fatwah forever against abortion, sluttery, sluts and slutty abortion sluts (and drugs (and unruly Nie-Blanks))
Seriously, stomach-turning and cringe-inducing as this particular Long Con may feel to us when we consider the dynamics of swindling the fear-ridden bewildred resentfuls of the aging white consie base out of their few remainign discretionary-spending dollars - tactically isn't it better to have them toss those wrinkled, stained, sweat-socked Lincolns on this new Bonfire of the (Conservative) Vanities?
Let them keep funding the GOP Clown-Parade. Let Doc Clueless, Frothy-the-Snowjobman Santorum, Hucklebeery Fink, Donald Dump and all the rest dance and sing and pose in their g;orious invisible-to-all-but-them Emperors' New Campaign Clothes till the cows (and votes) come home. Let the great adventure Bad-Branding the GOP run and run and run at great and unproductive (and coutner-productive) expense. Let them comntinue to draw the worst elements, worst aspects, worst ideas, proposals and positions of the GOP out into the open - all in an endless laughter- then yawn- then aggravation-inducing steel cage death-match scrum. Think how these fools will draw whoever the final GOP nominee more and more towards untenable positions in order the re-capture the fringiest elemtnts of the GOP base - thus drawing him/her further and firther away from that general middle wherein lie the majority of potential swing votes in the general election.
so much, so very much better than if these dollars were applied honestly and potentially effectively to the forwasrding of a rational, possibly winning GOP general campaign, yes?
Well these are people that have too much money...
Spend 1% on ads, and use the tagline &quot;Vote for this guy, or don&#039;t, whatever, I got mine!&quot;
<i>Mike Huckabee used his PAC to funnel more than $400,000 to his family.</i>
Most of it being spent on Subway foot long sammiches.
Tea Party Pacs: The Opiate of the Rube Masses (after Hydrocodone)
A retrograde regressive tax.
Shorter: Pandering to the gullible is easy, but it has consequences.