Thank you Christian Science Monitor for jumping on this so quickly.
Best way to go forward is throw out facts…..
Romney, picked up more than $30 million SuperPAC contributions in 2011, mainly from financial industry executives and hedge-fund managers. (These are the guys who crashed the economy by selling junk as derivatives as well as jacked your $1.40 a gallon gasoline price up to $4.50 in 2008. Most people don’t really like them very much.)
Mr. Gingrich, raised $2.08 million through 2011, nearly half from the daughter and son-in-law of Las Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson. In January, after the FEC’s reporting window, Mr. Adelson and his wife, Miriam, gave Winning Our Future two $5 million checks – and the capacity to fight on in South Carolina and Florida’s high-cost media markets. (Translated: the Mafia is buying a candidate)….
The Red White and Blue Fund, backing former Sen. Rick Santorum, raised $764,000 in 2011, backed mainly by mutual fund manager Foster Friess ($331,000). (Without this one man, the campaign would have folded months ago)…..
Make US Great Again, a super PAC supporting Texas Gov. Rick Perry, raised $5.3 million, mainly from energy company executives. After he dropped out, one donor, Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons gave $500,000 to Gingrich’s SuperPAC.
GOP hopeful Ron Paul is backed by three super PACs – Endorse Liberty Inc., Santa Rita Super PAC, and Revolution PAC – which have spent $3.7 million supporting his campaign. Venture capitalist Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal, is the leading donor at $900,000.
Super PACs supporting President Obama, together, raised $3.1 million in the second half of 2011. By contrast, super PACs attacking the president, such as American Crossroads and FreedomWorks for America, report raising $20.3 million over the same period.
Translated: Obama’s supporters don’t have money; Big money wants him out… (And no wonder, he is the last thing protecting us from them)…
But, if we factor in the way things used to be, before all restrictions on campaign giving were lifted, in a straight race for individual campaign contributions, limited by law to $2,500 per donor per election, Mr. Obama vastly outpaces the GOP field. The Obama campaign reports raising nearly $130 million in 2011, compared with $56.9 million raised by the Romney campaign, the top GOP fundraiser.
So, you see, WE the People, have done our part, but are getting outspent…. by at best count… 10 people…..
But a wildcard in the 2012 race is how outside super PACs could tip that balance by giving anti-Obama groups access to unlimited individual and corporate contributions.
As Florida shown, SuperPAC’s can decide the elecion…
Translated, this year our president is being picked by a fight between ten people, each who has a special interest in getting “their” man into that leadership position…..
Thanks to the Citizens-United decision by the Supreme Court, we just actually lost our democracy. It might as well be warlords fighting among themselves to be King……
I’m calling on every citizen to ignore both TV and ads this time around, and read the damn papers instead……
It is our last chance.
kavips 
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February 3, 2012 at 6:02 am
anonymous
The obnoxious and greedy.
Rmoney says, “I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine.”
I’m not concerned about them doing poorly. I’m concerned about them taking over the country.
Has Rmoney ever gone without anything? Has his heat, electric ever been turned off? His home – lost? Has he made a family meal out of canned soup? Juggled bills? Driven a clunker? Has he worried about the education of his children? Worried about an unsafe ‘neighborhood;’ his kids going outside of their house, the violence, living conditions, joblessness, rising maintenance costs, the lawlessness of poverty or any list of things that keep the people down? Does Rmoney think a system of social denial is the American way, as he pretends to republican voters, the middle class are ‘the people’ worthy of ‘his consideration.’
In his elitist, socio-economic world, Rmoney makes $60,000 a DAY. Many poor Americans earn one-third or less of Rmoney’s daily take – in a YEAR and struggle everyday. Their lifestyles are unimaginable to Rmoney just as the poor to middle class can’t imagine the lifestyles of the powerful and connected.
Republicans are very opposed to rising the bottom wage, so the poorest worker can’t earn an extra dollar an hour. Republican businessmen cry, it might take a dollar out of my pocket! Rmoney is richly oblivious enough to add insult to injury, stating, ‘I’m not concerned about the very poor’ ” Who needs to give the poor any hope, acknowledge their plight, when Rmoney et al know republican voters are dumb enough to be influenced by a small circle of Rmoney’s wealthy supporters, superpac air time and mailings, to get the ultra rich, the ultimate power. Mr. 14% can’t be bothered with voicing concern for the voiceless.
The super rich run the government and the country and derive the most benefit therefrom. The poor to Rmoney are just some poverty, sub group. So let’s give the poor deferments for educations and jobs, and draft the ultra rich warlords.. Pay them minimum wage, because the rich don’t need the money, Return the lack of concern, the poor don’t need to protect the life styles of the powerfully rich and obnoxiously greedy. Start the draft from the 1% wealthiest on down.
Republicans would like to deny the poor like climate change. The 1% deny climate change, so they cash in on it’s back // republicans ignore the poor, so they cash in their backs.
Obama’s mistake was, he reached out to republicans, the Party of 1%, since they figured out how to ‘own’ an election. But Obama’s onto them. Republican voters need to realize, they are being sold the 1% bill of goods, of/by/for the 1%. The only way to save the country and the world as we know it, is vote every republican out of public office and work for the best interest of/by/for the people.