I pointed this out before-one of the key elements of Teabag strategy, if it can be called that, is based on a numbers game. Getting all of their folks out-who really don’t represent a majority of Americans-and keeping the rest of us at home. America has one of the most miserable voting percentages in the free world. It was what happened in Delaware-and in New York. And it will happen elsewhere if the “silent majority” does not stand up to this stupidity once and for all.
Plus-thanks to the Citizens United decision, they have access to an almost unlimited pool of resources. The result has been a five-fold increase in independent expenditures from the previous midterm elections in 2006 and a disclosure rate less than 50% for independent expenditures including a funding source. This has made following the trail of money in politics this year exceedingly difficult.
Its clear though, that the money is being spent and lots of corporate money is being “laundered”-witness the flow of foreign money into the hands of the American Chamber of Commerce.
“Well, the Democrats did the same thing-what about George Soros?”
What about him? He’s being far outclassed by companies-who are using the resources of their shareholders, many of whom are invested via mutual funds for purposes that are anything but “businesslike”. Does not matter which party does it-its not right. However please note that Republican donations are seven times those of Democratic ones:
Republican Third Party Groups — $43,664,661
Democratic Third Party Groups — $6,658,236
Colorado — Dems: $1.1 million / GOP: $7.6 million
Washington — Dems: $1.5 million / GOP: $4.2 million
Missouri — Dems: $794k / GOP: $7.2 million
Kentucky — Dems: $47k / GOP: $1.7 million
The reasonable man has to get off his ass this year and vote.
Borrowing a line from my Candian Counterpart,
“The selfish and stupid voters are largely to blame for that, but no one’s going out of their way to tell them what’s going to be necessary to educate them on what needs to be done, either.
If America’s going to go the way of the Soviet Union, it may as well have cute girls who can’t masturbate or balance a checkbook at the helm as it happens. If nothing else, it will make for great TV.”