The Buying of the Nomination...

In the age of Citizens United.  There has been so much oblivious nonsense uttered by our mainstream press (and many liberal blogs too) about Romney's supposed weak performance, as he squeaks by with two or three percent wins, or essential ties, in primary after primary.  What our unintrospective journalists seem to not have figured out is that Romney is not winning primaries, he is buying them- and when you buy things, you pay the lowest price you can. 

Now that our corrupt Supreme Court has licensed the rich to spend as much as they want to sway elections, Romney has adopted the rich man's strategy:  No matter if the voters don't like him, as long as he can make them like the other guys a little bit less.  And thus, a campaign that depends totally on spending just enough on negative ads to give him a bare victory.  No need to pay for a resounding win when a squeaker accomplishes the same thing, and increases his backers' return on investment. 

This is the new reality of Republican politics.  It is going to be a horrible spectacle to see it played out in the general election.

Comments

Anonymous said…
This seems only a slight variant on the political process since primary elections became the norm. How is it that I find myself longing for the back room negotiations and brokered deals on political conventions prior to the 1960's? We seemed to end up with actual leaders in those bygone days.
March 19, 2012 at 5:03 AM
Anonymous said…
is this he left's new strategy to go after the "enemy dujour",because i seems all the left wing blogs have the same story.
Looks like you all get the same memos and then run with them.

Quote of the day-

"Midas is to gold as Obama is to Red Ink"
March 19, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Green Eagle said…
Anonymous,

First of all, "all the left wing blogs" do not have this story. I've read quite a few left wing blogs today, and in fact, I have not seen, either today, or any other day, this particular point made.


Second, anonymous, not only are you a liar, you are a very bad one. Lying isn't really that hard (at least if you are a right winger) so you should be pretty ashamed of your lack of ability.
March 19, 2012 at 2:45 PM
cardinal44 said…
Republican's run massive deficits to fund wars and tax breaks for the rich and then blame the "red ink" on the poor sucker trying to right their wrongs and deny spending on schools, roads and bridges because there's such a big deficit. Next up? War with Iran, of course.
March 19, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Green Eagle said…
Wrecking things when they are in power, and then doing nothing but blame Democrats for the disasters they have created- pretty much the only strategy Republicans have had since 1920 or so.
March 19, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

It's Okay, Never Mind

Image
The woman in this picture, equipped with the weapons and ammunition shown, was found outside a National guard base. She is apparently a big Glenn Beck fan, and believed that the base was a FEMA concentration camp. Think she's the only one out there? You just know this sort of thing is not going to end well.
Read more

Wingnut Wrapup

Image
 Well, I haven't done one of these in a while, but I thought it might be fun to see what the wingnuts are "thinking" lately, so let's just dive in: And the big news: "Breaking! Trump Just Truthed He's "The Real Commander-In-Chief" Well, he said it.  It must be true.  He "truthed" it! You know it wouldn't take long for this sort of "reporting" to happen: "Maui Directed Energy Weapon Assault, Like 9/11, Paradise, CA., Malibu and Boulder Fires" Of course, it can't be the result of global warming.  It must be the deep state attacking Hawaii for some reason.  That makes much more sense.  Here's a small selection of headlines from the dozens and dozens of other articles about this alleged treachery: "New Patriot Underground: Hawaiian Wildfire: Possible DEW Attack" Maui: "An Orchestrated Apocalypse" "Maui Hawaii Has DUMBs Underground 8 to 10 Sex Trafficking Tunnels We Just Lasered Them Out!
Read more

Hamas

  Of ocurse I am going to take the opportunity to talk about the Hamas attack on Israel.   First, I'd like to talk about my background, or baggage, regarding the country.   I have lived in Israel, some years ago.   This was not for religious reasons; I spent several months there working on a movie.   During pre-production, weeks of location scouting and shooting the movie, I was all over the country, and spent a fair amount of time in the West Bank, where we also shot.   This included a lot of places that normal tourists would not see, including predominantly Arab areas such as East Jerusalem, the Arab quarter of the old city, Ramla and the southern part of Jaffa, which is predominantly Arab.   It also included heavily Orthodox areas like Mea Shearim.   I dealt with Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and Bedouins.     Here are a few things I believe I learned there:   First of all, the Palestinians I knew were perfectly normal people with the same interest in living a safe, secure
Read more