“Blame it on the voters if a senate seat can be bought.”
Yes and no. I know people who work for Bill McCollum, who is running for the GOP nomination for governor of Florida. According to people I know and trust, who have known Bill for years, he’s totally honest and a genuine conservative. But he’s running against Rick Scott, a billionaire. Bill McCollum raised 4 million dollars. Rick Scott put aside $300 million. Three-hundred million, incidentally, is the exact amount that McCollum proved Rick Scott got from his frauds against the government. McCollum, as attorney general, shut down Rick Scott’s Medicaid/Medicare operation, but Scott has gone free as he was just the company president and unaware of any wrongdoing.
I talk to my sixty-five year old sister who is a savvy, intelligent voter. She’s watching the commercials and she believes Rick Scott is what he says he is and, because of the advertising blitz, that Bill McCollum is what Rick Scott says he is. We live in a media driven culture. We rely on the honesty and integrity of the media to balance out the candidate’s advantages in money. As we know, the media has its own agenda, which happens to correspond with the Prius driving, COEXIST, Birkenstock wearing hippies who have no kids, but six expensive dogs and a bumper sticker reading “It’s a Choice!”
It turns out that Rick Scott is a spectacularly bad candidate. His closet is so full of bloody skeletons that he has to lean against it 24/7 to keep it from springing open. As soon as Scott becomes the GOP candidate, the media will kick him away from the closet door and standby as the skeletons come tumbling out; cataloging each one. But, for now, they say nothing; hoping for McCollum to lose so that then Scott will lose to a Democrat.
If you have an honest candidate, like McCollum, he isn’t going to attract the millions in donations to fight a billionaire like Scott. The reason is simple. People who donate millions expect something for those millions. An honest man isn’t going to give that something to them and they know it. A dishonest man, though, never, never has enough money. Why is it you think the Clintons are worth 100 million dollars?
"“Blame it on the voters if a senate seat can be bought.”"
In response you show at length that he is right while saying that he is wrong. This does not make any sense.
Nor does the following:
"I talk to my sixty-five year old sister who is a savvy, intelligent voter. She’s watching the commercials and she believes Rick Scott is what he says he is and, because of the advertising blitz, "
No offense, but you call someone who "believes" what commercials say "a savvy, intelligent voter?"
For advertising budgets to matter, commercials must work. If they do, you can blame the moronic, indifferent, self-sentered voters who are unwilling to spend a few minutes a day on learning the facts, analyzing a situation, and arriving on a well-considered choice among the candidates.
Believe it or not, but your sister has made a considered choice according to her preferences. Some people like the candidate's platform and others like good looks, or the ability to "relate" to the American people. Your sister, like so many others, prefers the loudest candidate. Don't blame the system: that is her Preference.
“Why is it you think the Clintons are worth 100 million dollars?”
The voters.