[ConservativeDude]

I’m not sure that corporations exercising their constitutional rights is quite the same thing as “crony capitalism”. Most likely, these corporations, if they win, will try to push an agenda of deregulation, tort reform, lower corporate taxes....that sort of thing, ie, the sort of thing that creates real jobs, and real economic growth.

I wouldn’t think that any conservative capitalist would be too worried about that agenda.

[ConservativeDude]

Note that they expect the nomination to be complete by March 24.

That is less than 7 full months from today.

I know that most of the posters on this thread think that it is a done deal that Palin is going to stomp everyone (and if you are skeptical of that, then you are a naive fool, or worse...a liberal).

Palin might well run. She might even do ok.

But in any event, it is going to be a short campaign because this is going to be over pretty fast. Once those primaries start hitting in the New Year, it’s going to be over soon. So the idea that any other candidate has months and months to consider, plan, and roll out a campaign is simply not living in the real world (at least not the real world of the GOP primary....).

It’s all going to be over in about 200 days.

[Just mythoughts]

I’m not sure that corporations exercising their constitutional rights is quite the same thing as “crony capitalism”. Most likely, these corporations, if they win, will try to push an agenda of deregulation, tort reform, lower corporate taxes....that sort of thing, ie, the sort of thing that creates real jobs, and real economic growth. I wouldn’t think that any conservative capitalist would be too worried about that agenda.

Sarah did not require of them one thin dime to state she wanted to abolish 'corporate taxes'... We really cannot itch about the political system if we continue to play the games that give some animals more equality than the rest. AND what good is Perry's word now if less than a year ago he declared publicly he was not going to run for the office of president.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I wouldn’t think that any conservative capitalist would be too worried about that agenda.

I'm beginning to think the conservatives are being taken over by populists, who rail against business and think "corporate capitalism" is a bad thing.

I've never seen conservatives so up in arms about people spending money to support their candidates.

I remember not long ago when we were all CHEERING the Citizen's United court decision, and attacking Obama for denigrating the court at his state of the union address. Now it looks like some conservatives support Obama's attack on that decision, and believe that unlimited expenditures should be made illegal somehow.

[cradle of freedom]

Aren’t a lot of big donors also big government contractors?