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Money ~ we have this secret program to go after the very rich ~ mostly for the ease of raising campaign funds from them ~ the rich do, after all, have a lot of money.

When we do that we end up buying into their special view that the world has two classes ~

(1) Themselves ~ and their money, and

(2) The broad masses ~ against whom they need to be protected ~ which leads directly to their belief that the broad masses should be kept happy with bribes by the government.

It's an anti-democratic sort of attitude, but there it is. You heard snippets of it oozing out of the Romney campaign, and from the lips of guys currently wealthy ~ O'Reilly for example, then there was Hannity, some wealthy book writers, investors, and, I'm sure in his private moments with his candidates, the guy with the casinos ~ not that he has such attitudes, but that's what you get from folks brought up by rich Democrats.

I don't advocate doing a French townsmen sort of thing when they'd face an English army at the gates in the Hundred Years war ~ (they'd round up the richest 20 men or so and send them out to the English to be punished), but we really do have to be clear in dealing with the rich that WE DO NOT GIVE UP OUR PRINCIPLES so don't even try it. The campaign will proceed with or without them, but it's gotta' be our campaign ~ not theirs. They want advantageous tax policies, they've gotta' go along to get along, or it's back to the Democrat scullies.