Without Super-PAC’s the campaigns of Jim Gilmore, George Pataki, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, Rick Santorum and Chris Christie cannot exist. If those candidates had to rely on financial support from the electorate, they could never be in the race. They are only in the race to split votes and support Jeb Bush.
This essential and key element is what Donald Trump is now highlighting. But will the electorate see it? Will the media report on it?
Take away the Wall Street funded GOPe Super-PAC’s and their entire strategy to nominate Jeb Bush falls apart. This is McConnell and Donohue’s ‘Achilles heel‘.
Any campaign that has to rely on electoral support, actual or financial, will fail. That means the GOPe, to achieve their goal, have to construct campaigns that don’t rely on electoral support.
People have asked me how do we defeat the GOPe road map. Well, there’s your answer.
Drive home the message that candidates are not supported by people, but are in fact supported by Wall Street. Explain how Citizens United was a loss for our side. Wake up the base to the reality of what is going on.
Once the sunlight comes upon the Super-PAC’s, and the real intent of their candidacy is exposed via embarrassment; meaning, once a candidate has to actually be accountable for the support they don’t have, they will drop out.
. . . only in the sense that it did not abolish “campaign finance reform” root and branch.Why would I spout nonsense like that? Because I’m a First Amendment fundamentalist - and CFR does nothing about our actual problem, the “MSM.” The First Amendment stricture on abridging the freedom . . . of the press” directly rejects the idea that the government can prevent a printer from buying ink based on the content of the opinions he prints.
And unless you believe in a title of nobility or a priesthood, anyone - even a corporation like The New York Times - can be a printer. And can print explicit opinion in the editorial page, can slant the news on the front page, etc. Remember, anyone includes you and me, and - thanks to the tech of the PC and the Internet - publishing our opinions worldwide is within the practical reach of our wallets. You can even freeload on FR, if you’re a tightwad . . .
The fundamental MSM problem is that we were all taught in school the fatuous idea that journalism is objective. And, that is based ultimately on the fact that journalists don’t compete ideologically. They don’t do that, because they are all in the same organization - the AP. The AP is a monopoly, and deserves to be broken up, as such - rather than having its position bolstered by censorship of people who don’t make fatuous “objectivity” claims.