Your TDS is getting boring.
Trump is self funding. His comments are reasonable in terms of monies effect on a candidate.
K street is why DC never changes only gets worse.
That someone is open to change does not mean they are advocating for a particular position
CU was not about K Street.......so you’re really out of your league here.
Besides, your appeal that we should only have super wealthy people as President is charming in kind of a third world statist sort of way. Bet you didn’t even realize you stepped into THAT particular steaming pile.
Your TDS is getting boring. Trump is self funding. His comments are reasonable in terms of monies effect on a candidate. K street is why DC never changes only gets worse. That someone is open to change does not mean they are advocating for a particular positionPlease... This Trump "is self funding" crap is embarrassing.
Do you know how much the DEM's and associated PAC's spent during the last general? Can you say Billions? Trump doesn't have the liquidity to keep up with that. Do you really think that Trump will a huge chunk of his personal fortune into this?
Trump is skating right now because of all the earned media he's getting. To the media he's a ratings boon. And the bonus for the media is that they get to pick our (most unlikely to win in their minds) candidate again. If Trump wins the nomination, the MSM will turn on so fast that it will even make the heads of Romney and McCain spin.
Trump - if he gets there - won't be self financing in the general. That is if he's serious about winning.
With money he made by greasing the palms of corrupt politicians.
If that is true he should divest all of his companies outside his family now, as some politician could put the squeeze on one of his hotels in a heartbeat, tying it up with investigations and negative publicity, halting construction, any number of things. Just can't have those influences on a candidate.
Yes, they are. It is also true that Ronald Reagan was the best president we have had in at least a century - and he could not have become POTUS under modern "reform" law.The fundamental flaw of "Campaign Finance Reform" is that it reifies the status of wire service journalism (not to put too fine a point on it, the Associated Press and its membership) as "the press." No Sale.
We have freedom of the press only if we have free entry into the free fire zone of free, independent actors spending their own money to propagate their own opinions. To believe anything else is to fall for the "objective journalist" con.
It is perfectly legitimate, even laudable, for a journalist to try to be objective. It is even legitimate for a journalist to say that he is trying to be objective (if he is). But for a journalist to claim actually to be objective is to admit that he is not even trying to be objective. For any effort in the direction of objectivity must begin with honestly trying to identify one's own motives and incentives, and trying to see how those could influence one's judgement.
If you say that you actually are objective, you have just revealed that you have not even begun to try. And that conundrum is not escaped by joining a mutual admiration society wherein you need not claim objectivity for yourself so long as you claim objectivity for everyone else - secure in the knowledge that they will reciprocate the favor.
But what is the motive of the journalist? Plainly, the journalist does not do things, he only announces the results of what others did. Theodore Roosevelt famously asserted that"It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds . . .Being, in that formulation, "the critic," journalists inherently tend to reject that claim, and to imply the opposite. They do not want to be openly partisan (blowing their "objectivity" cover), but IMHO the blunt assertion of that opposite premise is articulated by Elizabeth Warren: "You didn't build that."The upshot, and the intention, of campaign finance "reform" legislation is that while socialists may freely exploit propaganda organs, all others are to shut up.