To do that, someone with a lot of bucks will have to finance a 50 state ballot run, to be used seriously only if Bush or Romney get the nomination—sort of a “break glass in case of fire” scenario. The emergency candidate could be someone like Sarah Palin, as it cannot be someone who ran in the primaries.
Not going to happen.
I’m simply not going to vote for someone who says he doesn’t need conservatives.
Jeb Bush doesn’t want my vote and I won’t be supporting him, period.
The only way to cut the power of the big money boys is to Move to Amend the Constitution to get rid of the insane concept that corporations are people and money is speech. Money talks and the people walk (away from the big money leadership). Here is an important quote from the above article regarding the budget agreement that conservatives will not be able to influence until the fall.
“Worse, there was a provision in the $1.1 trillion budget to erase previous campaign spending limits for corporations and wealthy individuals (we can thank McConnell for this one); now, the limits were raised from $32,400 per year to more than $777,000 per individual, per year. “That means individuals could give $1,555,200 per two-year election cycle and couples could give $3,110,400 in a cycle, according to several campaign finance groups who have studied the legislative language,” CNN reported.
So, not only is the GOP Establishment working with the establishment wing of the Democratic Party (which includes the president) to fund initiatives conservatives and constitutionalists oppose, they are also working to further diminish the influence of the American people – what little of it is left – on the political process. Both parties seem intent on outsourcing their campaign financing to the richest individuals and corporations, so they can completely ignore their bases (for Republicans, that includes the massive expansion of donor cash; for Democrats, that includes Obama’s signing of legislation earlier this year doing away with all taxpayer-public funding of political campaigns and conventions, tucked deep into unrelated legislation).”