Revenge of Citizens United - Concerns are mounting that huge checks in the GOP primary will hurt...

[arcane1]

Concerns are mounting that huge checks in the GOP primary will hurt the party's chances of taking the White House.

Republicans could barely contain their glee when the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision cleared the way for unlimited spending in political campaigns.

But now — headed into a crowded presidential primary that promises to be longer, nastier and more expensive as a result of the ruling — some are having buyers’ remorse.

Concerns are mounting among top donors and party elites that an influx of huge checks into the GOP primary will hurt the party’s chances of retaking the White House. Long-shot candidates propped up by super PACs and other big-money groups will be able to linger for months throwing damaging barbs at establishment favorites who offer a better chance of victory, the thinking goes.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/revenge-of-citizens-united-120115.html#ixzz3fz2BLzTU



While I have no pity for anyone who felt "glee" over Citizens United, I'm glad to see some discontent on the other side. With bipartisan support, this may be the first and last billion-dollar election

[sufrommich]

1. "With bipartisan support, this may be the first and last billion-dollar election"

That would be a beautiful thing, I don't really care why it happens as long as it happens.

[arcane1]

4. And it MUST happen!!

[London Lover Man]

9. And the CU candidates get defeated by anti-CU candidate by the name of Bernie Sanders

Clinton is using CU to her advantage, but is also mismanaging her campaign.

Bernie is doing just fine, and showing an example of what a candidate not using SuperPACs to prove a point and will easily get elected.

[cascadiance]

2. But we just need to make sure that in rolling it back we destroy "corporate personhood"

... as the invalid judicist activist stare decisis notion (set by a court clerk's head note) that has put so many bad court rulings in place for Korporate Amerika!

That could be the one good thing of the push back that Citizen's United might get is the opportunity to throw this crap out at the same time. If we don't do it now, it might be harder to get a constitutional amendment or some other movement in government to do it later.

[arcane1]

3. "If we don't do it now" indeed!!!

[restorefreedom]

5. can someone please pass the kleenex?

i just feel so bad for the republicans....i just....


(heaping sobs)....

[FSogol]

6. Need a good example? Jindal managed to raise $580k. Then his superpac of unknown supporters gave

him $8.6 million.

That's money down a rathole.

[arcane1]

8. Jeb Bush is relying on them rather heavily too:

Without that sweet Super-PAC money, Sanders would be out-raising every repub candidate.

[London Lover Man]

7. If Republicans are so concerned about CU.... then they should have no problem signing on to Bernie's

anti-CU constitutional amendment and quickly get it passed and passed around the state legislature for passage before the next presidential election in 2020?

[jeepers]

11. I am going to blame this on Bernie

Had Senator Sanders agreed to take pac and big donor money like every other candidate out there we would be playing on a more level field. Instead, Senator Sanders insists on running an issue oriented and principled campaign refusing to take big money and has upset everything.

But it is not all Bernies fault. True his refusal to be bought has the bosses worried, but that groundswell of support that is following him everywhere is telling citizens united that it can go suck plutocratic butt. (often their own.)

Is this how your candidate plans on changing Washington?

Chalk one up for Berni

[Agschmid]

10. I have NO pity for this...

Kicked!

[leftynyc]

12. So that would be the second

Frankenstein that has hurt the right this season. First trump and now citizens united. Couldn't happen to nicer folks.

[frylock]

13. Reap the whirlwind, mofos!

[doxyluv13]

14. This kind of already happened to Mitt Romney

If Newt Gingrich hadn't had the Adelson money to stay in the race while losing badly, Mitt could have pivoted toward the center months earlier, giving voters months to forget the scariest parts of the primary campaign. I don't think Mitt would have won under any circumstances.