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Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 | 2 a.m.
At the private air terminal at Logan Airport in Boston early Wednesday, men in unwrinkled suits sank into plush leather chairs as they waited to board Gulfstream jets, trading consolations over Mitt Romney’s loss the day before. “All I can say is the American people have spoken,” said Kenneth Langone, the founder of the Home Depot and one of Romney’s top fundraisers, briskly plucking off his hat and settling into a couch. The biggest single donor in political history, casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, mingled with other Romney backers at a postelection breakfast, fresh off a large gamble gone bad: Of ...
Wow...
Just...wow.
On the one hand, it warms the cockles of my heart to know how much money was wasted by these democracy-threatening PAC groups on the 2012 elections.
On the other hand, it is sick, sick, SICK that individuals would find it not only appropriate, but indeed a NECESSARY PART OF DOING BUSINESS to contribute gross amounts of COLD, HARD CASH to getting their 'buddies' elected.
It is twisted, people.
adelson spent a lot of money on romney and other republicans all over the usa and i dont think any of them won .money that could have been used for better things
Think about how all those millions could have affected the national debt! For a party so worried about it they just wasted a ton of money. What a spin from Rove-without all that money the race wouldn't have been so competitive...almost won is supposed to make these guys feel better?
I am grateful our system can't be completely bought-now if we can just get our political system to work towards a middle ground!
Would be interesting to know how much Karl Rove put in his pocket at the end of all of this..
Couldn't happen to a more deserving group.
Karl Rove got it wrong.
Dick Morris got it wrong.
Foxnews got it wrong.
The message and the numbers were wrong from the start. The biggest disseminator of wrong information is,...Foxnews.
Foxnews and company continue to feed the lie to their viewers each day, each week and monthly using selected polls. Even the Republican candidates actually believed they would win the White House. Now, Foxnews and company are blaming the Sandy storm for their lost and saying the Obama campaign suppressed the vote. Actually, Karl Rove said it, and everyone on Foxnews repeats it, and this becomes their new reality. Sick isn't it!
Big donors like Sheldon Alderson and the Koch Brothers now know they were "had" by Karl Rove and others who supplies numbers saying the race was close, but the race was never close.
The featured polling used on Foxnews and others, Gallup and Rasmussen, both ranked 24th out of 28 of the major polls.
Living in a bubble has the consequences of losing 303 to 206 in Electoral Votes. The Florida vote count is not included the announced vote total. Florida is lending heavily for the President and soon will announce the final votes.
The Nation proved that Big Money donor cannot create their reality of election events on the Nation level. Maybe the big donors can buy state and local elections, but not the Presidency of the United States. As least not this election.
Enjoyed the article.
After the dust has settled, it is without a doubt that Mr. Karl Rove is a shyster. In the coming months, I predict his every rising stardom will come crashing down and disintegrate. His success rate was one percent for every $103 million dollars spent. The funny thing is he is running around doing his typical Bush-era thing of claiming the exact opposite of what actually happened. And this will only lead to more failure.
Anyways, the people have indeed spoken. The people. Not the villainaires. The people. Corporations are now verified to NOT be people. People are people. The vote is way way stronger than any money thrown in politics. I can't be bought. You can't be bought. We can't be bought. Our vote is sacrosanct. This election proved it.
The hilarious thing about the Tea/Republican Party is they are already moving not to double down on the rhetoric, but I see every effort by the ultra-right wing media to triple down, trying to maintain they are indeed the voice of the Tea/Republican Party.
This will end up in more failure. We are watching them destroy themselves.
But, I have decided the best thing to do regarding Tea/Republicans is only one course of action...
I am going to have to stock up on an unlimited amount of popcorn.
I'm going to need it.
They will provide for entertainment enjoyment for at least the next two years. If not an entire generation or two.
Just gotta love it! Yes, I agree we too will stock up on popcorn. Too funny. I've read two funny articles without a full cup of coffee. It is going to be a great day!
I guess that Adelson has plenty of money to blow because is is not paying his people enough! Workers at his casino should strike for higher pay sionce Adelson can obviously afford it!
I would not want to be in Carl Rove's or Sheldon Adelson's place right now. Carl Rove has low morals billionaires like Adelson and the Koch brothers mad at him, and Adelson has and investigation to deal with and a very unfriendly President to influence things!
Putting lipstick on piggish republican candidates wasn't nearly enough to trick voters into thinking those old white guys were anything but swill sucking swine.
Note to GOPers -- Speaking publicly and approvingly about legitimate, God-intended rape is not a winning campaign strategy.
It sure sucks being these people. This is just what turned the election to Obama, voters finally seeing through the fake front that was Mitt Romney. Please keep in mind millions to Billionaires is like hundred of dollars to us common folks. Too bad this article did not dig deeper into the other tactics these people used. I use to work for Koch Industries not by choice but they bought the CO. I worked for. I was only 5 years away from retirement so I had to stay. One tactic they used was they wanted us to sign a paper which stated if any employee ran for any public office they had to get permission from Koch. I believe the Constitution states this different and it gives me the right to do so. That is what I told my employer when I refused to sign it. Second this year Koch sent a letter to all of it's Georgia Pacific employees telling them if Obama is re-elected their will be layoffs and closures. Gee I wonder if that changed any votes. Worst of all a bunch of other Billionaires did the same thing. Just think of the good 1/2 of this money spent on the election would do if applied in a correct way. This country needs to limit how much money can be donated for political campaigns no matter where it comes from. Political season has become a cash cow in this country especially for the TV stations. So as the defeated Billionaires go off to make more Billions and sulk I am sure they are going to meet up soon with the Grinch and plan out their next plan to control all of us.
Imagine the boost it could have given to our local economy if Mr. Adelson had given 1/3 of that total spent in bonuses to his employees? Or used it to give health and dental coverage to his legions of part-time workers? Or donated it to local shelters for the homeless or abused? Or donated it to the Red Cross?
Fox New believed their own bias to be true and repeated it over and over. The only problem? It wasn't true at all. Their in house pollster (Rasmussen) was beyond wrong in their predictions. Every single Fox News pundit was wrong in their prediction.
Republican party better wake up. If they couldn't win this election (8% unemployment, record debt and deficit, gridlocked congress) what election would they win? Without the money, it would have been a blow out.
Republican party better change because the US is changing.
"Donors have little to show after the cash flow into election"............... Yes they do, they will have a solid record to show America they tried, and used their money doing it to head off the total disaster heading this way. The Chameleon Party is bad news and they know it.
I personally would like to Thank Mr. Adelson for pumping Millions of dollars into the economy.
Mr. Adelson has done this in the past, just not on such a grand scale and each time who ever he backs loses so he ends up receiving nothing in return but it does put Millions of his dollars in play. Good for him. He is willing to put HIS MONEY where his mouth is even when he always loses. ;-)
Hmmm... no comments from the resident Wingers and Baggers?
I guess there are some things you just can't spin.
I don't see a constitutional amendment that overturns citizens united anytime soon. In the mean time we should tax these contributions in some way. Since corporations are people, making the contributions subject to the gift tax makes sense.
One would have thought that the republican leaders would have learned something but instead that bubble that they live in just grows stronger. That is actually good for America as we may not see another republican President for 12 to 20 years.
"You lost,chumps"........... Are you sure about that sport? America has Wingers, Teabaggers and Fleabaggers, one's just a common parasite. How long you think that will last? Hillary and Holder are even jumping ship in anticipation of the looming fumigation.
Even a hard blow to the head is not enough to wake up some deluded republicans, as we can see by the comments posted here.
I urge all wingnuts to step outside the Faux News / Ruse Limbauh media bubble. You've been duped big time.
Funny you should mention Hillary...she will be your next president!
High end tax breaks are used to swing elections - only broadcasting and media experienced higher incomes.
VegasEngineer: "I don't see a constitutional amendment that overturns citizens united anytime soon. In the mean time we should tax these contributions in some way. Since corporations are people, making the contributions subject to the gift tax makes sense."
I agree that the contributions should be treated as gifts and taxed as such.
As far as a constitutional amendment; there are other ways.
If Democrats can hold onto the Executive branch for the next 20 years the SCOTUS will likely lean left and overturn the prior decision. Also in the Citizens United case the SCOTUS made clear there can be NO collusion with candidates or political parties. I believe there is evidence of collusion and some bright US Attorneys are working on the cases. I recall a major slip by Karl Rove stating he was in contact with key Romney campaign officials. One conviction can have a very chilling effect.
I know this will never be read by those it really impacts however I believe its appropriate for the moment
Its a quote that a famous man once made to me and it goes like this
"When experience meets money,The one with the experience gets the money and the one with the money gets the experience.
Good luck to those monied individuals who have been smart and lucky in making a fortune. They also have the right to squander it on a fools errand. Like a bucket of water they have the power to stick their hands in and make waves however after they are gone the water in the bucket becomes calm once again.
The money problem has to be fixed. George Soros got what he paid for?????