Obama "SuperPac" flip-flops "performance wear for politicians determined to win at any cost." Romney "SuperPac flip-flops, available with a variety of quotations, not shown. Click here for larger image.
"If we fail to act, we concede this election to a small group of powerful people intent on removing the President at any cost," fast-talking campaign manager Jim Messina wrote in an email to the little people following a conference call with major bundlers last night, attempting to shift the blame for his boss's flip flop on super Pacs onto the opposition:
"The main engine of Romney’s campaign has an average contribution of roughly $150,000. The stakes are too important to play by two different sets of rules."
The President had "reversed course by deciding to encourage Democrats to donate to big-money groups that he previously denounced [back in August of 2010] as representing ‘a corporate takeover of our democracy’ in order to help his re-election bid":
Before giving the go ahead, President Obama bemoaned the "negative" tone of the super PACs, political action committees that have become dominant fundraising vehicles since the Supreme Court’s controversial ‘Citizens United’ decision two years ago.
"The real story here," notes our friend Pete of Datechguy's Blog, "isn’t that he is taking the money, but the whys and wherefores listed by Politico":
But that wasn’t enough, sources say, to pull in major players such as George Soros, Peter Lewis, Steve Bing and others into the game. And many top Democratic donors were afraid of giving to Priorities USA until Obama made clear he wouldn’t stand on the sidelines and criticize their efforts
Like our own Massachusetts Junior Senator Scott Brown's limousine-liberal challenger Elizabeth Warren, faux populist Barack Obama has depended upon the magician's trick of misdirection to draw our attention away from the major gifts of the influential "1 percent" to focus on the small contributions of the great unwashed "99 percent." Warren is still peddling that snake oil, but Obama has finally pulled back the curtain, signaling his own "small group of powerful people" that it's now okay to contribute to an outside super PAC supporting his re-election:
The Obama campaign’s decision to promote Priorities USA arrived soon after new fundraising reports showed that American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS — two Republican super PACs associated with GOP strategist Karl Rove — raised a hefty $51 million last year while Democratic groups collared only $19 million.
Crossposted at Riehl World View.
It seems that free America is losing its freedom to power groups. All groups abuse if they get too much power. Let us hope we can stop the current trend toward dictatorial rule exemplified by our current president.
Posted by: goomp | February 08, 2012 at 09:20 AM
The Won is so busy trampling our Constitution in an arrogant bid to amass maximum power into his own hands - he must be stopped. I continue to fear that if he loses the election, he will declare martial law and refuse to leave office! He's that drunk with his perceived power!
For someone who claims to be a "constitutional lawyer", he knows little about the Constitution - but he knows enough to roll right over it.
Posted by: Gayle Miller | February 08, 2012 at 11:16 AM