R
rdean
Guest
So what would George Clooney and the couple of hundred people who showed up to pay 40,000 a plate to support Obama be? I'm pretty sure the middle class people do not have 40,000 laying around for something like that.Right-Wing Billionaires Behind Mitt Romney | Politics News | Rolling Stone
They're trying to buy a presidency - and they expect a big payoff on their investment
The undisputed master of Super PAC money is Mitt Romney. In the primary season alone, Romney's rich friends invested $52 million in his Super PAC, Restore Our Future a number that's expected to more than double in the coming months. This unprecedented infusion of money from America's monied elites underscores the radical transformation of the Republican Party, which has made defending the interests of 0.0001 percent the basis of its entire platform. "Money buys power," the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman observed recently, "and the increasing wealth of a tiny minority has effectively bought the allegiance of one of our two major political parties." In short, the political polarization and gridlock in Washington are a direct result of the GOP's capitulation to Big Money.
That capitulation is evident in Romney's campaign. Most of the megadonors backing his candidacy are elderly billionaires: Their median age is 66, and their median wealth is $1 billion. Each is looking for a payoff that will benefit his business interests, and they will all profit from Romney's pledge to eliminate inheritance taxes, extend the Bush tax cuts for the superwealthy and then slash the top tax rate by another 20 percent. Romney has firmly joined the ranks of the economic nutcases who spout the lie of trickle-down economics. "Support from billionaires has always been the main thing keeping those charlatans and cranks in business," Krugman noted. "And now the same people effectively own a whole political party."
Go for it. I have an umbrella, a tarp, and I'm wearing teflon undies.
How come you guys make a claim and then jump to George Clooney.
First, George isn't trying to hide who he is.
Second, the press was invited so no one at the fundraiser was "hiding".
Third, the amount was actually about 15 million, but most of it came from an "online raffle" where people bought 15 dollar tickets and the winners went to the fundraiser.
Why don't Republicans do stuff like that? Instead of secret and hidden donations from billionaires? Bring it out into the open. Let everyone see.