The money shot, from Mother Jones

Posted on June 29, 2012 | 11 Comments

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11 Responses to The money shot, from Mother Jones

leftover | June 29, 2012 at 11:40 am | Reply

So…in a market-state election…(One dollar. One Vote.)…it looks pretty close to neck-and-neck.
So which store do we buy at to support which candidate?
Or do we just send someone the money direct. I like the shopping part better. Your left with, at least, something immediately tangible…like a sales slip…to connect you with your party candidate.

Otherwise you got to just wait for it.
Like healthcare reform.
meh | June 29, 2012 at 12:34 pm | Reply

Are there any internet coupons for the purchase of politicians?
- datingjesus | June 29, 2012 at 12:38 pm | Reply
  
  Tried it at Google: “politicans for sale,” and got, among other things, this: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28804.htm
Meghan Freed | June 29, 2012 at 12:46 pm | Reply

I’m going to go on a date with a Republican Super PAC.

Oh. Wait.
- datingjesus | June 29, 2012 at 12:57 pm | Reply
  
  Make sure the Republican Super PAC pays. They’re good for it. Oh. Wait…
sharon | June 29, 2012 at 1:04 pm | Reply

What a waste of resources.
- Mary Ann | June 29, 2012 at 1:58 pm | Reply
  
  YES! The more so as it’s being touted as points in the ladly competition. Is anyone thinking of these funds as resources to be used– even to be used for advertising and diseminating candidate information? Let alone taken from the purchase or manufacture of food or shelter or art or knowledge?
  - Cynical Susan | June 29, 2012 at 11:21 pm | Reply
    
    It makes me crazy when I see how much a Linda McMahon, say, spends — what was it, $50 million the last time she ran? Just think about how much GOOD could be done for $50 million.
leigh | June 30, 2012 at 7:54 am | Reply

I wouldn’t buy a politician unless there was a money back guarantee. That’s the problem with our current system!
- datingjesus | June 30, 2012 at 7:57 am | Reply
  
  I’ve been thinking about that a lot, lately, as I am rapidly becoming an heiress, having quit my day job. What’s to say that a crooked politician who takes money for actions committed later will actually do what s/he has been bought and paid for to do? Does it happen that politicians sometimes don’t live up to those promises, as well?
  
  I sound more cynical (no offense, Cynical) than I feel.
Cynical Susan | June 30, 2012 at 2:47 pm | Reply

No no, cynical is good! It’s better than greed!