That would be a quaint response in today’s political
world where SuperPAC blowhards with barrels of money are unleashed by Citizens
United to say anything they want without taking responsibility for it.
Meet Joe Ricketts, the latest candidate for that old
Monty Python title of rich twit of the year. An “up-by-the bootstraps
billionaire” who decided to become “a player in the 2012 election,” Ricketts
has set a new speed record for public stupidity by agreeing to and then backing
off a $10 million ad campaign “linking President Obama to the incendiary race-infused
statements of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.,” which immediately
drew “waves of denunciation from Mitt Romney, the Obama campaign and much of
the rest of the political world.”
Since the Supreme Court decided corporations are
people, the parameters of America as a say-anything society have expanded to
encompass some odd specimens. Describing Ricketts, an anonymous business
associate says, “Half the time he’s a Libertarian and half the time he’s Rush
Limbaugh.”
Ricketts’ public embarrassment was only accidental,
following a leak of the Jeremiah Wright proposal, but how many more are in his
pipeline and those of other anonymous would-be 2012 players?
Norman Mailer was famously the author of “Advertisements
for Myself.” What would he make of this new crop of self-seekers bankrolling “Advertisements
Against Obama” but refusing to take personal responsibility for them?
At least in his own first commercial, Mitt Romney lays out what he would do in office under his own name.
At least in his own first commercial, Mitt Romney lays out what he would do in office under his own name.
2 comments:
The even funnier part is his family owns the Chicago Cubs and were seeking tax credits from Rahm Emanuel to refurbish Wrigley Field. Now Rahm won't take their calls.
The last thing Romney or any Morman wants is to make this election about religion...The mormans will be toast if their beliefs are exposed.
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