perhaps only surpassed by the thoughts I am having now towards five on the USSC

What could they do with it? Have Walker Parades? Have non-stop commercials on every cable outlet in the country?

After a certain point, the opposite effect will rise to the fore -people will tire of Walker and be less likely to vote for him.

To know him is to dislike him. His own party dislikes him. Only the .001% can stand the guy.

The more he's in our faces, the more we'll be cringing every day.

Yeah, I don't see the point. A lot of money might buy you the election. But tons and tons of money might buy you a pass to the 'Meh' farm.

Oops, I mean Amercia.

See, both sides do it and George Soros is *scary* right?

This year he's in for 2 million so far and it's to grassroots organizing groups not Obama's campaign.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9252906/US-election-2012-George-Soros-backs-Democrats.html

Tell us more about how both sides are the same...it's one of my favorite fairy tales

Julie

I should really use the sarcasm thingie more often.

...may I assume you were being sarcastic?

POLITICO has learned that Koch-related organizations plan to spend about $400 million ahead of the 2012 elections - twice what they had been expected to commit.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76849.html#ixzz1wNZS1G4L

Because taxes are evil.

It's about the power. Government should never be more powerful than they are.

america will get the best president money can buy. usa! usa! usa!-

This is what Cheney selected him to the bench for, and Roberts is doing what he promised.

His kids probably have some hefty trust funds set up for them, laying in some lawyer's to-do box in Wichita.

Alito was saying "that's not true" during Obama's SOTU speech when he warned against exactly what is nowhappening.
Of course, these days, his line is more a smug "that's too bad."

That was the other smarmy prick.

They aren't creating anything with their money but political propaganda. Just another reason to tax them to the hilt and then some.

I always liked Orwell.

I think it's time to pull that old fave bumper sticker out again.

ReTHUG

Fun while it lasted that "Freedom and Liberty"

this is simply another testament to that fact.

I'm going to read how, why the founders created the electoral college. They may have had some serious doubts about the voters minds. I mean who would sit around and watch/believe these ads?

We all know alot of money is spent on elections but noone, not even the KKKoch's, would drop $400m on a single candidate.

They will throw EVERYTHING at Obama.

Our democracy is really more of a business.

400 million seemed like a lot to me, even for people like the Kochs.

Apparently their combined net worth is about 50 billion. So 400 million is less than 1 percent of their fortune. It's the equivalent of a family worth $50K donating $400 to a campaign.

This is all so ridiculous!

Can we please aggravate the hell out of the Democratic Party and get a Publicly-Funded Elections plank inserted into the party platform? Cause THAT would be awesome, and the GOP would have NO political defense against such an argument.

so they can compete...

or so the networks can get wealthier?

It won't be Secretary of State Trump saying: "President Romney, the nation is under attack"

You can bet it is one of the Koch brothers with marching orders.

No one NO ONE gives hundreds of thousands let alone hundreds of millions to a political candidate without believing their call will be taken, their wants WILL be addressed to their satisfaction. period.

And it's voluntary.

Bear with me...it makes it easier to juxtapose our differences. All we need are political ads asking why people should think he is on their side, while bank-rolled by such rich benefactors. We really could ride a populism wave unlike anything we have ever seen! If this is the reality we fight in, then so be it.

I'm hoping you're right...it'd be very satisfying to see these rich bastidges spend a ton of money and get nothing in return, but I also see a lot of apathy out there. Sadly I see it right here on DU where people are lukewarm in their support of the party and going to "punish" President Obama or whomever by not donating or volunteering to work in the upcoming election. This is shaping up to be an election of the haves vs. the havenots...and the haves are hungrier at this point.

believe me, I will continue trying to educate people, because I am doubtful of my own hopes.

Wisconsin is proof of the power of money. Walker should be down 15-20, but instead he's on course to win. A GOP landslide and three-tier rule will absolutely be the result if this isn't met by the billionaires who claim to be liberal when the camera rolls.

I understand why on an ethical level Buffett etc might not want to donate, but what's the alternative? Citizens United becoming enshrined and the backing of Koch co. becoming the only way to win elections. They must know that.

With that much donated, all the media will talk about is the Koch's and the money, and not Romney.

That may also be enough to get people that may have been leaning toward Romney to vote against him.

They have the money and are complicit in the effects a Romney Presidency would have on middle and low income Americans - not to mention the rest of the world - if they decide not to. Donate now, or CU and perpetual right wing rule is the future.

Future Democratic Presidential nominees would HAVE to lurch far, far right in order to stand the slightest chance. That would be the ONLY way to have a hope of gaining the support of Koch & co, something that would be more or less essential; Romney wins this, their endorsement is the only way to win every single election from herein.

It's no good these characters whining about paying too mch tax and wanting an end to Citizens United if they're going to let it win this election for Romney. Indeed, doing little or nothing could be seen as a tacit endorsement of the policy, their protestations against it little more than a cynical ploy toe sure that they remain well-liked by what they consider the ’cool’ crowd.

Mitt has to report it, doesn't he??

Meg Whitman tried to spend her way to victory. It wasn't successful. The Koch's didn't use any of that money to create jobs, now it will be freed up for the advertising community.

Whitman spent a pretty penny and ended up with nothing to show for it.