From Andrew Sullivan's blog:
“Imagine this. Hillary Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Elizabeth Warren and multiple lesser Democratic notables travel halfway across the country to kiss the ring of a Palestinian-American billionaire who has shown himself willing to spend tens of millions of dollars subsidizing presidential campaigns.
The billionaire has some provocative views. Six months earlier, he suggested that if Israel does not end its nuclear weapons program, America should drop an “atomic weapon…in the middle of the [Negev] desert that doesn’t hurt a soul.” If that doesn’t work, America should drop “the next one…in the middle of” Tel Aviv.
The billionaire insists that there is no such thing as the Jewish people. It’s a hoax; the Jews “have fooled the world very successfully.” And he declares that “There isn’t a” Jew “alive who wasn’t raised on a curriculum of hatred and hostility toward the” Palestinians.
Change the words “Democrat” to “Republican,” “Israel” to “Iran” and “Palestinian” to “Jewish,” and that’s exactly what just happened.
Leading contenders for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination spent last weekend wooing and feting a billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, whose views – if directed at Jews—would put him in the company of Louis Farrakhan and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,” – Peter Beinart, Haaretz.
The Sheldon Adelson Suck-Up Fest
",,,in Las Vegas, Sheldon Adelson pulled up to his private airplane hangar in twin powder-blue Maybach limousines. (The second was for his bodyguards.) Inside, the rich and right-wing were gathered to hear from Jeb Bush, a private audience whose exclusivity seemed to signal the former Florida governor's privileged position in the suck-up contest.
Three other Republican leaders—New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and Ohio Governor John Kasich—were consigned to the public program of the event, which was ostensibly a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition. But everybody knew what it was really about: impressing Adelson.
Like the daughters of King Lear, or the cast of Mean Girls, each sought to outdo the others in his fawning. Christie told of his recent trip to Israel, which, he noted, is "about the same size as New Jersey." Walker mentioned he owns a menorah. Kasich dispensed with the pretense of speaking to the roomful of Republican Jews and addressed his remarks to Adelson directly, as in, “Hey, listen, Sheldon, thanks for inviting me.”
But...but...GEORGE SOROS!
6 comments:
The right whines about Soros but tolerates Adelson? Makes hypocritical sense to me.
So exactly which terror group does Sheldon Adelson support?
I am not dismissing the outsized influence of folks like the Koch brothers, but the Dems have their sugar daddies too, Soros and unions being among them.
Unless and until we can get not just big, but huge money out of our races, this is what we will have.
When you need literally millions and millions to run for public office, it matters not what party you are from, you must seek the $$$, or lose.
There are no saints here.
Yes we have the best government money can buy and they are all for sale.
They are both special interest. Opposing ideologies but special interest nonetheless.
As a conservative libertarian I approve of neither.
As a Progressive Democrat I approve of neither. I also do not approve of unilateral disarmament, however. We need rules that apply equally to both. But I think we all know which side generally spends more... this is why the SCOTUS ruling was 5–4.
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