{"id":25312,"date":"2012-01-12T07:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T14:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/hooray-for-money.html"},"modified":"2012-01-12T18:10:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T01:10:24","slug":"hooray-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/hooray-for-money.html","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of unlimited donations to Super PACs, supporters of some of the increasingly has-been GOP candidates are able to keep those candidacies alive.<\/p>\n<p>Which I suppose is good news if you actually like Gingrich or Huntsman or Santorum, or if you think that their being in race will weaken Romney as an eventual candidate, or whatever.  But it&#39;s bad news if you realize that it&#39;s high-level personal donations (which the GOP would like to expand to corporate donations, too), plus ego, that are  keeping these candidates afloat, and driving the others to seek out more money, too.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t think that&#39;s a healthy thing for a nation. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.politico.com%2Fglobal%2F2012%2F01%2F120111_sheldon_ap_328.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0112\/71358.html'>3 billionaires who&#39;ll drag out the race &#8211; Kenneth P. Vogel<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThese wealthy patrons are fueling super PACs for Gingrich, Huntsman and Santorum.<br \/>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of unlimited donations to Super PACs, supporters of some of the increasingly has-been GOP candidates are able to keep those candidacies alive. Which I suppose is good news if you actually like Gingrich or Huntsman or Santorum, or if you think that their being in race will weaken Romney as an eventual candidate, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/hooray-for-money.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hooray for money!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":25312,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":25312,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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