Democrats and Campaign Finance Law

By Douglas V. Gibbs

After railing against the Citizens United case, and the ruling that found corporations to be individuals when it comes to political contributions, the Democrats have decided to take donations any which way they can.

The fear is that the Republicans, in light of the 2010 election, may be able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the 2012 campaign. To counter this onslaught of GOP money, the Democrats have decided to get whatever contributions they can, including donations from undisclosed sources.

Priorities USA and Priorities USA Action, two leftist organizations, have decided to ignore Obama's plea for holding campaign finance standards, and plan to take unregulated donations that do not require disclosure - the exact kind of donations that Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats have railed against in their accusations against Republican groups that do the same thing. The organizers said the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United's case opened the door to unlimited corporate contributions, leaving them no choice.

The Democrats realize that they are at a disadvantage now, regarding campaign finance law. The Republicans have used the rules from the Citizens United case to their advantage, and the Democrats, despite their attempt to ramp up a broader effort, realized that they fell short.

Slow to react to the new campaign finance landscape, Democrats have become eager to appear as if they are competing, while not revealing the fact that their hypocrisy is at an all-time high.

Problem is, the Democrats think the same thing they normally think - if they throw enough money at something, everything will work out. They don't realize that money is not what would save them. Their plight is not lack of donations. Their plight is the failure of liberalism, and the fact that the American voter, thanks to the idiocy of Obama and the Congressional Democrats, have caught on to the danger behind the authoritarian policies of progressivism.

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