We owe offerings to all gods Allah through Zeus every time former presidential candidate John McCain opens his mavericky mouth. The last time it happened, the Mitt Romney surrogate went on an impromptu rant against Super PACs, as in the very Super PACs that were funding Mitt Romney's primary campaign. It wasn't quite Obama-birth-certificate awkward, but it was awkward.
Today, the Mitt Romney surrogate went on an impromptu rant against...Super PACs, this time the specific donor who's specifically giving to Mitt Romney's campaign. Here's McCain on PBS' News Hour, complaining of the "foreign money" coming into Romney's campaign via Sheldon Adelson's $10 million contribution:
Much of Mr. Adelson's casino profits that go to him come from his casino in Macau, which says that obviously, maybe in a roundabout way foreign money is coming into an American political campaign...That is a great deal of money, and we need a level playing field and we need to go back to the realization... that we have to have a limit on the flow of money and corporations are not people.
Both times, McCain plays it off with some "What? What'd I say? I'm just an old man mumbling his mind. Where's my spoon? MATLOCK!" but given that this is the second time in a row, PoliticOlogy is starting to wonder how impromptu these impromptu rants are.
| Sheldon Adelson Gives $10 Million To Mitt Romney Super PAC |
Adelson has promised somewhere between $100 million and "unlimited" funds for Republicans this cycle, and GOP Super PACs are pledging to spend $1 billion on the election, in addition to the massive amounts the Romney campaign and the RNC are co-raising. For perspective, Adelson's donation alone is 1/35 of all the money John McCain raised in 2008, while Mitt Romney's $77 million May is 1/5 of McCain's 2008 haul.
Next to that, Obama's projected $750 mil is pure, uncut democracy, which is why the Obama campaign is gearing up to make Romney look like he's buying the election with the one-percent's unlimited Super PAC contributions. Or they could just sit back and let John McCain maverick that argument for them.
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