Will Stealth Spending Decide the 2012 GOP Presidential Primaries?

An INFORMED electorate could care less about who puts up the most billboards, fields the most television ads and which spends the most money. Anyone who would place a vote to the one who told the most lies on a million 30 second spots on TV doesn't deserve the right to vote anyway. An uninformed vote is more dangerous than no vote at all.

The subtext in your essay is that rich people's money is somehow dirtier than that of unions and liberal groups; having been an unwilling contributor to AFT for many years, I believe that is a foolish assumption. I never knew what my money was buying, and I did not agree with many of the Union's expenditures, and I was never informed, probably, of many of them. At least honest self interest guides the wealthy...

Expect money from foreign companies, foreign nations and criminal cartels that do not have America's best interests at heart to flood the 2012 elections. A warning to those political parties that see nothing wrong with this system: these foreign nations expect to get something for their money and they become very ugly when they don't.

I like the fact that Mr. Shapiro ignores the fact that it was a Republican congress that passed McCain-Feingold over the objection of Democrats and that no bill introduced in the Senate could be stopped by Republicans for the past two years without Democratic support. The dirty truth is that the Republicans have finally mastered the same fundraising techniques that President Obama used to get elected in 2008 and that the Democrats used to take control of Congress in 2006. Liberals just cannot accept that the American people don't want their brand of government so they have to make excuses as to why they are losing.

Lets set the record straight, in the last presidential elections corporations outspent unions 60 to 1, in this last midterms corporations outspent unions 600 to 1. The last supreme court decision was not only treasonous but three members of the Supreme Court should be impeached because of it. I have to wonder when self proclaimed conservatives and republicans that arent millionaires or arent billionaires or the owner of a corporation are going to realize that the republicans have sold out the nation to the highest bidder. Further more, most of those whining and complaining about the deficits were the very ones cheering Bush and co on while they were doing their reckless and endless spending. Now they dont want to pay the bill...

for those of you who have no clue, it is against Fed. law for union dues to be given to a PAC. it comes from donations that are seperate from the dues paid.

Don't worry George Soros will have all his fingers and his tongue in the pie. He will make every effort to see that the USA does not survive. With him, the Unions, the Banks and other organizations that were bailed out how can the Democrats lose ???

Is there ONE person in America, who pays even a tiny amount of attention to what goes on, believe that Soros has not used his wealth to greatly influence our elections to seat Far Left ideologues. Get with it people, he has been doing this for years, and has made at least 4 visits to the WH since Obama has inhabited the Oval Office.

Simply because companies and individuals are "mega-rich" does not presuppose they have no foundation to stand on when they fund political campain ads. It seems left leaners use the same attack on the wealthy to stir up the non wealthy or struggling voters to create a bitter sentiment with those who had the luck or resourcefulness to keep their heads well above water during the campaign with their own adds against "millionare this fellow or that one" demonizing prosperity as though its something to look down upon and mediocrity is somethng to earnestly strive for. I don't understand why the article states that votes had no idea who paid for the adds,and am personally affronted by the notion that the american public does not do their homework. Most of us aren't led by the media machine like sheep. It does not bother most people that others are "mega-rich" in fact most of us would like to be mega-rich as well. This reminds me of a campaign add in Pennsylvania about Pat Toomey where they demonized his private sector work as a civilian and not a public figure, I kept thinking...maybe if he's done so much good for that Chinese buisness man and his ideas helped to vault that economy to the top of the world then maybe our leaders should possibly pay attention to what the man has to say because obviously it works.

Democrats recieved more donations. Union members have no say in where the donations go. They do not have a chioce if they want to donate it is part of thier dues. Union leader are feathering thier own beds. Union members should have a say in where donations go and if they want to donate. This will not be posted as it is the truth and the truth cannot be seen if it is not in line with the liberal author.