The best thing that could happen to Citizen's United is

[jillan]

Have multi-billionaires like Adelson + the Kochs & groups like KKKarl's pour in their billions to Mitt's campaign and then
have him lose. Big.

Billions and billions of dollars thrown in the trash just might make John Roberts wake up & scratch his perfectly coiffed hair.

And when President Obama wins re-election, I can't wait to say...
"How's that buying a President thingy workin' out for ya?"

[Nye Bevan]

1. I guess that would prove that Citizens United did not portend the end of the world (nt)

[former9thward]

2. President Obama is benefiting from CU also.

Not only are some corporations contributing to Obama but CU freed labor unions to make unlimited contributions. It is a two way street.

[SoutherDem]

3. Yes he is but

Should he refuse to use a super pac and be out spent more than he already will be?

[former9thward]

4. No he should spend whatever is necessary.

He out spent McCain by almost 2 to 1 and every dollar of that was needed. I am not one of those who wails about money in politics. I am in favor of unlimited contributions as long as the donors are identified and reported online in 24 hours.

[bongbong]

6. Unlimited?

Interestingly, "Unlimited labor union contributions" is monetarily exactly equal to:

The pocket change found in the sofas of billionaires that hate Democracy & send money to repigs.

[former9thward]

7. Not really.

If you go to opensecrets.com you will find the contributions from different groups to whatever candidate you choose. President Obama has plenty of billionaire friends like Sores and Buffet and he is doing just fine in that area. Obama and Romney will both have the money they need to run their campaigns.

[bongbong]

10. Yes, really

Your response was to somebody else's post, since mine was about the size of union contributions vs. billionaires.

[former9thward]

12. If there is a disparity then show it.

Assertions are fine. I like to see facts.

[bongbong]

14. Facts

The fact is you made up a Strawman post that had nothing to do with mine. I guess that is some kind of "rebuttal".

Corporate slush funds outnumber union contributions not by number of times, but by orders of magnitude. If you hadn't attempted to malign my original post with your mis-direction/Strawman, I would've provided the data. But I don't do work for people who post such crap.

[Faux pas]

13. Nailed it.

[NashvilleLefty]

5. They wouldn't care.

They only contribute the amount that they think they can afford to lose. Although it seems enough for several people to retire on, it's nothing to these people.

That's part of the problem.

[Auntie Bush]

8. And will Aletio apoligize for his head shaking & not believing foreign money will effect

our elections...doubt it!

[doc03]

9. I don't think Obama will win the election and if he does it will

be by a very thin margin. If he doesn't win Democrats will blame CU for it.

[Greybnk48]

11. Problem is, as Ezra Klein said tonight

the money WILL have a huge impact down ticket. It always does. Look what happened to Feingold in our state of Wisconsin. An idiot like Ron Johnson won because of well crafted messages against him and relentless ads that Feingold did not match.