“The best things in life are free” - Eric Alterman

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The next time you read from someone like Mickey Kaus or Jake Tapper about what a captive of “special interests” John Kerry is, remember this:  Bush has so far raised 28 times the amount of PAC money that Kerry has.  Of course, next thing you will hear is that it does not matter who has raised more—or even 28 times as much- because this fundraising stuff itself is not important but rather is a “perfectly legitimate synecdoche for this type of Kerry behavior,” as Mickey might say. 

I say, "Oh cut the crap, please, will you?” (No link on the “twenty-eight times" figure because it appears in a forthcoming story that Mike Tomasky and I co-authored for The American Prospect.)

In the meantime The Note, a website which does not think Bernie Goldberg’s worldview is entirely ridiculous, reports, “President Bush is leading the pack, with his campaign collecting $130 million last year -- roughly the same tally as all the Democratic contenders combined.  The Bush team has at least $100 million in its coffers and should raise another $50 million by the time the Republicans meet in New York this September. “

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/