Just a note, here: note how Donald Trump is getting the Super PACs that were trying to help him shut down. Essentially, “he seems to be using his business and legal experience to forbid their using his name, likeness and image to raise money,” as Hot Air put it. And isn’t that an interesting technique?
Now, let me assure you: I don’t have a problem with Super PACs, because I don’t have a problem with freedom of speech. So I can cheerfully ignore, with no problem, whatsoever any suggestion that we get rid of Super PACs. But if you are a candidate who fulminated against the use of Super PACs, and who does not adopt this tactic for discouraging ones set up to benefit you, then you are a screaming hypocrite. Not to mention a Democrat, but there are many people out there who would think that I’m being needlessly redundant in saying so.
Moe Lane
Interesting. No, not the whole Dem hypocrisy, that’s hardly news, rather that Trump is *successful* at this.
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Perhaps it’s my deeply cynical nature talking here, but .. that The Donald blocked some PACs that were trying to fundraise off his campaign may mean they’re not going to be so willing to help him .. that’ part’s obvious .. what’s not is whether they were *actually* going to help him, though.
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PACs are governed by Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy, after all ..
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MEw
If they don’t have double standards, then they won’t have any standard.