Thread: Can Trump buy the election?

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Four leading GOP presidential candidates – Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker – are traveling to a Southern California luxury hotel in coming days to make their cases directly to the Koch brothers and hundreds of other wealthy conservatives planning to spend close to $1 billion in the run-up to the 2016 election.


The Koch operation intends to spend nearly $889 million in the run-up to the 2016 election,


http://www.alipac.us/f9/koch-brother...confab-321634/

Who wants any of those four balancing your checkbook?

It is sad to see the media with its consistently biased view. You have to wonder if even Dwight Eisenhower could be elected today, with the media so permanently self satisfied. I wonder what kind of bubble these people live in; apparently they don't rub shoulders with the Americans who have to deal with the frustrations of illegal aliens and left wing government policy.

Originally Posted by Captainron

It is sad to see the media with its consistently biased view. You have to wonder if even Dwight Eisenhower could be elected today, with the media so permanently self satisfied. I wonder what kind of bubble these people live in; apparently they don't rub shoulders with the Americans who have to deal with the frustrations of illegal aliens and left wing government policy.

It's very depressing, it really is. You take a good man like Donald Trump, risking his business relationships to tell the truth about illegal immigration, spending his own money to pay for his campaign so he doesn't owe any big donors who want to betray us, and watch the media and the RNC establishment carry on like jealous morons trying every minute of every day to tear him down to support someone who will betray us before they're even elected and sworn into office.

People like Carly Fiorina, who supports the Dream Act, Free Trade Treason and would sign the Gang of Eight Bill in a heartbeat, people like Marco Rubio who can't wait to pass his Gang of Eight Bill, or Jeb Bush who will sell US out faster and more completely than his Dad and Brother have through "acts of love" and "keeping US safe."

No one can buy an election. Yes, it costs a significant amount of money to get a candidate's message to the people but after that is done the incremental effect of more campaign spending decreases dramatically. The basis of this myth is that democracy doesn't work; that people vote on the candidate with the most publicity instead of the one they choose. This idea is pushed by those who want to limit free speech.

Originally Posted by artclam

No one can buy an election. Yes, it costs a significant amount of money to get a candidate's message to the people but after that is done the incremental effect of more campaign spending decreases dramatically. The basis of this myth is that democracy doesn't work; that people vote on the candidate with the most publicity instead of the one they choose. This idea is pushed by those who want to limit free speech.

There is an exception to this and that is the amount of lies blasted over television late in the election cycle, when candidates lose the time and means to correct the record. So as I consider this for 2016, we better hope and pray Trump can buy the election.

Or we're doomed.