All that foreign Sovereign Wealth fund money streaming into "American" subsidiaries to create attack ads can't be good for Democracy.

Just ask the Soviet SCOTUS. They sold out America on principle.

The principle of surrender.

Well, it is certainly nice that we live in such a strong economy that people can throw away all that money on a losing campaign! I mean, just imagine how people would feel if the economy were in the crapper, lots of people were unemployed, and humanitarian causes around the world were badly neglected, and they saw all those rich men sloshing that kind of money around trying to promote some unlikeable WASP*-bot that had absolutely no chance of winning the election!

*- Do Mormons count as Protestant? I don't even know. I certainly don't care.

No, mormons aren't protestant. They are their own brand of wacky.

Actually, do Mormons believe in the divinity of Christ?

There is this nuke waste billionaire who has donated 18 million so far this year, and he says he'll out spend his previous giving by a lot. $18 million is about 0.2% of what the Obama campaign spent in 2008. And $18 million is about $5.00 per voter in the 2008 presidential election.

His past giving wasn't only to republicans, but this year I think Karl Rove's superpac has received the most.

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/05/the_gops…

This year is all about voter suppression. The Crossroads ads will just provide a nice counter-narrative for why turnout is so low: it's not that people have been systematically disenfranchised, it's just that they're turned off by all the partisan bickering.

No amount of PAC money can make Republican shmucks look good.

the amount spent by Republicans and supporters will equal billions. as its a media war that has no rules other than buy up all the media you can and lie about everything, promise everything ,lets go to the moon with Newt and build a Military base? I dont think the GOP even knows how much cash and tax they are going to spew across the nation.

As @9 put it if you have nothing to say then spending money to say nothing is not as effective as saying something for nothing that is useful and at least true?