is raising money on behalf of his own cause. He is bad at almost everything else that requires a tincture of common sense or good judgement, but at fundraising, he is a champ.
So there is an obvious unsustainable tension there, that got a little closer to the breaking down this week when it was revealed that Romney has been taking contributions from false front corporations created simply to launder money.
Well in truth, all this malarky is the Supreme Court's fault that we are living out a Hobbesian nightmare with respect to campaign finance. The Citizen's United decision (A real republic-wrecker if ever there was one) makes corporations into "people" with a right to free speech even though we cannot draft corporations in war time or even tax them at a rate familiar to any strap hanger. That, and a loosening of disclosure rules have created a sort of "Mad Max" political landscape out there, almost any sort of excess can now be envisioned up to and including political donations from entirely foreign sources.
So given Mitt's craven lack of judgement, you can't really expect him to maintain a pose of rectitude in such a temptation rich environment. Anyway by this time tomorrow he will be blaming it all on Barack Obama, socialism or the League of Women Voters, the exact target to be determined by polling.
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