The Men Who Own The GOP (incredibly important article)

[DirkGently]

3. We're already seeing campaign "sponsors" interviewed on their positions.

It's just the "money over people" vision of democracy Republicans have been after. Whoever's got the most money, and is willing to spend it to get their way, wins.

I do think it's biting them in ways they didn't expect though. It was supposed to be the corporate good old boy network running things, not wacky Las Vegas moguls leaping in and mucking things around.

Taken to its logical conclusion, at some point we'll just cut out the middle men, and porn kings and slot-machine magnates can just debate among themselves as to whether it's more important to drill for oil in the Grand Canyon or execute people late on their credit card payments.

They can debate on television while their avatar "candidates" wait quietly in the lobby.