Money can't buy happiness, or an election

Money can't buy happiness, or an election

Money can't buy happiness, nor can it buy an election, apparently.

The top donors to super PACs in 2012 did not fare well — casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, the No. 1 super PAC contributor with more than $53 million in giving, backed eight losers at this writing.

Adelson was top backer of the pro-Mitt Romney Restore Our Future super PAC, with $20 million in donations. Romney lost to President Barack Obama. In addition, Adelson's contributions to super PACs backing U.S. Senate candidates in Florida, Virginia and New Jersey were also for naught. He was not the only conservative billionaire who had a bad night.

Contran Corp. CEO Harold Simmons, (No. 2), homebuilder Bob Perry (No. 3) and TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, (No.4), also bet on Romney. Collectively, the trio gave $13.4 million to Restore Our Future, and Ricketts' super PAC, Ending Spending Action Fund, spent an additional $9.9 million helping Romney's failed bid.

Adelson also invested in the re-election of Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., in Florida's 18th District, who was trailing in his battle with Democratic newcomer Patrick Murphy at this writing.

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/20 ... ction?lite

I guess democracy wasn't for-sale after all... Adelson actually gave over $70million, if you count the money he wasted on Newt Gingrich....Woof, 0-8 record...for $70mil....

And altogether, I think it's over $350mil that Karl Rove p*ssed away...

I guess they should go MORE to the right and get a MORE conservative--("with a Capital-C")--candidate next time...

Did you see the comments from the Iranian President, it just boggled his mind how much America spends on democracy when they can't even feed their people.

And those billions spent by both sides? That is so they can get access to the trillions goverment spends every year. Pretty nice payoff if you support the right guy, and some companies support both parties just to make sure.

LadyJazzer wrote:

Money can't buy happiness, or an election

Money can't buy happiness, nor can it buy an election, apparently.

The top donors to super PACs in 2012 did not fare well — casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, the No. 1 super PAC contributor with more than $53 million in giving, backed eight losers at this writing.

Adelson was top backer of the pro-Mitt Romney Restore Our Future super PAC, with $20 million in donations. Romney lost to President Barack Obama. In addition, Adelson's contributions to super PACs backing U.S. Senate candidates in Florida, Virginia and New Jersey were also for naught. He was not the only conservative billionaire who had a bad night.

Contran Corp. CEO Harold Simmons, (No. 2), homebuilder Bob Perry (No. 3) and TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, (No.4), also bet on Romney. Collectively, the trio gave $13.4 million to Restore Our Future, and Ricketts' super PAC, Ending Spending Action Fund, spent an additional $9.9 million helping Romney's failed bid.

Adelson also invested in the re-election of Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., in Florida's 18th District, who was trailing in his battle with Democratic newcomer Patrick Murphy at this writing.

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/20 ... ction?lite

I guess democracy wasn't for-sale after all... Adelson actually gave over $70million, if you count the money he wasted on Newt Gingrich....Woof, 0-8 record...for $70mil....

And altogether, I think it's over $350mil that Karl Rove p*ssed away...

I guess they should go MORE to the right and get a MORE conservative--("with a Capital-C")--candidate next time...

Yawn.

I guess democracy wasn't for-sale after all...

So you admit you were wrong?

To coin a phrase:

Yawn.

Apparently, Money can't force employees to vote the way you demand for them to, either. I wondered what these sleazebags would do. Now, at least we know what one of them did:

David Siegel, Billionaire Whose Letter Promised Mass Layoffs After Obama Win, Gives Workers Raises

The private timeshare mogul and Mitt Romney supporter who swore mass employee layoffs if President Barack Obama won reelection has had a change of heart.

Earlier this year, David Siegel, the founder of Central Florida Investments and Westgate Resorts, emailed a letter to his employees warning them to vote for Romney or else. However, after Obama won the election on Tuesday, instead of firing some of his 65,000 employees, Siegel decided to give them raises.

The anti-Obama Siegel opened up about his change of heart. "I’m going to work my hardest to keep the company going and expand the best I can," Siegel told Bloomberg Businessweek. "We’ll see what happens. Meanwhile I gave everybody in the company a raise this week—the average was 5 percent. I wanted to help them handle the additional burdens the government will put on them."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... f=business

I guess the sky didn't fall, and the hordes have not invaded our shores...

Amazing to me how the massive dichotomy in 2008 spending wasn't democracy for sale when it favored the Democrats, but it was democracy for sale when the opponents of the Democrats were the ones spending more money. More "progressive" hypocrisy - and yes, it's a yawn. We've seen it so often from them that it no longer is surprising, or noteworthy.

Printsmith wrote: 289 - Romney. Bonus prediction that he becomes the first Republican to win the electoral count without winning Ohio in case a tiebreaker is necessary.

Amazing to me how totally wrong you were on the outcome of the election.

Looks like RenegadeCJ is going to win the electoral vote contest, even if he probably did think it would be Romney with the win, and not Obama. Even his guess was lower than what the electoral count will likely turn out to be.

And on the other side of the scale, we really DO have a TeaHadist slimebag at work...

Las Vegas CEO Reportedly Fired 22 Workers Because Of Obama's Reelection

One Las Vegas CEO reportedly had an extreme reaction to President Obama's reelection.

“David,” whose full name and company have yet to be disclosed, told radio host Kevin Wall on 100.5 KXNT that he fired 22 of his 114 employees as a direct result of Obama’s win, arguing that “elections have consequences” and that he needs “to survive.” “David” refused to identify himself for “obvious reasons,” according to the radio station.

“I had to lay off 22 people today to make sure that my business is gonna thrive and I’m gonna be around for years to come,” the CEO said. “I have to build up that nest egg now for the taxes and regulations that are coming my way.”

The CEO would be among the first, if not the first outright, to fire workers as a direct result of Obama's reelection, a threat made many times before the presidential election. The new political push by employers was the result of both the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which made such declarations legal, and a June conference call in which Mitt Romney urged employers to tell their workers how they voted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... f=business

Now, in all fairness, it does say "Reportedly", which suggests it hasn't been confirmed yet...

But in the meantime, you can go ahead and post the standard "He's a job-creator--He can do anything he wants" messages here: __

He created more jobs than Obama did- guess that's why liberals hate him so much.