So now, the WSJ Editorial is whining: Bloomberg's Florida Purchase

[question everything]

We don’t begrudge Mr. Bloomberg’s spending on causes and candidates he believes in. But Democrats and the political left say big money corrupts politics. Now that the big money will be used against President Trump, we’re not hearing complaints about spending.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bloombergs-florida-purchase-11600126292 (subscription)

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And you should not. What's good for the goose... etc. We are not suckers.

[Stallion]

1. WSJ is Right-Democrats Should Tie Both Hands Behind our Backs to Attract Bernie Bros

[aidbo]

5. Yeah! Suck it Bernie Bros!

[lpbk2713]

3. He should be commended.

He is actually protecting America against a serious threat.

[spanone]

4. Wall Street Urinal is fox 'news' in paper form

owned by murdoch

[still_one]

11. +++. Well said

[spanone]

12. 👍🏼

[BannonsLiver]

6. The WSJ premise is flawed

He’s not purchasing votes. He’s simply providing funding to help the candidate he believes is best make his case. Voters in Florida will be the ultimate arbiters. His money guarantees nothing.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Is the WSJ complaining about Adelson

or other deep pocket GOP donors?

[question everything]

9. Wasn't Citizens United the same?

Not to purchase votes per se?

[BannonsLiver]

13. Indeed

But as you correctly pointed out, what’s good for the goose...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Democrats can't just unilaterally disarm

We need to win before we can actually change anything. And with the obscene amounts of money needed to win a national race, it would be insane to not do what it takes to win and then work on fixing the system but we can't do anything if we unilaterally disarm ourselves of what we need in order to win

[lame54]

10. Waaaaaaa - only we get to cheat...

It's not fair when they don't follow the rules

We count on them walking the straight line like the British during the revolution

[ProfessorGAC]

14. We Can Believe Big $ in Politics Is Bad

We can also be realists an understand what the current rules are.
It's a ridiculous complaint by the WSJ Ed Board.
It's 100% possible to believe too much money in campaigns is bad, but still be glad our principles are being backed by big money. After all, it's not like the other side dared us into a budget battle.

[orwell]

15. Democrats and...

..."the political left."

Good job WSJ. Carry that water for Don the Con...

Now the center is the "political left."

If anything the Democratic party has bent over backwards to be centrist or mildly right of center to attract voters brainwashed by the constant bombardment of RW Con propaganda from Rush, Faux, WSJ, CNBC, Faux Business, Murdoch's other global media, the US Chamber, and Facebook, along with a host of other paid shills.

Why do you think words like "union", "liberal", "class", "poor", "socialist", "lgbtq", "organic", "vegan", "vegetarian", "antifa", "global warming", "climate change", "face masks", "Obamacare", have been either effectively eliminated from the vocabulary, or negatively associated with being anti-american. When was the last time you heard a politician embrace the word "liberal". Liberal has become "progressive". Now the Cons are working on that.

This isn't an accident. This has been going on since the 60's when the establishment business and wealthy class declared war on the workers and middle class. You can see it in the erosion of wages and the shifting of wealth to the top .1%. This is a planned strategy that has been executed flawlessly.

"The Left" in this country would be "The Right" in most other countries...

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

- George Orwell

[Raven123]

16. So WSJ is upset the Dems aren't bringing a knife to a gunfight. Sounds about right.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. Gosh, how many billions in free air time did McPravda give Con?

...The real estate magnate got $4.96 billion in free earned media in the year leading up to the presidential election, according to data from tracking firm mediaQuant...

Source: https://www.thestreet.com/politics/donald-trump-rode-5-billion-in-free-media-to-the-white-house-13896916

[Sympthsical]

18. Because right now the gloves are off

Trump is such a danger to the Republic that now is not the time to play nice. I'm against billionaires purchasing elections, but I'm fine with being principle-flexible on this one.

The man is an existential threat. We have to treat him as such.

[JPbelgium]

19. It is what it is (n/t)

[FakeNoose]

20. Big money corrupts the media

... but that ship has sailed long ago.