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LAS VEGAS (The Borowitz Report)The casino billionaire and Republican kingmaker Sheldon Adelson met several 2016 G.O.P. candidates available for purchase over the weekend, but decided to buy none of them, Adelson confirmed today.
After hearing speeches by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and several others who were for sale, Mr. Adelson concluded that none of them are worth owning.
I dont want to spend millions on another loser, said Adelson, who purchased both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in 2012.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/03/sheldon-adelson-says-no-republican-candidate-worth-buying.html
htuttle
(23,738 posts)louis-t
(23,292 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,583 posts)I was really looking forward to seeing him throw many more millions of dollars after these disgus....I mean wonderful candidates!
BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)Oops...Borowitz.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)MindMover
(5,016 posts)enid602
(8,613 posts)With his billions, you would think he could afford a better barber.
icymist
(15,888 posts)Poor baby.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,670 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)and to bet his hundred million bucks on himself.
How much fun would that be?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)we all know that SA lives in Backwardsville, where he views all candidates as competent and as winners who most other Americans wouldn't even spit in their direction.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts).......they offered to sell their souls to the Devil, and he wasn't buying! What a let-down that must be!
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)to the Palestinian plight to be funded to run for any office in this country. Just imagine what the media, the pundits, the RW and the Islamaphobes would be saying right now. Just imagine. And whoever visited hoping to be bankrolled would be labeled forever as trying to bring Sharia law to the USA and aligning themselves with "terrorists." Sometimes reality doesn't even make good fiction.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)His money will be out there. We just have to wait. Or maybe he was disappointed that Trump was absent!!
hadrons
(4,170 posts)the source is an Onion-like satire ... and like the Onion, its spot-on in spirit
UTUSN
(70,680 posts)HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)Well, just what did they think would happen when they decided Citizens United. The Supreme Court allowed this to happen. Other wealthy people will hold similar auditions of candidates. States could save a lot of money by cancelling primary elections and caucuses and just go with the winners of the Billionaires' selections. (sarcasm intended) Yeah Citizens United!!!