Which is the Wright way?The Supreme court asserts that Super PACs are legal. The rich, or people who control rich, can lay their money where their principles lie and do it with as much money as they wish.
However the PACs must remain independent. The candidate must not influence the PACs, or they would, as they say not be independent, but dependent. It is semantic nonsense to me. Today's events are a prime example.
Recently, a Romney PAC announced a $10 million smear program linking Obama to the nefarious Reverend Wright. It is old news regurgitated and reformatted to suit a political campaign mired in a vacuum. Romney announced that the Wright plan is not a good idea. He said it just isn't right?
Interesting? How did Romney know? Apparently everyone knew because national news agencies had copies of the plan. Ergo, PAC cancels ad campaign. The situation could have not been more connected if Romney had sent a text message to the PAC president requesting the campaign be canceled.
The PAC could have emailed Romney with the plan, but the more covert circuitous route was just as effective. It also complied with the literal language, if not the spirit, of the Supreme Court decision that enables the rich to finance principles.
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