What happens when you donate to the President’s opposition? The usual answer would be, “Nothing.” But in the new era of Hope and Change, supporters of the President’s opposition should keep a wary eye. Frank VanderSloot can tell you all about it.
VanderSloot gave a pro-Romney super PAC “Restore the Future” a million dollars last year. Then in April, he was identified along with seven other donors on an Obama campaign website as “wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records.” Then, the inevitable: He received the initial audit notice from the IRS last month. Two weeks later, he got one from the Labor Department. His reaction?
“It seems coincidental, but who knows? The problem is the president made the list, and 61 days later I get the first letter. One has to ask: Is the fact I’m being shot at the result of having a target on my back? … Was the list made with that intent?”
Of course the President’s campaign will say they made the list to provide transparency. And that they can’t be held responsible for what others did with the information. And surely it’s a coincidence. And give Obama the benefit of the doubt.
So given this reality, if you had a million dollars that you considered giving to Romney, wouldn’t you think twice? I mean, I gave him a measly hundred bucks and I’m wondering when the mailer will go to my neighbors. Seriously. How long will it take for them to make me regret it?
And so intimidation becomes a hallmark of Presidential elections. How Progressive.
Simultaneously, Jacob Weisberg lectures:
If I hear one more person accuse the Obama campaign of practicing “Chicago-style politics,” I’m gonna kick all his nephews off the park-district payroll. I’m gonna send some precinct captains over to straighten him out.
Mitt Romney and his surrogates don’t understand what Chicago-style politics means. No one seems to have told them that it’s been gone for 25 years. And they don’t get that Barack Obama, in his Chicago days, never had anything to do with it.
Gone for 25 years? I think Weisberg confused the difference between “Chicago style politics” and “The American Dream.” I confuse those two, also. They’re so similar…
Tongue in cheek aside, I’d venture a guess that today’s IRS Agents are just as real and scary as Daly’s precinct Captains of yesteryear, given the serious damage they can inflict on your future with audits, investigations, penalties and liens. And with the IRS becoming the de facto enforcement arm for ObamaCare, they’re more powerful than ever, akin to a new National Police Force.
meh. America, Amerika… What’s the difference, right?
Weisburg was telling the truth and sending thugs to straighten people out sounds like the town I remember. Chicago has been corrupt for years. The thing is though, obama fit right in. He didn’t even have to change his style. I left Chicago about 40 years ago because of the palpable hatred between the races and the fact that the city and many of its residents were so corrupt that it seemed like everybody who could was on the take or had his own racket or angle.
Any city dumb enough to keep voting Democrats into power decade after decade deserves
exactly what they are getting. I left and never looked back.