After losing so many battles to conservatives (the 2000 presidential election, the 2002 congressional elections, the 2004 presidential election), George Soros finally hit upon a winning strategy. He stopped giving his money directly to political candidates and put it all into getting the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law passed. McCain played his usual anti-conservative maverick and Bush, though warned, signed it into law. Bush was counting on the US Supreme Court's being rational and deciding that McCain-Feingold was unconstitutional. Bush should have known you can't count on the Supremes to be rational on a particular issue on a particular day.
And thus it is that most everybody's money is kept out of politics but George Soros's billions, and now, through financing the 527 groups that spray up overnight (one suspects Soros had those groups planned and ready to go), Soros has controlled the primaries of both parties, getting two far-left candidates to the fore in the Democratic Party and pushing McCain to victory in the Republican Party.
One notes that, having endorsed McCain over the past few weeks, the mainstream media has now, predictably, turned the proverbial 180 degrees and has now begun its attacks on him. One notes that the very organizations such as MoveOn.org and other Soros-sponsored groups that McCain-Feingold spawned, that owe their very existence to McCain, have now begun building 20 million dollar war chests to run against him. McCain is being hoist by his own petard, as the old cliche goes.
If McCain were smart and honest enough, he would campaign on repealing McCain-Feingold, thus helping garner some conservative support for his candidacy. But then again, if he were smart and honest enough, he wouldn't have supported McCain-Feingold in the first place!
McCain, in response to criticism of the McCain-Feingold bill, always repeats the mantra "Does anybody think there is too much money in politics?" But that's not the point. There is still bushels of money in politics. The point is that now the great majority of the money in politics belongs to George Soros and the Hollywood mega-buck contributors. The major influence on American politics is George Soros and the mainstream media. I can't believe that McCain really planned on that. It is one of those unintended (by McCain, definitely intended by Soros) results of badly conceived legislation.
But one does have to admire his machiavellian cleverness. It's not enough to have billions of dollars. One must spend it on the proper politicians to become de facto emperor.
One gets an idea of his magnanimity and loyalty by noting that, though owing much to McCain, he's bent upon trashing him. We can expect more such behavior, I suspect.
I wonder if we will like a world run by George Soros? Somehow I don't think so. We will likely get change all right, but not change that we will like.
