Matt Miller's just filled with sober infatuation for New York Republican/billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg, who's taken to masquerading as an "indie." Miller, an archetypal and unabashed toadie, worships wealthy people and people in power. I believe he works for Bloomberg TV as well. He's been telling people that what this country needs now is a rich person to run the show-- not some piddling multimillionaire but someone who is really rich. Funny, my own instinct is that those people should be rounded up and shot before they can do any more damage to society. To each his own. Miller would like to see Bloomberg run for president for a bunch of childish, fatuous reasons not worth repeating.
Most of the biggest self-funders in the latest election cycle-- Florida gangster Rick Scott excluded-- lost their races. Voters are more discerning about the super-wealthy and their self-proclaimed worthiness than Miller (except in Florida). Yesterday's post dealt with the rich bitches-- NutMeg, Carly and Linda McMahon, the wrestler lady from Connecticut-- apparently so that Scott wouldn't muck up the narrative with his win. They all made bundles in business and tried buying their way into the U.S. Senate, a tradition for the stinking rich that goes back to the beginning of time.
Meg Whitman was hardly a household name when she commenced her run. Now she is-- and one that is really disliked. The more TV and radio and internet ads she ran, the more people started detesting her. By the end of the campaign they hated her so much that it was hard to believe that people started saying how they disliked Carly Fiorina even more. Imagine what Whitman could have done to win widespread social approval and admiration with even half of the $143 million she spent on the failed campaign! (She lost by almost a million votes out of seven million cast.) Perhaps if she had deployed $70 million helping the needy, she could have used the other half to win in the following cycle. I guess she was in a rush.
McMahon only spent $50 million of her own and, a real cheapskate, Fiorina only put up $7 million of the money she looted from Hewlett-Packard before she was unceremoniously fired as the worst chief executive of any major company in recent memory. Although the Post insists these three are "savvy," "sharp" and "successful," people who have dealt with them haven't been so kind. But the Post wants to know why each failed so spectacularly despite how absolutely fabulous they insist each is.
rest at http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/11/buying-elections-like-shopping-at-saks.html
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