George Will on the Bogus Case Against Super PACs
Washington Post columnist George Will is not impressed by the current liberal outrage about super PACs:
Critics of super PACs — critics who were remarkably reticent in 2004 when George Soros was lavishing his own money on liberal advocacy — often refer to them as "outside groups," much as Southern sheriffs used to denounce civil rights workers as "outside agitators."
Pray tell: Super PACs are outside of what? Is the political process a private club with the parties and candidates controlling membership?
It might be more wholesome for the speech-financing money that is flowing to super PACs to go instead to the parties and candidates' campaigns. But the very liberals who are horrified by super PACs (other than Barack Obama's) have celebrated the laws that place unreasonable restrictions on such giving.
Read the whole thing here. For three reasons not to get worked up over super PACs, check out the video below.
