COMMENTARY | Michael Savage is offering Republican candidate Newt Gingrich $1 million to drop out of the race. On his website, the Home of the Savage Nation, the right-wing radio host posted his indictment against Gingrich in detail. In a nutshell, talk radio's Adonis refers to Gingrich as "a fat, old, white man."
Not very classy, you say? NewsMax outlines that -- as recently as September -- Savage threw in his lot with Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Not fat and old, Perry is still a white man. (Age and girth must irk Savage.)
Throwing money at politics in an effort to buy a victory is old news. George Soros is on the other side of the political equation and, as outlined in 2005 by the National Review, committed $20 million to America Coming Together, an organization devoted to get George W. Bush out of the White House by hook or by crook.
With sizable financial donations come extensive input rights on direction, Soros failed to recreate America in his own image. Still, his involvement highlighted what is wrong with politics: Special interest money and the politicians who lap it up.
In the City Journal's 2010 expose "The Beholden State," Steven Malanga highlights how the public employee unions have put a stranglehold on California politics. A contribution here, a grassroots campaign there, and, if the politician balks at playing ball, the not-so-veiled threat that "if you don't back our program, we'll get you out of office."
I live in the state that is to the U.S. what Greece was to the European Union: baggage. At this time, Gov. Jerry Brown, though in bed with unions, has attempted to break away from the status quo and at least try to make some changes.
It is here that we go full circle. Savage, Soros and the labor unions are throwing money at American politics for hope and change. Politicians understand the dollar bill language and play ball. Left out of the equation is the taxpayer who does not have millions of dollars to contribute to a change that he can believe in.
This is why, at the end of the day and in the aftermath of the elections, the left and the right look remarkably alike: Beholden, bought and paid-for politicians.
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