FOX News Sunday: Panel Plus
January 15, 2012
Brit Hume, Kirsten Powers, Bill Kristol, and Juan Williams talk about how super PACs are dominating how politics turn out. Recent ads by super PACs that are in support of Gingrich have run nasty things that are inaccurate about Romney and Gingrich supposedly is telling them to take the stuff that is untrue out. Is he only doing that because he doesn’t want his reputation to get even worse? He is friends with Rick Tyler that is running the super PAC, so they could be working together, but according to Hume, that is against the law. Or is Gingrich purely concerned with not having a bad reputation because of his super PAC. Powers talks about how super PACs allow the candidate to have some sort of attacks on other candidates without being blamed for it themselves. She sees them as “destructive” and says that they don’t really add to the debate. Democrats complain about it now, but when the time comes, they are going to rely on the super PACs as well. Kristol believes that super PACs were not the “best thing that happened in politics”. He assumed that super PACs would make things turn out differently in the primaries, but from what it is at this point, it seems that the person who raises the most money and wins the first few primaries (Romney in this case), will end up being the Republican candidate. He assumed that because super PACs can contribute as much money as they want to, that the candidates who don’t have as much, such as Gingrich and Santorum, will end up getting higher up. This was not the case however. Williams questions whether this is purely democratic, but also refutes this by establishing that contributing money is free speech. super PACs seem like they have a very big impact on how things turn out and the rich primarily make the super PACs. The rich have a big influence on politics and this can be for the good or it could possibly corrupt political leaders into doing whatever the rich say so they can keep on running, but having to do them favors after.
Even if Romney will be elected and has a lot of money backing him, is it anything compared to what Obama will have for the general election anyway? Let’s take this one step at a time.
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