Examiner: Obama’s best hope for reelection is destroying GOP nominee
Hugh Hewitt writes about President Obama using the decision he excoriated in 2010 for the 2012 elections in the Examiner:
When President Obama broke with long-standing tradition and blasted the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United even as members of the court sat before him at the 2010 State of the Union address, he was giving voice to the collective anxiety of the Democratic Party over a suddenly level political playing field.
In the decision’s aftermath, the unions lost an enormous advantage in fundraising and campaign spending in that all individuals and organizations – including corporations – were suddenly entitled to spend on political messages any amount those individuals and organizations deemed wise. The president was angry.
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However, chances are today he is very, very thankful for Citizens United as Campaign 2012 gets underway.
We are entering the first campaign in which the full effects of Citizens United will be felt, and Republican voters should be considering not just who can raise the most money or be the beneficiary of the most independent expenditures, but who is best positioned to survive the coming deluge of independently-funded politics of personal destruction.
For although the president lambasted the court for returning the operation of the First Amendment to its original intent of protecting political speech, he now may well be celebrating the decision for empowering the best hope he has of re-election: the demonization and destruction of his GOP opponent. …