Kasz216 said: It doesn't seem like there is any tangiable effect you can point excess campaign funding had. Hell, it was an outright disaster for Romney despite him having a 2-3 to one Super Pac Spending advantage.
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No that isn't at all proof of any fact.
The fact of the matter is that SuperPACs raised the majority of funds used to elect Romney. The Romney campaign and the Republican party actually had little to contribute. By comparison, the Obama campaign raised the majority of its funds, with a few SuperPACs contributing.
Had the Supreme Court ruled against Citizens United, there would have been a lot less money in the campaign. There would have been far fewer negative ads, and more issue oriented ads.
Had Romney had more integrity with his positions, had he been more relatable and therefore more likeable, he could have won the election and the Citizens United ruling would have been a major factor.
Bottom line, Citizens United is wrong because corporations are not people. The founding fathers, save a few Federalists, would have stood in opposition to it. Especially Jefferson. Jefferson believed, and wrote as much, that the power of the government was in the hands of the individual. Not corporations or any other type of entity. For someone who suggests themselves to be strict Constitutionalists like a few of the Supreme Court Justices, to assume a corporation has the same rights as an individual when Jefferson himself in writing said the exact opposite and opposed such inclinations of early legislators, simply boggles the mind.
We need a Constitutional amendment defining to whom the rights of the Constitution applies to. If you believe in inalienable rights, then you believe our rights have been endowed to us by a divine creator. I don't recall God pulling a rib from Adam and making a corporation. I'm pretty sure that's NOT in Genesis. But he made made and woman, and a corporation is neither.