Actually anti-union people donated a lot of money to Obama too, more than they did to John McCain. And he ran on a campaign of raising their taxes! Man, that's pure genius! Its like me becoming the president of the NRA by saying I hate guns!
You're absolutely right about labor giving a lot of money to Obama and Democrats in general, I'm not arguing with you. But you are only looking at things from one side of the coin. Corporations typically have no loyalty. They will support whoever they think can benefit them most. And frankly, businesses didn't do as great as you would expect under a Republican administration considering how much favoritism they were given. Maybe businesses realized that it can actually HURT them if they are just left to run wild and do as they please. They were ready for change too.
Obama didn't even have to court them. They came running to him. And frankly you are completely ignoring how loyal both Democrats and Republicans are to the party itself and its ideology. Those are just the things they genuinely believe. I'm not faulting them for that. Its good to have strong beliefs (obviously with good reasons mixed in for those beliefs). I don't even believe that the hardest core Republicans would start supporting labor if labor started throwing money at them. Frankly, people in Washington may be a bit crazy, but they typically do believe pretty strongly in their ideals, for better or for worse.
Why do you think that it is so rare that the party's flip flop on issues? Its because the people in those parties actually do believe in those issues. Fundraising is an extremely important part of politicking, but most people don't get involved in politics unless they actually do have a pretty good idea of what their stand on the issues is. Your underestimating the degree to which people personally identify with the issues their parties stand on.
Why do you think we are all in here debating abortion like crazy even though probably no one has been convinced to change their mind? Its because its something we actually believe in. If pro-choice people offered you $10,000 to be pro-choice, would you change? I know I wouldn't change to pro-life for that. Its just not who I am.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
