Why fight Super-PACs? They may do it for us

Winning Our Future PAC, a Super PAC supporter of Newt Gingrich, may win our future free of Super PACs. Sheldon Abelson have given over five million dollars to Winning our Future. As a casino owner, he doesn't seem to place his bets well. So far Newt Gingrich has incurred the wrath of the other candidates for the Republican nomination and received less than 40,000 votes. That's $125 per vote; not a very good bargain. See "Kamikaze Gingrich, on the loose in South Carolina", Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 2012-01-11, republished as "Gingrich takes the big money", Star Tribune, 2012-01-13.
His relentless attacks on Mitt Romney may also help re-elect Barack Obama. If so, Republicans may really rethink their support of money as speech. Gosh, if I have enough money to put a loud-speaker truck on every corner and blast my message so loud that nobody can have any conversation, would shutting down my loud-speakers take away my free-speech rights. Far-fetched. What about being the highest bidder for so much television time that nobody can even get a second of air-time? Is that a free-speech right?

But getting back to the real world of individual citizens, there are steps we can do to halt Super-PACs.

1) Don't watch TV. This is the easiest way to ignore Super-PACs

2) Show up and vote

3) Read newspapers and magazines. You can easily skip over pages you don't like.

4) Vote what you believe; ignore poll results

5) Talk politics with friends. Don't be passive about voting.

6) Vote in every election.

7) In case I didn't mention it, Vote! It's your patriotic duty.