Here's Murray talking on FOX Business News about fundraising and its political implications. Someone asks if it has gotten harder to raise money given the country's economic problems. Sabrin, echoing Peter Schiff and others, points out that the reason people still give money is because they know that if the right people are elected and the government is strictly limited, only economic prosperity will follow. Donations are seen by many to be an investment.
Though if you're more cynical, here's Mencken:
Every election is a sort of advance auction of stolen goods.
