Citizens United and Eric Cantor
June 23, 2014
The defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Virginia Republican primary shows that liberal attacks on the Citizens United decision regarding campaign financing are all wet. Cantor outspent his opponent 40 to 1 and still lost by 10 percentage points. And I have pointed out before that had Obama spent every dollar in the world on radio, TV, Internet, and billboard advertising for his reelection campaign, I still would never have voted for him.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
Unpayable Military Obligations of the U.S.