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Public Policy Polling, spurred on by Stephen Colbert's efforts to sponsor the South Carolina primary, as well as attempts to get on the ballot and get behind a referendum about, whether corporations are people or only people ...
?Our team at PPP,? their release reads, ?decided if he couldn?t get all that stuff on the actual ballot, we could at least poll it for him.?
So PPP rounded up 1,112 likely Republican primary voters, and found that Colbert is polling at 5%, putting him in sixth place, ahead of Jon Huntsman (4%).
More surprisingly, however, is that Colbert only has a 17% favorability rating, with 41% finding him ?unfavorable,? and 42% ?not sure.? The poll, conducted between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, did turn up some good news for the Comedy Central host: 67% of those responding believe that ?only people are people? (while 33% believe ?corporations are people?).
Buzzwords like "corporate personhood" sounds great and pulls at emotional heartstrings that stirs up a base of people to dull to look into the ramifications of restricting any speech. Especially political speech.
I'm also thankful that outright bribery has been euphemistically called "speech," and also that vast majorities of the electorate oppose the CU decision.
I'm glad that if Michael Moore decides to put out one his his multi million dollar corporate mockumentaries before an election, that the government can't stop him.
I'm pretty sure that Michael Moore's movies aren't direct or indirect political contributions. I think that the original case, which was about a movie about Hilary, was a perfectly good example of protected speech.
But when the dishonest corporate lawyer who is currently Chief Justice told the lawyers to re-argue the case to flood elections with corporate bribes, he was advocating for fascism.
The case overturned centuries of legal precedent, would have been offensive to Madison and Jefferson and is a perfect example of an activist court.
"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe..
in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."
The people will have their say on this, or the decision will be reversed. In the meantime, I hope that the corporate floozies on the right marry themselves to this decision with all of their might.
The reason CU was overturned is because the language would prevent documentaries criticizing or endorsing a politician as "political advertising" and campaigning 60 days before an election.
A complaint was filed for Fahrenheit 911 to the FEC, and in Citizens United's case they were prevented from releasing the Hillary documentary.
If you don't see what's dangerous about government deciding who can or can not exercise political free speech, I don't know what to say.
"If you don't see what's dangerous about government deciding who can or can not exercise political free speech, I don't know what to say."
Corporations are not people, they are not "whoes." A corporation is not a "he" or a "she," a corporation is an "it." Corporations are entities that exist because of a government charter. The claim that corporations are people for the purposes of the 1A flies in the face of common sense, which is why so many people are revolted by your insane position.
That's interesting since he has a far more conservative record than Romney. The difference between Huntsman and the rest of the GOP field is that he sounds rational in most of his arguments. The appearance of sanity makes him less scary than the others.
That's about 5 times better than Rick Perry did in New Hampshire! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Colbert is beating Huntsmann? That alone is enough for Huntsmann to drop out. Why do these egomaniacs stay in it if they have absolutely no chance of winning?
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