Time to gird your loins my friends, the looming political battle will certainly prove to be the fiercest one yet!

Courtesy of The New York Times:

For the first time, this campaign will be dominated by political action committees that exist solely to promote specific candidates. While a candidate’s campaign is limited to $2,500 per election from each donor, the PACs can collect unlimited amounts, and they plan to. Mr. Perry’s super PAC, “Make Us Great Again,” plans to collect $55 million. Mitt Romney’s, “Restore Our Future,” already has $12.3 million. President Obama’s group of PACs, “Priorities USA,” hopes to raise more than $100 million. (Many of the PACs also have affiliates designed to collect secret contributions.) 

Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision nearly two years ago, the campaign finance system has become polluted with ideological groups collecting unlimited donations from corporations, unions and wealthy individuals. Up to now, most of those groups have run attack ads or supported groups of party candidates, a major factor in the 2010 midterms. A PAC created solely for a single candidate had been seen as violating the federal law requiring that the PAC be independent from the candidate’s campaign. 

This year, thanks to inaction by the Federal Election Commission, even that legal nicety has been thrown out.

I am often asked why I choose to act as cheerleader for this President, and refuse to criticize even those policy decisions which run completely against my personal philosophies. And the reason is simple.

Because I have already chosen the side on which I plan to do battle.

When I look at the array of incompetent idiots, partisan terrorists, and evil corporate whores that make up the current crop of Republican Presidential hopefuls, there is not one ounce of doubt as to where my allegiances lie. However  I also know where the majority of the corporate money will be spent, and it WON'T be on Barack Obama.

In my estimation this political season could possibly be the nastiest, most underhanded partisan battle this country has seen in decades, and I believe that smaller news sites, and blogs like mine, will be on the front line in making sure that real information about the accomplishments of this administration, and the hope for the future, is disseminated to the public at large.

Do I agree with every decision this President has made? Not hardly.

Is there anybody out there that I think could do a better job? Absolutely not.

If you disagree with me, just take a moment to imagine Rick Perry as the next President. Or Newt Gingrich.  Or Mitt "What should my position be today?" Romney.  Or, heaven help us, Michele "Batshit crazy" Bachmann.

This is not just a matter of keeping the White House in the hands of the Democrats, this is about keeping it OUT of the hands of some of the craziest, most unhinged people in the country.

So yes, I am going to promote this President like my life, and the life of my child, depended on it.

Because you know, it just might.