Marathon Pundit: $40 million left wing attack by Soros and friends against McCain

Thursday, April 10, 2008

$40 million left wing attack by Soros and friends against McCain

Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have made "shipping jobs overseas" as one of the rallying cries of what is wrong with America from the liberal side of things, that is.

I find it pretty ironic however that both candidates have been silent over the years over the increasing influence of currency speculator and predatory capitalist George Soros on the Democratic Party.

Soros first made a name for himself in the political world by contributing to various far-left causes beginning in the 1990s.

However, where Soros has probably made most of his billions was through the Quantum Group, which he established in 1973. It has its offices in New York, but is based in the Netherlands Antilles and has no American members on its board, which puts Quantum outside the purview of the Securities Exchange Commission. Operating in the Caribbean allows Soros to avoid paying taxes in the country whose elections he tries to influence.

Odd, but you never hear about the Democrats complaining about that.

It's because Soros is bankrolling the dreams and schemes of the far-left.

From Politico:

Wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Sen. John McCain. And it will be led by David Brock, the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist.

The planned campaign is the product of a shakeup in the top ranks of the struggling independent Democratic groups. Brock, now best known as the ex-conservative founder of the liberal group Media Matters, last month quietly assumed the chairmanship of what's expected to be the main vehicle for independent Democratic attacks on McCain, now called Progressive Media USA.

The move comes after the groups that had been expected to spearhead attacks on McCain — the Fund for America and Progressive Media USA's previous incarnation, the Campaign to Defend America — failed to raise the money needed to dent McCain's armor.

Enter Soros:

But after a dinner Tuesday night at the Manhattan apartment of liberal megadonor George Soros, at which Brock and consultant Paul Begala laid out the group's plans, Brock said his group now has commitments worth $7.5 million — almost twice what the Fund for America is expected to report raising in the first quarter of this year. He said the group would begin running ads before it meets its $40 million goal.