A Defense Of Big Money In Politics

Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Mon, 01/16/2012 - 5:40pm

Sheldon Adelson is supposedly a bad man. The gambling mogul gave $5 million to a Newt Gingrich-loving super PAC and this enabled Gingrich to maul Mitt Romney — a touch of opinion here — who had it coming anyway. Adelson is a good friend of Gingrich and a major player in Israeli politics.

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