QUOTE: Gregg Easterbrook points out a potential problem with Howard Dean's donors:
"But having catered to the well-off, mainly on tax policy, Bush is relatively free to do as he wishes on other issues, assured that his campaign treasure chest will be full. This is, in campaign-finance terms, the One Big Sell-Out theory. Supposedly, Senator Robert Kerr of Oklahoma once said that the fact that he was totally sold out to and financed by the Kerr-McGee Corporation left him free to vote his conscience on everything else.
To draw lots and lots of small contributions, on the other hand, won't Dean have to promise everything to everybody?"
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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