How to spot an ideologue

This column in today's paper is a great illustration, really.  If you're all worked up about how the Koch Brothers may spend hundreds of millions on the election with the possible result of Mitt Romney rewarding his benefactors, but not concerned that George Soros and Hollywood will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the election with the possible result of Barack Hussein Blagojevich Khalidi Jackson Soetoro Ayers Rezko Wright Pfleger Obama rewarding his benefactors, or vice versa, you may be an unthinking ideologue.

Reality is, of course, that the reason campaign spending is so high is because government spending and regulatory activity is so high--there is simply too much to gain from well deployed bribes electoral activity for the system to be clean.  But I don't know that we'll see either side moving strongly to a strong platform of cutting everything that is not per Adam Smith a central responsibility of government, sad to say.