Politico.com  reveals today  that a GOP blockbuster of outside groups, inside groups, the Republican National Committee and the Romney Campaign which unite to spend at least $1 billion in the coming months to change the face of Washington.

This flood of campaign cash means that the pressure on Barack Obama is going to be almost unbearable.  One billion is expected to be spent in broadcasting commercials alone.  But is this good for….AMERICA?

In 2012….it IS.  Amazingly, the Democrats are hurting for donations and a strong GOP is the best way to douse the hopes of social liberals praying for control of The Supreme Court, and economic liberals hoping that Obamacare will become a permanent reality.

Take a look at the numbers:

“Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives – including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – plan to spend roughly $1 billion on November’s elections for the White House and control of Congress, according to officials

familiar with the groups’ internal operations.

That total includes previously undisclosed plans for newly aggressive spending by the Koch brothers, who are steering funding to build sophisticated, county-by-county operations in key states. POLITICO has learned that Koch-related organizations plan to spend about $400 million ahead of the 2012 elections – twice what they had been expected to commit.

Just the spending linked to the Koch network is more than the $370 million that John McCain raised for his entire presidential campaign four years ago. And the $1 billion total surpasses the $750 million that Barack Obama, one of the most prolific fundraisers ever, collected for his 2008 campaign.

Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney, proved its potency by spending nearly $50 million in the primaries. Now able to entice big donors with a neck-and-neck general election, the group is likely to meet its new goal of spending $100 million more.

And American Crossroads and the affiliated Crossroads GPS, the groups that Rove and Ed Gillespie helped conceive and raise cash for, are expected to ante up $300 million, giving the two-year-old organization one of the election’s loudest voices.

“The intensity on the right is white-hot,” said Steven Law, president of American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS. “We just can’t leave anything in the locker room. And there is a greater willingness to cooperate and share information among outside groups on the center-right.”

In targeted states, the groups’ activities will include TV, radio and digital advertising; voter-turnout work; mail and phone appeals; and absentee- and early-ballot drives.

The $1 billion in outside money is in addition to the traditional party apparatus – the Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee – which together intend to raise at least $800 million.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76849.html#ixzz1wOhaORXz

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, May 30, 2012