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Twenty-three hundred
Flame on!*
So I was reading Kos yesterday, where the Great Orange Satan was giving it to Obama - or not giving it, as it happens - for having thrown the inarticulate but essentially correct Wes Clark under the bus. Kos said that he had been about to max out on campaign donations to Obama - twenty-three hundred dollars - but put his wallet right back in his pocket so far as Obama was concerned (that is, he figured he’d use the largesse on the Orange to Blue candidates).
Unlike a number of dissenting Kossacks, I’m down with Markos’ choice and his reasons for it. Why reward bad behavior, indeed? But that’s not what this post is about.
Rather, I’m thinking about twenty-three hundred dollars. That’s the max-out number, and some people certainly give it. I, on the other hand, certainly don’t. The very idea is laughable to me. It’s a case of giving what one can afford, of course, but…good Christ in a sidecar, that’s a lot of kitty litter.
My question(s) to the readership: Have you ever given that much to a campaign? Would you consider it?
*The Photoshopped (maybe??) image of Markos has nothing to do with my post, except clever DKossian Lava20 posted it in the thread there, and I just had to have it.
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If I were to give that much to a campaign, it would have to be chump change to me. Right now a big contribution to anything is $50, so let’s see (pulls up calculator), at that rate I’d have to be making a minimum of $2,070,000 to see $2300 as a comfy donation.
When that day comes, I’ll be happy to hand over $2300.
Ummm…. well… I first gave during the Kerry campaign -while not holding a great deal of faith in him at the time.
I’ve given significantly more to Obama but nowhere near the ‘max.’ I suspect I will give more in the future.
It’s not that the maximum amount per primary or general election is new to me so much as it really struck me, for some reason, to see it in print (or pixels, rather). Weird.
Donations mean different things to different people, I know, and relative ability to pay is just one aspect of that meaning.
Of course, I could just be feeling the money pinch these days. It could be just that simple.