Megster's Millions

Digby is convinced that Meg Whitman spending $104 million of her own money on her campaign for Governor of California is disastrous.

It's not like we're exactly living in good times here in California. I think this is a deadly strategy. The optics are just terrible and I suspect that subliminally people find it horrific that she's spending like a drunken sailor in the middle of a terrible recession. 

I disagree completely for the simple reason that what Whitman is doing can easily sold as the ultimate Galtie frontier.  What's more glibertarian than using your own fortune to finance your own campaign?  If a Democrat does it, it's the moneyed elite.  If Meg Whitman does it, is she not entitled to the sweat of her own brow?

It's the fact that Meggy here has a hundred million bucks to spend.  She got that money from being CEO of eBay.  That makes her like the smartest Galtie in the world.

Now if she was former CEO of Goldman Sachs, things would be different.  But the media has been talking about Megster's Millions for the entire campaign, and nobody seems to care in California.  She's spending her own money.  That's not a crime unless you're a Democrat.