October 16, 2010 10:33 PM UTC

Freud's Believe It or Not

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• by: JO

Absentee ballot delivered by USPS. Same day, kindly soul slips package of candidate leaflets under the front doormat.

Paper enclosing the leaflets, “2010 Voter Guide,” lists party recommendations for issues and the party’s nominees for state senate, state house of representatives, governor, attorney general, CU regents, and county officials.

BUT, for “National Races,” it says (and still says under microscopic examination and after repeated readings):

“Campaign finance rules prohibit listing the candidates for National office.”

What? A political party is barred from listing les noms of its naminees for federal office???

Probesity Incorporated — distributor of high-fructose carbonated beverages on six continents, dues-paying-plus member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — is a “person” that can exercise First Amendment rights to name its choice of candidates, but the Utopia County Political Party of Colorado is barred from doing so?

Is this possible? Have the inmates not only seized the asylum but also enacted laws declaring everyone else to be confined to their cells 24×7?

Let me say it again: corporations have the right to say who they prefer for federal office; political parties do not. Reason: “campaign finance laws.”

Comrades! Help me out here. What am I missing?