Liberals Opposing an Idea on Principle? Is This a Joke?

The Tallahassee Democrat today is running a column from Los Angeles Times writer Doyle McManus about the allegedly pernicious effect of too much money -- that's how libs refer to that thing the rest of us call "free speech" -- in American politics.

It contains this unintentional, I'm sure, howler of a line.

"Wealthy Americans are popping up all over to fund the new super-PACs, including liberals who might have been expected to oppose the idea on principle."

Curious, really, to wonder exactly who might have expect liberals to oppose the idea "on principle." Mr. McManus, I guess, or so he would purport. But, really, who thinks in 2012 America that liberals will oppose -- or support -- anything on principle? Since the Obama campaign of 2008 threw out the idea of limiting itself to public financing with not a whimper from our liberal-left compatriots, to the Obama campaign of 2012 suddenly embracing the idea of super-PAC financing, does anyone seriously think that principles matter to libs when it comes to money?

Raise your hand if you're one of them.

I thought so.