Why Not Hold The Presidential Campaign In Vegas?

Well, why not?
The candidates certainly would fit in just fine.
The Press: "Media Matters"; 
by Jamison Foser
http://mediamatters.org/items/200707210002?f=h_top

"Last week, we noted that NBC senior correspondent Jim Miklaszewski took $30,000 from the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce for a speech in which he reportedly called John Edwards a "loser" for defending his haircut. (Not that it really matters, but Edwards hasn't defended the haircut.)

This is a grossly unethical act on Miklaszewski's part -- taking tens of thousands of dollars from a special interest group for a speech, then attacking a candidate in that speech. Last year, NBC president Rick Kaplan said that company policy prevented anchors from taking speaking fees, and that anyone who violates that policy "would risk being fired." But this is worse than simply taking speaking fees: this is taking a speaking fee from a special interest group that has supported tax cuts for the wealthy -- and attacking a candidate who has proposed eliminating a tax break for the wealthy in order to pay for health care."  

What does one expect from a society like ours, however? Everyone is on the take. Consider the viciousness of the things being said. Why? Because the PAY-OFF is so huge. The present administration has made it very clear that they, the elite, are players at the big crap table and the rest of us run around getting them drinks and food, sometimes giving up our lives so they may continue to play.

And play they will, because the pile of money is so huge. In fact, the pile of money is so huge that they can do nothing but play anymore; they cannot even pretend to see the rest of us and our problems. The attacks made by the Ann Coulters and the Michael Savages are the snarls made by the junk yard dogs fighting over the remnants - the golden detritus and the rich dregs- of a civilization.