Free Market Conservatives

Apparently the free market is only free for conservatives, at least judging from these quotes about George Soros' bid to buy the Washington Nationals:

Earlier this month, Soros joined an ownership bid being led by entrepreneur Jonathan Ledecky. Their group is one of more than a half-dozen angling to take over the Nats, who are currently owned by Major League Baseball.

In addition to being a well-known currency speculator and philanthropist, Soros is also known in political circles for having pumped more than $20 million in the last cycle into groups seeking to unseat President Bush and elect Democrats.

While the Soros-Ledecky group is not seen as the frontrunner to win the bidding for the Nationals, who should be awarded to their new owner at the end of the 2005 season, the very prospect that Soros could have a stake in the team is enough to irritate Congressional Republicans.

"I think Major League Baseball understands the stakes," said Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis (R), the Northern Virginia lawmaker who recently convened high-profile steroid hearings. "I don't think they want to get involved in a political fight."

Davis, whose panel also oversees District of Columbia issues, said that if a Soros sale went through, "I don't think it's the Nats that get hurt. I think it's Major League Baseball that gets hurt. They enjoy all sorts of exemptions" from anti-trust laws.

This isn't even politics, really, it's personal. Soros used his money to try to unseat Bush and Republicans are pissed off about it, and now they want to make it hard for him to do business. That's some petty shakedown kind of stuff. Apparently when the Richard Mellon Scaifes and the Olins and the Kochs of the world pump millions into GOP and RNC coffers it comes down from the sky like magic. They're not INTENTIONALLY trying to defeat Democrats. Perish the thought.

Not to mention the fact that it's hard to argue that as a partisan Democrat, George Soros shouldn't be allowed to own a baseball team, when the SITTING REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT used to own the Texas Rangers.

Hate George Soros, slander him even, attempt to beat him with your own candidates. I have no problem with that. When you try to deliberately mess up his business, you've gone too far.