Thomas Edsall picks up the story of Sheldon Adelson, a major donor to the election campaigns of Mitt Romney and other Republicans. In addition to the issues that I have blogged about before, Edsall points out that Mormonism, the religion Mitt Romney follows, has a stated position against gambling, which is the source of Adelson's lucre.
And this is as good a place as any to recall that Sheldon Adelson had financially supported Newt Gingrich against Mitt Romney in the Republican primaries. In particular, Adelson paid for "When Mitt Romney Came to Town," an anti-Romney film.
Update, August 17, 2012: An editorial in The New York Times laments Paul Ryan's genuflection at the court of Sheldon Adelson, and provides a good summary of the various investigations into Adelson's gambling empire. Forget Democrats and their supporters, I am surprised that Republicans have so far been so quiet and unquestioning about their candidate's wooing of a guy like Adelson.
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