Opinion: Cubs Owner Invests In Another Loser: Mitt Romney

" Joe Ricketts, the crusty right-wing billionaire whose family owns the Chicago Cubs, spent $855 million  on a team that can’t win in the fall. Now, Ricketts is spending $12 million on a candidate who can’t win in the fall: Mitt Romney.

Ricketts, the TD Ameritrade founder, is so hysterically opposed to Barack Obama that he considered funding an ad campaign re-emphasizing the president’s relationship to his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. That blew up after it was exposed by The New York Times, so instead, Ricketts will buy TV ads featuring disillusioned Obama voters. He’s also supporting the website Why I Changed My Vote, which features testimonials from Americans who supported Obama in 2008, but are switching to Romney this year.

Here’s Jodi Carroll, a registered nurse and mother of triplets from Winfield: "

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