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Stevie
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I don't like him one bit
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AMOS
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John McCain=John McKerry=John McEdwards.......they make me tired.
Flush all the Johns.
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3rd gen Navy
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I have aired my somewhat less than enthusiastic views on McCain in this forum before. He is not any better than Kerry in my book. Thanks for the excellent link.
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BuffaloJack
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McCain may be a Republican but he's also a Liberal and from his record he has demonstrated that he is too liberal to do anything except compromise; and we all know that compromise is just failure on an installment plan.
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LewWaters
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Don't forget, in the 2004 campaign, it was McCain who automatically labeled the Swift Vets ads as "dishonest and dishonorable" before he even looked into any of the charges and called upon Bush to condemn the SBVT ads while turning a blind eye to anti-Bush ads from the left.
If memory serves, it was both McCain and Kerry who eventually all but buried the POW/MIA issue together to grant Viet Nam the trading status Clinton bestowed upon them.
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FreeFall
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| He's a Rino, no more Rinos! |
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I don't know who the heck is responding to polls showing McCain as the current GOP front-runner. His name on the McCain/Feingold assault on free speech should be enough to send him back to Arizona...(emphasis mine)
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Campaign Finance: The FEC has slapped several activist organizations on the wrist for practicing the wrong kind of political speech — proving once again that laws to keep money out of politics never work.
Fining the likes of leftist tycoon George Soros $150,000 is about as effective as a sponge against a tsunami. Yet that's the punishment the Federal Elections Commission has doled out against Soros-funded MoveOn.org for illicitly running $14 million in ads blasting President Bush in the 2004 campaign.
The agency fined the Swift Boat Veterans group twice as much for exposing the exaggerated war record of the president's Democratic adversary that year, John Kerry. Several other groups were also penalized for overtly partisan activities.
These groups are classified as "527s" by the tax code, "independent" organizations that are not supposed to support parties or candidates. As such, there are no limits to the cash they can raise and spend in delivering messages to the public on various issues.
After the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform of 2002 claimed it had put an end to "soft money" for candidates and parties, a lot of loophole-minded lawyers on both sides of the aisle found the 527 committees irresistibly attractive.
Result: Nearly $1 billion from corporations and wealthy individuals has ended up in the hands of such clearinghouses in the past two election cycles.
And when the 527s refuse to behave themselves? When they run ads supporting or opposing a candidate? The FEC bureaucracy spends years ruminating, then — with the election long since over — imposes a fine that for those intent on influencing politics amounts to an acceptable cost of doing business.
Like every other attempt to eradicate filthy lucre from the politics of a free society, McCain-Feingold has failed. But as it has failed, this misguided law has also suppressed the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech of Americans at the very time when it is most crucial: the two months prior to a general election.
During that period "issue ads" are banned from the airwaves — an unconscionable outrage in a free country. It is, as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has called it, "a law that cuts to the heart of what the First Amendment is meant to protect: the right to criticize the government."
The Watergate era reforms enacting contribution and expenditure limits on campaigns, like McCain-Feingold, failed resoundingly in removing money from politics. Cash instead became disguised as shrewd lawyers squirreled their way around the restrictions by using political action committees and other exotic entities.
There's a simple and sensible solution to it all: freedom and transparency. Get rid of the caps on direct contributions to campaigns, but require full and immediate disclosure. That way, when Soros spends tens of millions of dollars trying to buy the White House, everyone knows it and it becomes a campaign issue.
The naive, futile alternative is to keep enacting "reforms" that never reform.
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