Posted on 08/02/2008 2:00:33 PM PDT by average american student
If you are not yet alarmed and outraged by radical Republican John McCain’s “bipartisan” campaign finance “reform” package, which is in no way bipartisan, Monday’s revelation from the American Conservative Union Foundation (ACU) should put an end to your complacency.
In its latest report, “Who’s Buying Campaign Finance Reform?” (1) the ACU unveils the secret that some conservatives have suspected all along: The campaign finance reform ‘movement’ has, contrary to its anti-big money agenda, raised and spent more than $73 million since 1996; has, contrary to its bipartisan claims, been funded by “wealthy Democratic Party soft-money donors, ultra-liberal foundations and Democratic operatives;” and has, contrary to its equality of donations philosophy, received astronomical donations from a few key individuals and foundations.
“There’s too much money in campaign finance reform,” the ACU quips. A few examples of individual contributions:
George Soros contributed $4.7 million to the “movement for reform”; funneled more than $600,000 to Arizonans for Clean Elections (ACE), single-handedly accounting for more than 71 percent of the group’s entire funding; and Soros, and “seven of his wealthiest friends, created their own political committee – the Campaign for a Progressive Future – which funded almost $2 million of political activities in 2000, including $200,000 to the Million Mom PAC.”
Steven T. Kirsch, soft-money “abolitionist,” contributed $500,000 in soft money to finance campaign finance “reform” groups in 2000, and $1.8 million in independent expenditures against the candidacy of President George W. Bush last year.
“Jerome Kohlberg, who spent more than $400,000 of his own money against the campaign of Republican Senator Jim Bunning, R-Ky., in 1998, also donated $100,000 to the Campaign for America.” He “subsequently bought television ads pleading ‘Let’s get the $100,000 checks out of politics.’ ”
Or how about some of their liberal foundation donors: ...
(Excerpt) Read more at stiffrightjab.com ...
When I noticed Fox News linked into this one today, reading it again, renewed my conviction that we are dealing with anything but a dyed in the wool political conservative who's on our side when it comes to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Sad but true, McCain's interests are elsewhere, and many a leftist foundation has him in its hip pocket.
My initial solution begins with refusing to be fooled again into lending a hand to a Republican Party presidential candidate who will betray us, and undermine whatever remnants of conservatism/true liberalism (classical liberalism) remain among us.
Better to organize and ready the forces to preserve the Constitution during the McCain or Obama presidency. Either way, we'll likely have a constitutional war on our hands that won't say 'quit.'
Yup... We may have to go third party and let Obama win for four years before regrouping. I'm more concerned about getting a grip on congress and senate.
The choice is...
continue to belittle McCain on the differences between us and allow a divide to let Obama get elected OR unite behind McCain, a less than perfect candidate but at least we know who he is. I fully admit that McCain wasn’t my first choice (Romney) but the race is Obama OR McCain. Regardless of who is elected we are going to have to watch them...
I know too many people who are making a stand on principle (and I still respect these people) and saying they just won’t vote for McCain. If we aren’t careful, WE are going to elect Obama...
It is a pure fool who votes in a way to facilitate nObama’s election.
“I fully admit that McCain wasn’t my first choice (Romney) but the race is Obama OR McCain. Regardless of who is elected we are going to have to watch them...”
Absolutely. We can apply leverage with McCain. Obama will shut us out completely.
I can foresee an America a few years now with an economy roaring with home grown energy production, with curbed spending, with moderate choices for the bench, and yes— with a rough immigration fight. That’s McCain.
I can also foresee an America with a ‘misery index’ from hell, with YOUNG leftists in the Supreme Court for the rest of our lives, and with a HOPELESS immigration flood / along with dual citizen voter fraud of unprecedented levels. That’s Obama. The dual citizen voters would crush all hopes of US prosperity and freedom. We would likely get sucked into complete subordination to the UN if Obama is elected.
What’s a disgruntled conservative blogger to do this election?
A: open up the five hundredth “Lesser of Two Evils” should-I-actually-vote-for-that-squish-McCain debate, or
B: Look around for some actual conservatives to back?
You might not find any at the top of the ticket, but the real conservatives are out there, running for Congress all around the country.
One's vote for a particular candidate has no bearing on the aggregate election, especially if the opposing candidate in question does not take the initiative to work for that vote.
You don't have to worry about that. The Bradley Effect is going to take care of Obama. McCain's dream of independents and moderates crossing over to vote for him will materialize, which of course will spell the end of the conservative right.
Winning means nothing if it isn’t about defending principle. This is no “small flaw” in the fabric of McCain - he has betrayed your freedom of speech, intentionally, to serve the left who pays for his unprincipled antics.
This is a man born and bread in the Establishment, who the left wing media WANTED as the Republican Candidate, and has ALWAYS sided with ... who they KNOW if elected (even if they’d be even happier with Obama) will do more havoc on the grass roots of the Republican Party - and thus the country - than Obama ever could.
If Obama wins, conservatives will unite against him, and it will revive the conservative and classical liberal movement in the party and in the country.
If McCain wins, this man owned by the left, will do just as Bush did before him, but perhaps with more openness and zest, dismantle what is left of the best of the “conservative,” “pro-constitutional,” “Judeo-Christian” defending party. And this will be so because it’s called “follow the chief.”
Bush II did it, Bush I did it, Reagan’s second term did it, and Nixon did it.
I remind you, Reagan came to power, a legitimate conservative with powerful leadership skills on a very very conservative set of campaign promises, BECAUSE OF THE VERY LIBERAL (SUPPOSEDLY CLUELESS ... NOT!) PRESIDENT JAMES EARL CARTER.
He botched things up so bad, he betrayed so many of our allies, he so weakened our defense, he taxed us so heavily, etc., that he made it ripe for a Reagan.
That’s my point. And it’s the point many are making.
We don’t need another Bush or worse.
And as someone else said, we need to focus on Congress. The presidency is lost either way.
Just my opinion, though. Maybe you can you have something other than a thems against us (Dems against Republicats) argument. I’m all ears.
You said: One’s vote for a particular candidate has no bearing on the aggregate election..
Unless I am completely missing your point, that is a bizarre statement. One’s vote is one vote that makes up a total vote and certainly does have a bearing on the aggregate.
Now if you were to make the argument that “I live in a solidly blue state that has no chance of giving it’s electoral votes to anyone but nObama” I could understand the argument, even if I don’t agree with the protest vote approach.
who are these true conservatives? i am truly at a loss. even my better half is voting for nobama. she may be right. i will vote 3rd party.
Just a reminder about that valid point.
Bush II made it a policy, especially in 2004, to cut off all election funds to conservative congressional candidates and hand them over to moderates all over the country.
This is just another shot across the bow warning about voting in another establishment man just to say we win against a far left liberal.
If Congress is the key, at least it should be, then keeping a man who has LONG proved himself in the pocket of the left, a man any informed conservative/classical lib NEVER would have wanted for our presidential candidate, is vitally important.
Money does matter. And the whole point of this Campaign Finance Fiasco/Assault on the First Amendment is that McCain did it in the light of day, something he KNEW would silence the political right in the last months of election cycles, and that critical juncture, thus giving the media left even more power to sway the vote come the finish line.
And so, what do we then think he will do with those election funds if elected? Everything in his power to promote true blue through and through conservative constitutionalist congressmen. Not a chance ...
rrrr ... that was “keeping OUT a man”
sorry
I am amazed and flabbergasted at the fact the two such unpalatable candidates are... candidates.
I blame the MSM.
It's the 'little' people inside the bureaucratic machine that does the actual work - the people in the White House who are there year after year, president after president, and those folks in congress and in local governments.
I suspect that an Obambi administration would fall apart very quickly and so become ineffective right away - but McCain's won't and, though he calls himself a Republican, he'll act to effectively pass Democrat and Liberal policies.
But if we fill congress and all local governments with conservatives and sane people we have a much better chance of maintaining order and sanity over all.
There is a reason I have been warning about the supporters Ron Paul attracts.
From anti-semetic NeoNazis at Stormfront and Secular Anarchists to Whorehouse moguls and rabid anti-war Leftists,
the Mob Zombies of Ron Paul are growing in numbers and awash with cash, thanks in measure to the front groups MoveOn.org, Code Pink, Iraqcampaign.org of International Socialist Powerbroker George Soros, who both covertly and openly - is helping to fund and aid the Ron Paul campaign.
Watch McCain shoot up in the polls just before the election. Conservatives will stay home thinking McCain is going to win anyways and Obama will win. Cannot say I blame conservatives for not supporting McCain, he has dome more damage to conservative advancements than Obama (so far).
Look both McCain and Obama are left wing pukes........Obama more so, but McCain will hurt conservatism further also. McCain hates conservatives, you can take that to the bank.
What “leverage” do we have over McCain except our votes?
“What “leverage” do we have over McCain except our votes?”
Congress. The House is re-elected every two years. I admit, McCain was at the bottom of my list, but he’s the only one standing in Obama’s way now.
Secondly, McCain will want our help for his legacy. Of course, there may ultimately be a complete divide between us and him, but what kind of leverage will we have with Obama?
Here’s something to think about:
Saul Alinsky dedicated his book, Rules for Radicals, to Lucifer. “And Obama taught Alinsky methodology.”
“McCain hates conservatives, you can take that to the bank.”
He reportedly says ‘F’ you to a lot of his conservative colleagues. It’s going to be hard to hold my nose, but I will. And if he ends up in the White House, I want him to have the most miserable stay there in presidential history. We should make him feel GLAD to get out of the White House.
If McCain wins, he will be the lead of the Republican party, meaning more-of-the-same RINO liberalism, 10x worse than with Bush. You would rather have the death of the conservative movement than a temporary loss of a presidency? (By the same logic, we can elect a true conservative congress to keep Obama from doing anything crazy.)
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