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Posted on 02/19/2012 7:16:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Senator John McCain appeared on This Week today from Afghanistan, but before getting onto matters of foreign policy, he weighed in on the Republican contest going on in the United States and continued to speak out forcefully on an issue that has been part of his political identity for over a decade: campaign finance reform. McCain has not been the biggest fan of Super PACs, and McCain today blasted the Supreme Court for its decision in the Citizens United case two years ago.
When Jake Tapper asked McCain about how the GOP’s divisive contest may end up handing the election to President Obama, McCain admitted he was concerned about that possibility, but explained that despite all the negativity in the race, it really boils down to the influence of Super PACs.
“I’ve been in very tough campaigns. I don’t think I’ve seen one that was as personal and as characterized by so many attacks as these are. And, quite frankly, one of the reasons is the Super PACs. And why do we have the Super PACs? Because of the ignorance and naïvete of the United States Supreme Court in the Citizens United campaign.”
Watch the video below, courtesy of ABC:
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No, I prefer free speech.
title should be ‘Long time deranged Senator insults a separate but equal branch of the US Government’.
Super PACs are the only way a normal person can be part of the political advertising discussion. Without them, only candidates’ campaigns and the networks can speak.
You’ll see Super PACS in 2012 come out with ads and if those are ads you want folks to see, you will be able to contribute to those ads being run.
Its not perfect, and many of the Super PAC ads are awful, but it’s better than controlled speech by creeps like McCain.
McCain need not worry about camopaign finance, His
McCain- Feingold bill has worked out so well. /s/
Poor washed up, mentally challenged, RHINO McCain thinks his personal vision of right and wrong trumps the First Amendment.
Perhaps if McLame wasn’t such an enemy to the 1st Amendment in the first place he might have been president.
It’s still haunting him, losing to a Marxist and he thinks the problem is words, not deeds.
When is he going to go away? When?
What does he think about George Soros, Peter Lewis, Wafrrfen Buffett, Bill Gates, AFL-CIO and leftwing NGO’s funded by government getting out the cash for the left??
He probably has no problem with that
I don’t think it haunts him. Weeks before that election he was talking up Obama!
And why do we have the Super PACs? Because of the ignorance and naïvete of the United States Supreme Court in the Citizens United campaign.No, McCaink, you lying jackoff -- the reason we have Super PACs is McCain-Feingold. If there were no law which pretended to reform campaign finance, which is what McCain-Feingold pretends to do, Super PACs wouldn't be around. Or rather, they'd STILL be around, because they were around before McCain-Feingold, which doesn't address them one iota. What a touch-hole he is.
It is getting time to expel this dwarfish, bile spewing, rabid, chimpanzee from the {s}enate and put him over in St. E’s. He has now lost all interest in doing anything constructive for the country, if he ever had such. His Tourette’s disease is ramping up bigtime and he has a high octane security clearance. Wonderful. Terrific. Lock the little weasel up.
The Establishmedia organ grinder monkey does as he is trained to do. Glad to see they are back on his side and vice versa.
Oh, yeah, I remember that. Campaign Finance Reform. McCain-Feingold. The biggest attack on the 1st Amendment in the history of the nation.
mcCain is a liar. It was myth who started all this bs against Newt that turned this entire race into a mess, Same w what myth did w perry.
“When is he going to go away? When?”
Excellent question. I hope it’s soon and that he takes his fat, idiotic daughter with him.
John McCain: A lying, duplicitous, traitorous, senile old bastard.
If congress hadn’t wasted their time and violated our rights by restricting our ability to directly give money to candidates, we wouldn’t have SuperPacs — because people would give millions directly to the candidates, and the candidates would then be responsible for what is said in the advertisements.
What you said is true. Maybe he is afraid of what can be or will be advertised about his guy Romney by the super pacs he does not approve. See old Lord McCain is NOT opposed to destroying other candidates, he just wants to be in control of who it is that gets destroyed.... Now he is supposed to 'save' Mitt. So old Lord McCain is worried about something????
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