Posted on 08/23/2004 5:13:49 PM PDT by .cnI redruM
The McCain-Feingold Act was enacted to correct what many saw as widespread abuses in how elections get financed. Based on the current election campaign, this legislation has had a deleterious effect on the level and quality of public discourse and has only moved the monies that supposedly corrupt our elections into different financial portfolios.
President Bush took advantage of circumstance to finally do what he needs to do on the issue of Campaign Finance Reform and denounce the behavior of 527 Groups. He has condemned the behavior of these groups and asked them to pull their offensive ads. This suggests that he now understands that McCain-Feingold is one of major aspects of campaign finance legislation that badly needs reform. It's too bad this eluded his grasp when he signed the odious piece of legislation.
President Bush came to understand this because he suffered nearly unlimited vituperation from liberal 527s such as MoveOn.Org. To some, this is seen as a resurgence of the grass roots. This, however, is not how MoveOn.Org gets financed. The Tides Foundation , MoveOn.Org's paymaster, was founded by, is staffed by, and acts on behalf of several billionaires. I seriously doubt the 527 groups supporting Republicans are any cleaner or more civic-minded.
The Swift Boat Veterans For Truth have scored points against John Kerry by casting aspersions against Senator Kerry's tenure as a Naval Officer in Vietnam. They have accused John Kerry of lying about his exploits in order to bolster his campaign and this has damaged John kerry in the polls. Thus Kerry has called upon George Bush to denouce the ads.
President Bush did John Kerry one better. He denounced all 527 groups. Including the $40 Million worth of 527 Groups who have taken to the air to accuse George W. Bush of nearly every crime against humanity that they could think of.
He stopped just short of calling on John F. Kerry to purge the MoveOn.Org staffers that currently work for his campaign. This is a shame, John Kerry had no problem with accusing Karl Rove of serving as The SwiftVet Admiral.
Their advertising has resembled a two-year old kid throwing spaghetti at the ceiling and then admiring all the messy strands that stick. Senator Kerry had no problem with this abuse of the new CFR regulation. It provides George Bush with yet another issue where John F. Kerry has opened the door for President Bush to lead.
No, it's time to REPEAL McCain Feingold and RESTORE the first amendment.
McManiac and Feinfold were so arrogant in their noble endevour as to forget that enforcement is the only method of adhering to their legislation. They assumed that a bipartisan McStain/Feintort bill would be enforced by the mere mention of their names on the legislation. Of course the enforcement arm of their rats nest of unconstitutional nonsense is to be enforced by the FEC............Uh yeah, the FEC.......That gets everyone shakin in their boots huh?
Feingold is amorphous. He is without shape or form on any issue, alway's in the middle, and leans one way or another when nobody is watching. He hides behind an army of staffers which run interference for him. He never makes public appearences in Wisconsin. If the Packers game I went to on Saturday is any indicator of his standing among the booze swilling, curd chewing, gas station cuisine loving, morons in the state, he's good for six more years. Russ Darrow had a lot of people really working hard for him passing out Packers schedules with his campaign logo on them and I heard a lot of Feigold joy-joy banter as their response to the Darrow workers.
What are you saying? That the FEC should more vigorously enforce unconstitutional laws?
Washington is a disease.
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