Posted on 08/12/2004 12:45:07 AM PDT by nickcarraway
CHICAGO — The anti-abortion group Wisconsin Right to Life) is airing a TV spot and radio ads about blocked judicial nominees aimed at Wisconsin Democratic Sens. Russ Feingold and Herbert Kohl.
But come this weekend, the ad campaign will be illegal because of whom it's targeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
We'll have all kinds of free speech, if we talk into a closet and keep our voices down.
I suppose that's S.O.P. in our nation's courtrooms today.
We can all dream, can't we?
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
Good grief. I suppose they could bleep out the names to make it legal... As a byproduct, such would lay bare the idiocy of these CFR laws.
(Adjusts glasses. Hangdog facial expression.)
I don't wanna say it, but I told you...
So much for political free speech. Meanwhile, I suppose pornography is legal before, during, and after the election.
It's time to test the Constitutionality of McCain-Feingold.
Sounds like it's time to challenge McCain-Feingold which has done zero, nothing, nada to "fix" the problem of "special interest money" in WA.
It already has been tested, and it passed.
Thanks President Bush, for taking away our free speech right.
(Yes, it's HIS fault, as he SIGNED it. The law would be NOWHERE without his signature)
It's been challenged.
It's here to stay, until it is repealed (which will never happen).
Yup. Bush screwed us on this one. And himself.
Big time.
Bush has no one to blame but himself if he loses.
Don't you just love what campaign finance reform has done to our country? Congress passed it and George W. Bush signed it.
Oh but don't worry. The Supreme Court will certainly overturn it. Bush is taking the argument away from the Democrats. < /sarcasm >
That certainly was the argument.
4 years, no vetoes. None.
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From the article: "Feingold's campaign manager, George Aldrich, said the campaign is a "gimmick designed to score political points during an election by an organization that has endorsed all three of our potential Republican opponents."
Of course, yes, that's why it must be banned. God forbid someone campaign against us.
Good point. Up is down and square is round.
Dims and the media have free speech - not conservatives. I'd take Bork for Chief any day of the week.
[muppets]
Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue,
Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork!
The purpose of the campaign finance law was not to restrict the intrusion of big money into political campaigns. That was how it was advertised, but the real purpose was to make it harder for average folks to have a voice in elections.
McCain-Feingold created a huge 527 loophole to allow millionaires and billionaires like George Soros to continue to pump money into our elections. The people who are restricted are groups of pro-lifers or other average folks who get together and take up funds ($15 or $20 contributions) to buy ads.
McCain-Feingold likely caused the GOP to lose the recent special election in South Dakota. Leftist pro-abortion Democrat Stephanie Herseth won the race 51% to 49%. In the past, local pro-lifers would have run ads close to the election exposing her pro-abortion liberalism, but they were barred from doing so this year for the 60 days prior to the election.
This law will likely cost the GOP candidate three or four percent of the vote in many races, since it will be almost impossible to expose liberal candidates' voting records without committing a federal crime under this law.
And it's only the beginning. Now that the Supreme Court has set a precedent by ruling that free speech can be restricted if such speech upsets certain politicians, you can be sure the leftist 'Rats and their McCain-type suck-ups will move to restrict speech even more.
Scalia was right. McCain-Feingold is the beginning of the end for free political speech in America, just as surely as the Texas sodomy case was the beginning of the drive to force homosexuality into every corner of our society.
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