Posted on 04/29/2006 8:04:53 PM PDT by SDGOP
"He [Michael Graham] also mentioned my abridgement of First Amendment rights, i.e. talking about campaign finance reform....I know that money corrupts....I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government."
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
McCain: "He also mentioned about my abridgement of First Amendment Rights, i.e., talking about Campaign Finance Reform. My response to that criticism is I work in Washington and I know that money corrupts and I and a lot of other people were trying to stop that corruption and obviously from what weve been seeing lately we didnt complete the job. But...I would rather have a clean government than one whose quote First Amendment Rights are being respected that has become corrupt....if I had my choice I would rather have a clean government......[chuckle]"
You fail to understand that these three rules would force each of our represtentatives to represent us, not some lobby group or money sources rather than the people they are supposedly there to represent.
btw, I think right now Romney is the guy I like most, personally. Although at moment I am very open minded toward any of the top 4, and also hoping maybe for someone we aren't thinking about to take a look (Pawlenty is the best I can think of at moment).
Rudy would resent being appended to New England. You should read some histories of NYC. It was the un New England. The American culture that triumphed is an interesting mix, of NYC and the Puritans. I say that, as one who has just read two books about early NYC (one about New Amsterdam). One is tempted to argue that American culture ia all about what NYC wrought, but that would be a mistake. America is at once idealistic and opportunistically capitalistic. Both traditions survive, and are in tension, as they were then.
The cw has it wrong. Rudy is running, and running hard. Color me as out on a limb, whatever, but on this one, the cw is wrong.
Thank you, by private reply please explain to me how you converted it to a hyperlink.
Your not serious are you?
Hello my friend. If you haven't yet, please read the referenced article on my web site.
I haven't seen Pawlenty on the tube, so I don't have an opinion, but he might not get re-elected. He is in a toss up mode for re-election as governor. That suggests to me that he is not transfixing.
I am buying your analysis as being closer to the truth than the cw.
Stupid it may be...it's also one of the most succinct windows to his political soul that I have seen. The man is as leftist as they come in his desire to perfect the world through the government.
I haven't either and I agree about his tossup race and agree he is unlikely to run. But based on very little I do know, I think I might like to see him run. Maybe. Probably more so than any other quasi-realistic candidate outside of the Big 4. I think definitely the second best bet out of our Governors.
I'm sorry to sound so harsh, but YOU 'fail to understand' that your 'limitations', and those of Senator McCain (and Bush, who signed 'CFR', along with the Supreme Court who signed off on it) are a direct infringement on my God-given, unalienable rights to political free speech.
Your recipe, along with McCain's, leads to government that can only be afforded by the very rich, or by those who are financed by the very special interests you claim to despise.
Freedom is the answer, not laws that guarantee that the entrenched elites will have every advantage.
lol.
Good to see you again my friend. I hope live is still great in Huntsville.
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