[FreeReign]

You don't sound like you've ever had to run a business. You need to interact with federal, state, and local bureaucrats on a regular and frequent basis: zoning requests, various licenses, building permits, food-handling inspections (if you serve food or drink, which many branches of Barnes & Nobles, for example, do), taxing disputes, etc, etc. A powerful political establishment has the power to make life difficult for a business owner if they choose to What business owner would like to risk "informal" (and unprovable) retaliation over a few hundred dollars (at most) of profit margin?

Now I sound like I've never run a business because I believe in the First Amendment for even slimy politicians.

Free speech is messy isn't it.

Let's cut to the chase.

Do you or do you not think that a politician has a Constitutional right to be a vocal advocate of a nonlegislative boycott?

[SauronOfMordor]

Let's cut to the chase. Do you or do you not think that a politician has a Constitutional right to be a vocal advocate of a nonlegislative boycott?

A politician has a Constitutional right to to be a vocal advocate of a nonlegislative boycott.

To the same extent that a local crime lord has the Constitutional right to publicly say "You know that FreeReign character? The world would be a better place if he was dead, you know what I mean?".