Posted on 02/27/2007 7:39:52 PM PST by Sunsong
Dick Morris & Eileen McGann in 1,179 words tried to explain what John McCain’s problem is, why he is not gaining any traction among Republican voters.
And the Morrises (she is his wife) missed!...
…Nope. Wrong. Two words:
McCain-Feingold.
The fundamental difference between McCain 2000 and McCain 2008 is that he put his name on a law that forbids people from speaking out against their congressman within 60 days of an election.
Wrong on abortion? That has not stopped Rudy or Mitt.
Wrong on gay marriage? Rudy lived with a gay couple after his second wife kicked him out of the house.
Gun control? It has not stopped Rudy or Mitt.
McCain-Feingold.
That is a show-stopper. Ever step in fresh dog-doo? The smell sticks to the shoe all day. That is what McCain-Feingold is to the senator from Arizona.
He is no longer John McCain. He is McCain-Feingold.
Read the First Amendment:…
That not only is the law, but that is good political advice.
Americans do not like to be told to shut up.
McCain-Feingold told Americans to shut up.
Even Feingold could not run with it. He should be Obama. Instead, he is stuck on the sidelines because of McCain-Feingold.
There is a certain satisfaction in knowing that.
And God bless Mitch McConnell who fought McCain-Feingold all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost, of course. But you must fight the good fight anyway.
And stay out of that fresh dog-doo.
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McCain-Feingold?
naw
WEll, he's right. McCain-Feingold is certainly one reason out of about sixty why I can't stand McCain.
At least there are no Johnbots here.
Sane, he's not.
Looks like the wheels have come off McCain's Straight Talk Express
D@mn straight! Especially when it's our Constitutional right.
If Rudy and his high poll #s at this early stage do nothing more than trim McCain's sails and take him out, all conservatives will owe him a debt of gratitude.
McCain's whole candidacy was based on his inevitability, the sense that it was his turn, that he was the choice of the establishment, the Dole in 96-Bush in 2000 deal.
By Rudy blowing him away poll-wise and stealing some of the publicity as well as shattering the CW surrounding McCain and his chance at the nomination, he's pretty much ended McCain's whole plan. He'll have to come up with something new.
Rudy's high #s may also be hurting Hillary. If Rudy continues to poll well against her and Dems get the idea that she can't beat him in a general, they may be more likely to go with an Obama or an Edwards. The whole electability thing that doomed Dean and helped Kerry.
Now, even if Rudy isn't a hard core conservative, if his candidacy does nothing more than end the campaigns of McCain and Her Thighness, all Americans should be greatful.
More good news for Rudy fans.
It's an interesting take, isn't it. I don't really know anyone who likes McCain-Feingold. Of course, McCain's messianic tendencies and his temper bother me, too.
Oh, I don't know if he is a strong supporter of it. Let's see what he has to say Friday at CPAC.
There's got to be a few(s).
I love all the talk about jockeying for position this far out from the election.
Clinton was like the 3rd or 4th dem candidate at this point.
All this talk of who leads whom in the polls at this point is an exercise in futility.
Sane, he's not.
LOL. And he's so arrogant he doesn't *get it*(s).
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Woo hoo!! One free speech hater sown, one to go!!
Dennis Prager asks Rudy about McCain-Feingold:
DP: These are some of the issues that have prevailed in the American conscience right now. Where do you...let's get to specifics. Where do you differ most, if you can identify it right now, from John McCain?
RG: I don't know how I differ from John. I mean, John and I have pretty much the same view on the war, as best I can tell. I mean, I think he is...it may be that I'm more firmly committed to tax cutting than he is, although he has vote for some tax cuts. He hasn't voted for others. I'm not sure. But John and I are good friends, and if we do end up running against each other, it'll be interesting to see where and how we differ.
DP: Well, here's one possibility. My listeners know this, that this is actually rendered him, unfortunately, unvotable for me. And if I have him on, I will tell him that, and that is campaign finance reform, which has ensured that essentially, only multi-millionaires run for office in the United States of America, especially to the Senate, because I cannot...if I, Dennis Prager, who doesn't have any money, wanted to run, no millionaire could give me a million dollars. They could only give me $4,000 dollars. So you have any views on campaign finance reform?
RG: I think there's no question that the present McCain-Feingold law has had tremendous loopholes in it, that people have taken advantage of. And it needs to be corrected. It needs to be cured.
DP: So you would like to see it in place as well? You're also for...
RG: I would like to...but I think, in fairness to Senator McCain, that he has recognized some of the problems that maybe weren't foreseen in McCain-Feingold, and has promised to try to fix it. I don't know that that's happened.
DP: Well, let me then be specific. Why shouldn't people just be allowed to give any amount of money they want to any candidate, and just have it publicly known? Why should there be a law limiting that freedom?
RG: Well, I mean, there...I think there are very good arguments on either side of that. I've always lived under a campaign finance law that had limitations on it, so I'm sort of pretty comfortable with it. But the reality is that the Supreme Court has so far ruled on that, and I guess found McCain-Feingold...
DP: Unfortunately.
RG: ...found it Constitutional, although that was a pretty close vote.
DP: All right. We need to spend some time alone together.
RG: But I mean, I grew up in a system in New York where we had campaign finance, and we had matching funds, so I got pretty used to it. But it's the law, unfortunately, the campaign finance law has become so complex and so difficult.
DP: Like the tax code.
RG: It is easily as complex as the tax code, and it's become sort of a gotcha game.
http://dennisprager.townhall.com/Transcript_Page.aspx?ContentGuid=fac1ad6b-eaa1-45a2-b1c6-3fe2c099887d
Many conservatives despise McCain for his leading role in passing campaign-finance reform, which they see as an abomination of the First Amendment. But Giuliani is an ardent supporter of campaign finance reform as well. As he was contemplating a run for the Senate in 2000, Giuliani told Wolf Blitzer that he was a "very, very strong supporter of Campaign Finance Reform," adding that he'd been "a very strong supporter of McCain-Feingold for a long, long time now."
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