Posted on 07/23/2007 6:30:32 PM PDT by indigo5
“Monsieur L’Abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”
Voltaire
> One could make the same claim about FR.
People are jumping up and down calling this a first amendment issue - I don’t see it that way. Nothing in the complaint suggests that KOS can’t post whatever it likes; it merely says that it must report its financial activities. If they are making cash or “in-kind” donations to specific candidates, that needs to be disclosed. If they are not spending funds specifically to promote the election of specific candidates, they should tell the FEC to bugger off.
As far as I know, Free Republic does not expend funds to hold campaign events for specific candidates, and does not make donations to specific candidates. If I am mistaken, then I think FR should have to report those as well. Its not the speech - its the money.
They can say anything they damn well please at KOS as far as I am concerned. But if they are acting as a conduit for campaign donations, I think the public has a right to know.
But I am fully in agreement with gutting the FEC. I think the only thing the FEC should be doing is making sure candidates report who their donors are - that is what matters to me; knowing who a candidate is beholden to.
“FR will very definitely be supporting the Republican candidate against the Democrat candidate in the 2008 general election.”
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Even Rudy?
“Even Rudy?”
No, he said Republican./sarc.
Amen! I despise the idea of ever giving government any power over our opponents that they could potentially some day turn around and use against us.
Of course on principle, I just despise the idea of giving government any more power, period.
I'm with you.
Not only is it short-sighted, but it's also hypocritical. It's not about the Constitution and what's right, but about political expediency.
BTTT
Doesn’t the Daily Kos himself and his forum posters try to get politicians elected who support this kind of regulation by the FEC?
BTTT
As far as I know, Jim isn’t getting payments through his “Consulting Firm” to push certain candidates on Free Republic.
Kos - Armstrong Blogola Scandal
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/06/kos_-_armstrong_blogola_scandal/
DailyKos should be vilified because it is a hate-mongering, Jew-baiting, America-bashing cesspool which frequently has posters calling for people they don’t agree with to be murdered. But it is all free speech, and therefore the Feds need to keep their paws off.
There should only be one election rule, full discloser of support. If i know who is supporting a canidate i can make my own judgements on the reasons they may support that canidate.
Who do you think Russ Feingold is more in tune with, us or the Kos-mics??
I suspect they did violate the law as written.I suspect they were supporters of CRF
I suspect they would be screeching for punishment and obedience to the letter of the law if the complaint had been filed against a conservative
But despite all that I stand with DK in demanding the complaint be ignored/withdrawn/dismissed.
54 posted on 07/24/2007 9:05:21 AM EDT by Tribune7
Eventually Feingold - hence, McConnell v. FEC - must be overturned, and the sooner the better.But it is never comfortable being the appellant in a case. And since DailyKos almost certainly promoted "Campaign Finance Reform," it looks better on them than on, say, FR, to have to appeal an adverse judgment under McCain-Feingold. Not only so, but since DailyKos is clearly "guilty" of violating the plain text of McCain, overturning a judgment against DailyKos under McCain could not but overturn McConnell v. FEC, hence McCain, root and branch.
You're right about that. If you type in the URL www.fredrepublic.com, it redirects to Free Republic. This is the first time I've ever been on the side of Daily Kos. It's interesting to think about the rejoicing in moonbatland if this action had been against FR instead.
YOu can make the same argument, but you would be wrong.
No real American would allow himself to be appointed to the FEC anyway.
There's a town in Afghanistan where they could never agree on their rules of hospitality. Consequently they all decided that no guests would be allowed, and if someone tried to get into the town they'd just kill him.
My idea is to allow Congress-critters only one term, but during that term they get to cheat, mess with interns, run around on their spouses, steal the public's money, and raise general cain, but at the end of the term we take them out and execute them.
I have no doubt there'd never be a shortage of candidates for public office! Probably many of the same ones we have now.
Really? Tell me about that after the final nominees for Dems and Repubs are official, and FR goes full bore into supporting the Republican candidate.
Besides, YOU might think I'm wrong, but I doubt that the democrat sympathizers at the FEC would think so.
It's time to strip the buttinsky laws from the books. This should be a Free Republic with Free People.
There is no doubt a political concensus that forms here, but this is not an active arm of the Republican party.
I'll give you an example. Probably 99% of the regulars at FR think Tom Davis (R) of Northern Virginia is a mind-numbed, quasi-Liberal RINO. And, he is, of course, but if his opponent is a Democrat I assure you that Tom is the least of our worries so I will probably campaign for him.
Now that doesn't mean I agree with him; just that his opponent will be a sniveling little hateful piece of garbage who should be exiled to an isolated frozen piece of real estate than to take a chance of him or her being in Congress.
And that's not even partisan.
I think you have a good argument there, and certainly it is one that I would make if I were representing FR in a battle over this issue.
But we have both been around long enough to know that having the better argument is not often the key to winning in highly politicized process and regulatory actions.
The “Fairness Doctrine” is an example. It is blatantly unconstitutional and wrong-headed, but that doesn’t mean its passage isn’t a threat if the left happens to be in political power.
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