No laziness here, FDT was a dynamo of activity when it came to defending speech restrictions.
Posted on 09/21/2007 11:33:22 AM PDT by pissant
He also voted against a McCain Amendment 2294 to increase disclosure requirements.
Go Fred Go!
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But Mr. Bopp will also have to take any "he's a biased commentator" hits he has coming to him based on this:
He also serves as Special Advisor for Life Issues for the Romney for President campaign.
Why someone would need an adviser for life issues is beyond my comprehension.
No laziness here, FDT was a dynamo of activity when it came to defending speech restrictions.
“Senator Thompson responded that he “didn’t think it is a good idea” for corporations and labor union to give “large sums of money to individual politicians.”
I believe Fred was attempting to do away with the legal bribary of soft money and the bogus “issue ads” but, as usual, they went too far.
BTW, the author is not exactly non-biased as a Rommney aide.
Except corporations and unions already were not allowed to give large sums of money to politicians. For many decades. Not sure what the real goal of CFR was, but it wasn’t that.
He was all over education during his tenure as well. But that record is not one he’ll be bragging about.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1898585/posts
Almost more than any other legislation that affected their particular area of focus, premiere pro-Gun groups like the NRA and pro-life groups like the National Right to Life strongly opposed the McCain-Feingold-Thompson CFR legislation. Most such groups actually include the CFR votes in their report cards for Congressman at that time along with their interest areas. A vote for CFR resulted in a huge hit from the NRA and NRLC and other such groups against the records of any Congressman that voted for it or supported it. And I doubt that they will soon forget this. Thompson is going to have an uphill battle trying to get support from or an endorsement from such groups.
Does McCain have a small part of his speech devoted to ‘straight talk’? When you’re a Presidential candidate, everything you say should be straight talk. There shouldn’t be any tip-toeing around any issue. They should give you a straight answer.
Sorry all the candidates have “black marks” against them and this one is one of Fred’s. No human is perfect and voting is always a matter of setting priorities, picking the lesser of evils and going with the candidate one thinks is the best for the country and has a chance of winning. If he had a change or heart or things didn’t work the way he thought - fine. It’s not like other candidates haven’t said that too. It just has to be weighed with all the other stuff about all the other candidates.
I’m not fond of policy wonks, but he’s a little too lightweight even for me.
Been discussed...try a new song, Pissant.
There are 2 issues FT needs to explain for my support..........their initials are both CFR.
Hey don't try and suppress it. It's going to be out there anyway. Might as well have it out now... unless you think it's better to post Rudy in drag again, the video of Mitt promising Massachusetts he'd leave abortion laws alone or McCain being McCain so we can all discuss that again and again and again. Fair's fair.
Geez, could we not just get a honest “law of unitended consequences”
He could just say “we were trying to empower the voters by limiting money and it just went in a whole other direction.”
Lets not forget, the REASON McCain Feingold passed was because EVERYONE FIGURED OUT HOW TO BYPASS it.
So, in Russ Feingold’s own words, Fred was esstential from the getgo.
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How many FDT supporters post negative articles about Duncan Hunter?
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