“Plain-Speaking” About McCain-Feingold-Thompson

Right. 3 months ago, many of us were willing to wait and see what his next step was. He had given a generic answer that some things don’t turn out the way you think they will, and we are now waiting to see what exactly he meant by that.

His appearance with Laura didn’t answer the question.

He has a campaign manager...

Is that the salsa chef who said that Hunter has no chance...something about pushing a string through a maze?

Who was grossly misquoted? Yep that was the one. But you already knew that.

Who was grossly misquoted? I have no idea.

But I do know Hunter Duncan's campaign honcho (and chief picante saucier) says the man has no chance in hell.

None, he wasn’t in that position. But he sure as hell wasn’t allergic to the idea...

You mean to imply that someone from the Romney camp had an agenda in witting this crap...

“They are spending most of their energy attacking Romney.”

Sadly, he makes it easy.

Attacking Romney takes no energy, indeed he does it for us...

That’s the ticket, nancy

I can believe you, or taco boy.

I believe taco boy.

Keep pushing that string! LOL

ANd the best part is, I don’t care.

You mean to imply that someone from the Romney camp had an agenda in writting this crap...


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Your McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation is a treasonous act. You and your cohorts are attempting to subvert the Constitution of the United States of America, the very same constitution that you swore an oath to defend, so help you God! That makes you a domestic enemy of that great document and a traitor to your country. Yes, and Benedict Arnold was a war hero before he turned traitor too.

How dare you even think that you are qualified to sit in the oval office! Ronald Reagan’s office! President? Hah! You miserable excuse for a two-bit political hack, you’re not even qualified to shine Ronald Reagan’s boots. If you do run, I’m afraid you’re gonna be at least one vote short. It’ll be a cold day in hell before a traitor like you ever receives my vote. And that’s a campaign promise you can take to the bank.

You can take your fascist campaign finance laws and the jackbooted FEC anti-free-speech enforcers you are empowering and put them where the sun don’t shine. And if this post is in violation of your unconstitutional law, shove it too!

Speaking of ‘plain speaking’.....

Well, it sums my thinking up pretty well on the issue! LOL

BTTT

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Laura: What about the issue ads?

Fred: Well, that’s a different story, I’ll get to that in a minute. But my main motivation for CFR - the issue ads thing wasn’t even being discussed as far as I remember when the first debates were had and when the first bill was proposed - it was a matter of whehter or not you wanted to get rid of soft money. Bill Clinton and Dick Morris showed that you could use soft money in ways that people thought you’d get put in jail for a short time ago. So they poured it in, instead of having the agreed upon limitations that have historically democrats, republicans, conservatives and liberals and everybody else pretty much acknowledged were constitutional, because it had to do with federal elections, and the idea that you don’t wanna give too much money to any individual member of congress then come lobbying him for a bill. That’s called bribery in the real world. But they came in with this soft money to do the same thing, through the backdoor. We wanted to do away with that. Now they added on something that was a mistake. And that is the issue ads you were talking about, and I voted for all of it, so I support the first part, but I don’t support that.

As Will pointed out, this was very disingenuous, citing that this language regarding issue ads and time restrictions had been around a long time, and was not some late addition. In fact it originated in 1997. CFR did not pass until 2001. This egregious slap at the constitution was called the Snowe-Jeffords Amendment, added to the CFR legislation language in 1998. It became part of the base language for this legislation years before the final passage in 2001. And guess what? The amendment had OTHER sponsors as well, not just Snowe and Jeffords. They include one Fred Dalton Thompson. From the Congressional Record:

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see #94.