McConan the "Republican"? Just say NO!
Posted on 01/31/2008 9:18:02 AM PST by coffee260
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Mr. Medved--
Senator McCain supports Free Speech? Who knew?
Why should anyone fawn all over the fact that Senator John McCain supports the Constitution? So McCain isn't for squelching all of our First Amendment Rights. Whats so laudable about that?
On the one hand Senator McCain wants restrictions on political speech. But on the other, King McCain will let us peasants have our talk radio. For now. Oh, Thank You! Thank You, Senator.
Give me a break. Since when has not assaulting our GOD given rights been seen as a gift? I'll tell you when. Since this very same Senator has taken his legislative pen to our rights to free speech. Only then would he have to be defended for not going even further.
If you think this helps John McCain with conservatives you are sadly mistaken. It only shows that while he pushes legislation, such as McCain/Feingold, Mr. Freedom of Speech has decided to leave the Surfs talk radio alone. How gracious of him.
What next? Postings of the Declaration of Independence arguing, Senator McCain believes we are still endowed by our creator? (George Orwell, call your radio station.) The irony is delicious.
I do wonder what excuse you'd have if he did, in fact, decide to support the Fairness Doctrine.
Here's one:
"Senator McCain, while supporting the Fairness Doctrine, has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution."
Or:
"Talk radio has demonized Senator McCain, A WAR HERO, for supporting the Fairness Doctrine. Did I mention he's A WAR HERO? Don't these talkers know he's A WAR HERO and that he took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States?"
McConan the "Republican"? Just say NO!
Medved cuts his own _biased_ throat. Poor soul.
Surprising he would oppose a fairness doctrine when he has shown he is OK with limiting free speech in campaigns. I don’t remember the exact details but there was an article on FR within the last couple of years saying McCain would support some kind of law that would mandate civility in campaign ads and perhaps outlaw negative statements. This was astounding to me, and frightening.
And the difference would be, what?
Rush explained his problem with McCain. Rush LIVES on free speech, and McCain attacked his free speech rights.
Rush has even suggested that he couldn’t tell people not to vote for McCain because he felt threatened by the ban on mentioning candidates and elections within a month of a primary (like in his state of Florida).
When I read this, I thought Medved was saying that someone asked McCain about Rush's statements, and McCain said Rush had a right to make them. Which I thought was funny, because my interpretation of what Rush has said the past week is that someone from the McCain camp has been threatening to invoke the McCain/Feingold bill on him for "electioneering".
But it turned out Medved was NOT saying McCain defended Rush, he was just saying McCain was opposed to the fairness doctrine.
Which really isn't about defending Rush's right to speak right before the election about a candidate, something McCain was dead-set against, probably because he doesn't like people pointing out his record.
“THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE WOULD BE A DEVASTATING ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH; McCAIN-FEINGOLD, FOR ALL ITS FAULTS, WAS NOT.”
Mr. Medved has just proven he is an idiot.
Medved suffers from cognative dissonance. He can defend McCain as a champion of free speech (here), but then ignore the McCain-Feingold 1st Amendment atrocity.
If the Fairness Doctrine comes to be under Herr Hillary, talk radio, as it exists today, will be history.
Well Mr. Medved lets give John McCain a cookie and thank him for his support.
Lets say that the fairness doctrine passes. What’s the worst that could happen? Lets see, all of the conservative talkers that are not on XM/Sirious move to satallite radio where the fairness doctrine does not apply. We all have to pay $20 a month to listen to them. Not happy about it, but we still get to listen to them.
Lets see what McCain/Feingold did. It prevented people who don’t have the name recognition and are already at a disadvantage to incumbents from raising enough money to seriously challenge them for the congressional seats. They don’t have an XM/Sirious solution to go to. McCain’s bill protected his own pink rear end and we’re supposed to be thankful for that Mr. Medved?
What makes me laugh is McCain’s anger at Mitt Romney using his own money to win the pub nod. Yet, he passes a bill to protect himself from others trying to take his senate seat. Maybe McCain is really mad at the trophy wife for not giving him any of her family fortune to run his campaign. He’s just taking it out on Mitt.
I fear that Mr. Medved, having swung from far left to the right, is now swinging back in the other direction. He was always a much better movie critic than political commentator anyway.
exactly
Feingold and Mc Cain now this
would this be classed as another flip flop by him to try and get conservatives on his side
well I just don’t trust or buy into Mc Cain’s stright talk at all
Michael Medved is on dangerous ground here. He has angered a goodly number of his listeners. I wonder how this will play out in his future ratings. Will conservatives begin to turn him off?
Why I will vote for McCain:
1. Hillary will bring back the “Fairness Doctrine” and destroy the conservative voice on radio. ABC NBC CBS and sometimes FOX are in the tank with Hillary.
2. McCain says he will defeat the fairness doctrine. I hope he is telling the truth.
3. McCain will defend my nation, Hillary will sell it down the river.
4. McCain says he will appoint strict constructionist judges. I hope he is not lying.
He will probably screw up everything else just as Hillary would.
If he is the Republican nominee I will hold my nose and vote for him and then go home and take a bath to get rid of the stench.
We would be better served having Republican legislatures getting a backbone and standing up to Hitlery’s liberal philosophy than having them all go along with McCain’s shamnesty, liberal tax policy etc...
What in McCain’s past gives you reason to believe that he will go along with the conservative agenda once he becomes potus?
He drops F-bombs on his own party members and gets in their face when they don’t agree with him. What makes you think he has the temperment to deal with foreign leaders that don’t agree with him on everything?
The only way I will vote for McCain is if there is a true conservative on the VP ticket. Maybe Cheney is up to a third term...
Other than that, it is better to be the opposition party. Support your republican senators/congressman running in 08 with your money and your time. When it comes time to vote, vote the pub ticket except for potus. Leave it blank.
I’m originally a Fred head, after he was out of the race I compromised by going with Mitt. I can’t compromise much further than that.
I TOLD YOU HE WOULD!!!!!
If McCain wins, the GOP gets the blame for the disaster instead of the rats getting the blame.
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