Posted on 02/08/2008 2:46:25 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Bradley Smith, former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission and the leading legal scholar on campaign finance issues, experienced the McCain treatment firsthand. Because Smith opposed limits on political speech, he was denounced as "corrupt" by the senator... The two did accidentally meet outside a hearing room in 2004 when they were both scheduled to testify before the Senate rules committee. At first, McCain grasped Smith's outstretched hand (Smith was in a wheelchair, recovering from surgery), but when he recognized his campaign finance opponent, he snatched his hand back, snarling, "I'm not going to shake your hand. You're a bully. You have no regard for the Constitution. You're corrupt."
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What part of “Congress shall make...” do you not understand?
Or have you had enough people remind you of the difference between government and private entities?
My point was currency has no speech rights.
About as much right as you have using a private enterprise such as talk radio to call in your views. If they want them, they will put you on. If not, they will not allow you to go on the air.
And isn't interesting the cries of censorship when one of our favorites gets canned.
McCain Feingold was campaign finance reform. Money. Besides, didn't President Bush allow it to become law? There wasn't much flack for his complicity. And wasn't it upheld by the Supreme Court?
Seems the Swift Boaters got their message out pretty effectively against Kerry. Seems Moveon.org did pretty well against President Bush.
And no one has denied you from speaking your thoughts. You can still go anywhere you like and say whatever your message is.
Don't take my word for it. This is from the National Journal:
"Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal's 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgent presidential candidate shifted further to the left last year in the run-up to the primaries, after ranking as the 16th- and 10th-most-liberal during his first two years in the Senate."
"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., the other front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, also shifted to the left last year. She ranked as the 16th-most-liberal senator in the 2007 ratings, a computer-assisted analysis that used 99 key Senate votes, selected by NJ reporters and editors, to place every senator on a liberal-to-conservative scale in each of three issue categories. In 2006, Clinton was the 32nd-most-liberal senator."
For that matter, talk radio squelches free speech on a daily basis with screeners and the hosts ability to unplug the caller and yet continue as if the caller was able to respond.
There is no right to free speech on talk radio.
That's pretty much the way I feel. No matter how many times I have disagreed with him, he is infinitely superior to either of the democrats who will be fielded against him. I will vote for him. The prospect of a Clinton or an Obama as the Commander in Chief makes my skin crawl. McCain will be a good Commander in Chief as we continue the war on islamic terrorists who seek to destroy us. If we don't prevail and destroy their ability to harm us, the rest doesn't matter.
principle: a fundamental doctrine or tenet.
You deride your “suicide voters”, but this voter stands on principle when I say that McCain was unacceptably liberal eight years ago, and he is further left now.
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over in the vain hope the outcome will be different.
One cannot compromise one’s principles and still consider them principles.
Mine are not for sale.
Open Borders? Did you witness McCain the last 8 and more years? Look it up.
You may choose to neglect your history, FRiend. I do not.
Your comments bear repeating.
Thank you.
McCain’s principles are more in line with conservative thought than either of the likely Democrat nominees, by a long shot.
The time to fret about the principles of one Republican over another is beyond us. That was what the primary was for. We are beyond the primary — the Republican choice will be McCain.
I’m not completely happy with that, but then when the alternative is considered, the choice is obvious.
Committing suicide is not a demostration of principle, it’s a demonstration of lunacy.
This is persuasive:
On the issue of illegal immigration, a position which provoked the outspoken opposition of many conservatives, I stood my ground aware that my position would imperil my campaign. I respect your opposition for I know that the vast majority of critics to the bill based their opposition in a principled defense of the rule of law. And while I and other Republican supporters of the bill were genuine in our intention to restore control of our borders, we failed, for various and understandable reasons, to convince Americans that we were. I accept that, and have pledged that it would be among my highest priorities to secure our borders first, and only after we achieved widespread consensus that our borders are secure, would we address other aspects of the problem in a way that defends the ru le of law and does not encourage another wave of illegal immigration.
Brilliant.
I was echoing your own words, FRiend. But you are correct - they are not persuasive.
Neither are McCain's words, which do not match his actions in so many cases. I'm glad you are satisfied with his words. I cannot disregard his actions.
Again, ALL of their records suck, but there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between them. If you’re a McCain guy, go vote for him. But there is nothing on God’s green earth that will ever make me change my mind about him and vote for him.
The only hope we have for the salvation of this Republic is via the Congress and I will put all of my efforts and my vote toward re-taking the Congress with principled conservatives - NOT RINOs and socialists who tell me what I want to hear. Too many RINOs have done that and betrayed us when they got in office. NO MORE!!
Also, food for thought - McCain is 72 years-old and, if elected, will be 73 when he takes office. If he manages to get elected and complete his first and only term in office, he will be 77. There’s no chance he will be re-elected.
McCain’s past 10 years have been based on sticking his finger in conservative’s eyes and he’s about to discover that payback’s a b!tch!! Having an “R” behond his name doesn’t make him a conservative - “R” also stands for “RINO” and “Rejects conservative values”.
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