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To: K-oneTexas
He has always fought governmental corruption, even if that has led him to absurd extremes like campaign finance reform.

Umm, can you say Keating Five? Sure you can....

John McCain has more direct, personal, experience and involvement with corruption in politics than most.

Campaign finance reform was not about cleaning up corruption. It was about ensuring that the spoils of corruption only went to club members. And shredding First Amendment rights was not too great a price to pay for keeping the corrupted funding coming.

13 posted on 02/14/2008 7:52:21 AM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (The facts of life are conservative -- Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net

“Campaign finance reform was not about cleaning up corruption. It was about ensuring that the spoils of corruption only went to club members.”

Amen! Shapiro, whoever that is, is willfully ignorant of that fact. Or he’s stupid. Or he’s lying.


150 posted on 02/14/2008 9:22:07 AM PST by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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