McCain Says: No Campaign Finance Reform Makes Good People Do Bad Things

Television ^ | 2/15/02

[Parmy]

There is no text. I heard McCain being interviewed on a news blip this morning. And, he did say that the absence of finance reform laws make good people to bad things.

I don't think good people do bad things regardless of their circumstances. Using that logic would mean that good people would commit murder with out some kind of laws.

I think the statement by McCain was as close to stupid as it gets.

[BibChr]

So does BEING NUTS!

Q.E.D.

Dan

[ArGee]

I think the statement by McCain was as close to stupid as it gets.

Stupid in what McCainiac reveals about himself when he says that.

It is true that good people can be tempted to do bad things. Certain environments tempt the good more than other environments do.

But it isn't at all hard for good people to set up environments that keep them from being tempted. Witness what W. and the GOP did not do because of all the money Enron gave the Pubbies.

McCainiac is just looking for an excuse.

Shalom.

[Anotherpundit]

what? me? keating five? There weren't enough laws to stop me! I'm a good person!

[AmishDude]

McCain is nuts. He wants, somehow, to be forgiven for Keating 5. Somehow he thinks this will make it all alright. The irony is that he was much less involved with Keating than the other 4 (Democratic) senators. They just brought him in to make it a bipartisan scandal.

[Wphile]

Okay McCain...time to come clean. You must delineate for all of us all the times campaign money made you do bad things. Come on Johnny...time to confess your sins. You need to tell us why we need CFR. Give us the evidence.

I am sure after you offer your confession, all the other supporters will do the same. Time to lead, John. You can do it.

[Cyber Liberty]

Please GO HERE and voice your opinion on whether the Senate should pass this uncontitutional piece of work....

[Howlin]

LOL! You got that right!

Because he's a crook, he thinks everybody is!

What he's saying is "Stop us before we commit yet another crime!"

[goldstategop]

Johnny McQueeq actually said that? That people can't behave decently without a campaign finance law? Oh my gosh I wonder how this Republic of our somehow survived quite nicely for two centuries til now without it. And whatever scandals occurred never affected the ability of the people to hold their elected officials responsible. McQueeg gets the Idiot Of The Year Award.

[mombonn]

I believe that President Bush will veto this bill if it reaches his desk. He is a man of character, and will take the political heat while defending the Constitution.

It's obvious that mclame, my representative, nick smith, and the rest of the rinos who voted for this bill have been in DC too long.

IT'S TIME FOR THEM TO GO!

[Wphile]

CNN is reporting that a "Bush aid said the President is willing to sign the House version of CFR." It's a tagline on CNN Headline News. I hope CNN is wrong and that aid better be fired.

[mombonn]

Consider the source - cnn.

Bush is too smart to sign it.

[onedoug]

So, did being tortured and beaten as a POW in Hanoi, make McCain a collaborator afer all?

[RAT Patrol]

Good People + Bad Things = Bad People

It's a simple enough equation.

[OldFriend]

He's sounding like he wants us to think he's a good person but was forced to do bad things............

[hgro]

Try as he will, Mc Pain will always be trying to explain the crooked deals he made with Keating and the other four senate crooks that particpated with him in pocketing multi-thousands of dollars that helped sink the savings and loan industry.

[BibChr]

Yes, O Master.

I went, I saw, I voted.

Dan

[Jethro Tull]

Many of the Arizona Republican party members here on the FR have voted (and will continue to vote) for John McCain, despite his checkered career.

Until these "Party before Principle" people drop their lemming-like support, the McCains, Shays, Jeffords and Greenwoods will continue to shatter a party that many of us once held dear...

[Cyber Liberty]

...And then there are those of us on FR who are willing to actively toss him out on his ear. I hope you are aware of who's who, JT.

[Brett66]

I remember McLame getting some traction on CFR because of Klinton's foibles. I wonder if he thinks unconstitutional laws will make bad people be good. The Bent One trampled almost every concievable law ever made. If you don't throw the scum out for breaking existing laws, then it won't do any good to pass more laws that will be easily tossed aside by corrupt politicians. McLame knows this, but he still wants to trample the constitution. That makes him a traitor.