Sorry Mr Duncan,time for new blood.
By the way,nice rug.
Posted on 11/12/2008 7:26:51 PM PST by Red Steel
MIAMI
The Republican Party will file federal lawsuits Thursday seeking to overthrow the McCain-Feingold federal campaign finance regulations, Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. "Mike" Duncan revealed Wednesday night at a private dinner with the nation's Republican governors.
The move is considered a slap in the face of the Republican Party's failed 2008 presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who was dramatically outspent by Democrat Barack Obama, and of President Bush, who signed McCain-Feingold into law in 2002.
"We will bring two federal suits tomorrow to strengthen the Republican Party," Mr. Duncan told The Washington Times.
Mr. Duncan said one suit will be filed in the District of Columbia to strike down the soft-money ban that is the central tenet ofthe McCain-Feingold Act - formally known as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.
The second suit will be in a Louisiana federal court to strike down the limits under the law Mr. McCain co-sponsored with Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat, that control coordination between parties and their candidates.
"It prohibits us from spending over $84,000 in coordination with a candidate in a congressional race," Mr. Duncan said. "That means we have to find some group to raise and spend money but without any coordination" with the candidate, his campaign or the RNC.
"That does not allow for a unified message," he said. "We don't think there is anything corrupting about coordinating with a candidate."
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Better late than never.
A Good Start!
He reached across the isle to borrow a knife to slit his own throat..
Perhaps our Forefathers knew what they were doing when they formulated the 1st Ammendment
Congress shall make no law...
I think the barn door has opened and the barn is immolated.
Why don’t they prosecute Obambi and Company for all their corrupt and illegal contributions; etc.
The GOP opposes the very person they selected as their leader. No wonder the party lost the election. It has no moral compass.
If for no other reason than to rub McCain’s nose in it and to remind everyone about his involvement, I’m all for this, and make it as public as possible. Shout it from the mountaintops.
There is nobody left to prosecute a Democrat...Sorry..They get a free pass.
Much too easy — You think the newly overhauled Justice Department is up for that? Guess again.
Hindsight is always twenty twenty.
The regulations are so darn complicated. I get a headache every time I think about them.
Well said.
McCain deserved to lose for his stupidity, but we don’t deserve to be saddled with BHO for McCains foolishness.
This is all fine and good , but Duncan needs to go .
We need a new, fresh , RNC chairman that actually has a vision and public persona .
I would call that poetic justice.
There will never be investigations of this. The best we can do is continually refer to it as the "Obama Principle" and use it ourselves next time around.
One wonders how much more money would have come into the McCain campaign if he would have opted to stay out of the public money trough?
He would have gotten a lot of anti-Obama money towards the end. Would it have made a difference?
Probably not, he’s still a DL.
...Democratic Light.
There is a bitter irony in McCain-Feingold and McCain’s 2008 run for the presidency. Hoisted on his own petard.
It is rather laughable that it bit him more than his opponent.
Further proof that just because Congress passes it and the President signs it and the Supreme Court upholds most of it, that doesn’t always make it a good law.
Sorry Mr Duncan,time for new blood.
By the way,nice rug.
what took them so long?
didn’t they think that the rats would find a way around it?
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