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Posted on 02/19/2012 7:16:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Senator John McCain appeared on This Week today from Afghanistan, but before getting onto matters of foreign policy, he weighed in on the Republican contest going on in the United States and continued to speak out forcefully on an issue that has been part of his political identity for over a decade: campaign finance reform. McCain has not been the biggest fan of Super PACs, and McCain today blasted the Supreme Court for its decision in the Citizens United case two years ago.
When Jake Tapper asked McCain about how the GOP’s divisive contest may end up handing the election to President Obama, McCain admitted he was concerned about that possibility, but explained that despite all the negativity in the race, it really boils down to the influence of Super PACs.
“I’ve been in very tough campaigns. I don’t think I’ve seen one that was as personal and as characterized by so many attacks as these are. And, quite frankly, one of the reasons is the Super PACs. And why do we have the Super PACs? Because of the ignorance and naïvete of the United States Supreme Court in the Citizens United campaign.”
Watch the video below, courtesy of ABC:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
No, I prefer free speech.
title should be ‘Long time deranged Senator insults a separate but equal branch of the US Government’.
Super PACs are the only way a normal person can be part of the political advertising discussion. Without them, only candidates’ campaigns and the networks can speak.
You’ll see Super PACS in 2012 come out with ads and if those are ads you want folks to see, you will be able to contribute to those ads being run.
Its not perfect, and many of the Super PAC ads are awful, but it’s better than controlled speech by creeps like McCain.
McCain need not worry about camopaign finance, His
McCain- Feingold bill has worked out so well. /s/
Poor washed up, mentally challenged, RHINO McCain thinks his personal vision of right and wrong trumps the First Amendment.
Perhaps if McLame wasn’t such an enemy to the 1st Amendment in the first place he might have been president.
It’s still haunting him, losing to a Marxist and he thinks the problem is words, not deeds.
When is he going to go away? When?
What does he think about George Soros, Peter Lewis, Wafrrfen Buffett, Bill Gates, AFL-CIO and leftwing NGO’s funded by government getting out the cash for the left??
He probably has no problem with that
I don’t think it haunts him. Weeks before that election he was talking up Obama!
And why do we have the Super PACs? Because of the ignorance and naïvete of the United States Supreme Court in the Citizens United campaign.No, McCaink, you lying jackoff -- the reason we have Super PACs is McCain-Feingold. If there were no law which pretended to reform campaign finance, which is what McCain-Feingold pretends to do, Super PACs wouldn't be around. Or rather, they'd STILL be around, because they were around before McCain-Feingold, which doesn't address them one iota. What a touch-hole he is.
It is getting time to expel this dwarfish, bile spewing, rabid, chimpanzee from the {s}enate and put him over in St. E’s. He has now lost all interest in doing anything constructive for the country, if he ever had such. His Tourette’s disease is ramping up bigtime and he has a high octane security clearance. Wonderful. Terrific. Lock the little weasel up.
The Establishmedia organ grinder monkey does as he is trained to do. Glad to see they are back on his side and vice versa.
Oh, yeah, I remember that. Campaign Finance Reform. McCain-Feingold. The biggest attack on the 1st Amendment in the history of the nation.
mcCain is a liar. It was myth who started all this bs against Newt that turned this entire race into a mess, Same w what myth did w perry.
“When is he going to go away? When?”
Excellent question. I hope it’s soon and that he takes his fat, idiotic daughter with him.
John McCain: A lying, duplicitous, traitorous, senile old bastard.
If congress hadn’t wasted their time and violated our rights by restricting our ability to directly give money to candidates, we wouldn’t have SuperPacs — because people would give millions directly to the candidates, and the candidates would then be responsible for what is said in the advertisements.
What you said is true. Maybe he is afraid of what can be or will be advertised about his guy Romney by the super pacs he does not approve. See old Lord McCain is NOT opposed to destroying other candidates, he just wants to be in control of who it is that gets destroyed.... Now he is supposed to 'save' Mitt. So old Lord McCain is worried about something????
This douchebag is so unworthy of his father’s legacy. What a disgrace.
No fool like an old fool. old fool=Mccain
Wonder if he said anything following SOTU when Obama slammed the court.
If any other Senators are anywhere near like him we are in serious trouble.
Cannot understand the voters that keep that senile old buzzard in the senate. LIke the way you worded it...
McCain doesn’t care if Obama is reelected.
Funny thing is, McCain spent more money in one primary race against another Republican (21 million) than he has in all of his general election fights against Democrats put together. And all AFTER his wonderful McCain Feingold was going to get money out of politics.
Senile old bastard.
McCain is a hardcore Vichy Republican who doesn't want to change anything.He and all the Vichy Republicans surrendered to the fascists and are happy to have the trappings of power without any real responsibility in return for their going along with fascist dictates. McCain whined and cried as much as any democrat when Newt forced a balanced budget and welfare changes on the democrat fascists and he's still whining and weeping over why we can't just all get along. We got along with the fascists as the majority for almost eighty where has that led?
McCain and all the Vichy Republicans have to go.
Fixed it.
Dog gone it. We need a like button!
Dog gone it. We need a like button!
Senile imbecile.
Does he impress anyone he doesn’t pay? His pool boy? The Mexican at MacDonalds? He makes Obama sound smart.
Like daughter, like father...
Well, when Juan “Lettuce” McBackStabbingRINO calls you ignorant, you have to know you’re doing something right.
Which George Bush signed, although he claimed he believed it to be unConstitutional, because surely SCOTUS would strike it down. D'oh!
Arguably one of the lamest things W Bush ever did given his rationale for it. The reason presidents have veto power over legislation is so they can exercise Executive Branch authority over what they believe is un-Constitutional. Passing the buck to the SCOTUS in spite of your own convictions is just weakness.
I absolutely agree. There is no valid sentence that begins “I’m signing this unConstitutional bill into law because...”
Nope. It negates the whole purpose of our three branch government as well as the oath to defend the Constitution.
McCain is full of it. This year is no worse than any other election year. Its always rough and tumble and there is always a lot of negative advertising. Look what Dubya did to McCain in SC in 2000. Talk about dirty politics.
If it wasn’t for the Super Pacs Mitt would have run over everyone by now. Juan is all ticked off at the SCOTUS for stepping on his McCain Feingold campaign reform.
He’s helping Barack chip away at the constitution in many other ways, too. Homeland inSecurity is his playground. What a disaster reelecting him to the Senate.
But he told those old people that were afraid of the Marxist not to be afraid—the Marxist was going to make a fine president.
This is the result of open primaries. JD had the base and then along came the interlopers and the same dirty tricks campaign that Mitt is waging against his opponents was waged against JD.
In 8 years Bush never vetoed anything and was hoping the SC would do the dirty work he didn’t want to be the bad guy...
Since most new government laws range somewhere between unnecessary and disastrous, if I were President, my paradigm would be that I had to be convinced on a case-by-case basis not to veto EVERYTHING (and I might attach a policy that any new law presented for signature had to be accompanied by the repeal of x number of old laws).
And most of that money was given by conservatives and other Republicans who assumed he was running a sincere campaign against the one. Then, in act of almost infinite perfidy, he turned around and used the money and ran an effective campaign when he's up against a conservative. Yeah, it's not hard to figure out what Juan is all about if you watch him.
Arizonans didn't really "reelect" him, at least not for the most part. He cheated in numerous ways.
You got my vote and don’t forget to negate all previous presidents executive orders.....
McCain hates free speech.
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