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I’m not in a position to be “eligible” to receive such a letter, but I think that if I did, I’d be tempted to dig deep and make SURE that those who would expose the hypocrisy of the left got the funding they needed to do so.

Come to think of it, maybe.....I’ll see what I can do.

And the idiocy to think that sponsoring political speech opens one up to legal liability....the only liability being opened here is for the counter-suit to bankrupt Mr. Matzzie and his group.

You would hope this kind of stupidity would be roundly denounced by the mainstream Democrats.

But you know they won’t.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Rob… maybe you should have checked the Recent Reader Entries first.

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

“As a conservative, I will not be overly enthusiastic about voting for John McCain on November 4 - but I will be sprinting to the polling place to do so!”
Matthew May, conservative commentator, The American Spectator

It’s a guise used by nearly every 2-bit dictatorship worldwide.
THe ironic thing is that the left exclaims that it’s the right that uses jackbooted tactics......

Without an honest exchange of ideas, how can a mind grow?

Sadly, this is the tactic of choice of the left these days.

They have to limit debate,regardless of topic, because they are incapable of arguing on the basis of the underlying facts.

This is just another gift to the American people from McCain/Feingold.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

In other words, they’re just like labor unions!

This is just another gift to the American people from McCain/Feingold.

How are unethical tactics of the left a “gift of McCain/Feingold”?  Connect the dots there for us.

I think what 108 is getting at here is that campaign finance law lists the names and occupations of donors on publicly available documents, creating the database by which they can be harassed. 

I’m not quite sure it was started with McCain-Lenin-Feingold, but 108’s got a decent point that the practice overall allows donors to be harassed for their views.

A good spanking at the polls, or a harassment lawsuit, will hopefully cure these clowns of this foolishness.

This is just another gift to the American people from McCain/Feingold.

R108- My thoughts exactly. With the ways to express our preferences in candidates and parties and issues limited by the inane McCain Feingold restrictions, it was only a matter of time before some deranged leftie would come up with something like this. And I should vote for him? F*** that noise.

BB: That’s part of it, but the worst of it is that the sixty day limitation spawned the creation of the 527 groups, which allowed Soros to get his fingers in our political pie, big time, and also empowers the MSM, which is not limited by McCain/Feingold.  As we know, Soros has lots of influence in the MSM.
McCain/Feingold is a constant finger poked in the eye of the American public.
It is ironic, IMO, that his own legislation might help defeat McCain, since the leftie domination of the public political discourse is set to begin in less than thirty days.  McCain/Feingold is bad for America, in many ways.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

This is a typical leftie tactic: when you don’t have the truth on your side, try to win by intimidation.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

Carrick: I thought it was obvious, but hope that my explanation, and that of others, has satisfied you.  I was preparing a longer article on the subject, because it will become a big factor in less than thirty days, but maybe this will be enough to bring it to our attention.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

McCain/Feingold, warts and whatnot, is unrelated to what amounts to dirty tactics.  They did the same thing in the last election (tried to suppress the SVBT adds via legal threats), but it is unrelated to McCain/Feingold per say.

The only point in favor of a connection relates to whether “open donor” requirements enable these sorts of dirty tactics.  While that is true, that sort of legislation did not start with McCain/Feingold (see the Federal Election
Campaign Act of 1971).

Overall this is a very weak argument.  You can’t legislate moral behavior, but blaming legislative attempts to do so for immoral acts is really quite bizarre, IMHO.

Overall this is a very weak argument.

That might be due to the fact that you stated it incompletely.  The real problem is not so much the empowering of groups that do this sort of thing, but the disempowering of groups that are able to fight it.  As you should know, when the criminal(and terrorist) element knows that it won’t face opposition, it grows stronger and bolder.  This is what McCain/Feingold has produced for us.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

The real problem is not so much the empowering of groups that do this sort of thing, but the disempowering of groups that are able to fight it.

This isn’t a restatement of what BB said, it’s a completely different argument.

How does McCain/Feingold “disempower” groups that can fight this sort of thing?  They are all on the same footing legally.  Indeed, the success of the SVBT campaign indeed seems to be a counter example to your argument.

I would say that sunshine laws have a place in politics.  The problem isn’t with them (inc. MF), or with the limits on special interest groups, but the free pass that liberal groups get with our MSM when they employ despicable tactics such as these.

Does anyone else find it more than a little ironic that attacks on the sanctity of our political process like this, or attacks on the sanctity of a private ballot such as the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act” are condoned and sponsored by people so presumptuous as to call themselves “Democrats”?

Of course, Eric Hoenecker headed up the People’s Democratic Republic of Germany and Kim Il Sung was the dictator who ran the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, and both of those monsters were proud to call themselves democrats too.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat: Sometimes, “guilt by association” is really “birds of a feather flock together”.  Good call.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

This isn’t a restatement of what BB said, it’s a
completely different argument.

And I offered it as such.  I never claimed it was a restatement of something I stated in the first place.
My original statement that this was a consequence of McCain/Feingold is accurate as stated.  Trying to nitpick the details doesn’t change that fact.  McCain/Feingold changed our political landscape for the worse in many ways.  An incomplete list of those changes isn’t a counter-argument to original truth.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

We’re back to the futility of trying to discuss anything with you again.

Most wealthy individuals already practice caution in their lives. These leftys are rank amatures.

We’re back to the futility of trying to discuss anything with you again.

It is futile to try to limit me to your parameters in this discussion, I agree.

If you want to discuss the effects of McCain/Feingold on this election, please go ahead.  If you want to snipe at me, good luck.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

How is this a surprise? Fascism is Leftism, and mostly vice versa.