Conservative Voice

Did Reagan reverse every goofy thing he did, like raising taxes & sending GIs to Lebanon w/o weapons?
McCain is & always has been fairly conservative, which is 1000X better than Obamary.

As soon as McCain eats crow and starts to move to remove bad laws he pushed, then I will stop calling foul. Trampling the constitution isn’t a small matter.

Here is campaign finance I can go for…no limits, no public funds, anything can be said anytime…ie follow the constitution. Instead make all contributions an open book…that way we can determine if there were special favors for the donations.

I can forgive McCain a lot. I can’t forgive Obama anything. He is too much a Soros puppet and my worst nightmare if elected.

I’m weary of the all-or-nothing “purists” who hate McCain because he’s made some bad calls. If we turn into Canada South by electing Obama & more Dems in Congress, it will be partially the purists’ fault.

jgapinoy on March 5, 2008 at 9:09 AM

Purists? PURISTS!!!? Is that what I am for believing that Congressmen and the President should obey the Constitution, that they took their oath of office to defend? Is that what I am when I believe the President should enforce the immigration laws as written, as he is sworn to uphold?

It is the moderates who have infected our party with stupidity that have brought this upon us. Stop nominating RINOs and I’ll enthusiastically vote. But don’t you DARE place this blame at our feet!

And bad calls? McCain can’t even get half of the issues correct. Perhaps he should try out for weatherman instead!

Don’t call yourselves “Americans” then.

Indy Conservative on March 5, 2008 at 9:16 AM

Careful now. As you advocate free speech, you try to trample on it at the same time?

Buy Danish on March 5, 2008 at 10:15 AM

“Trample?” Not really. If you read carefully what I wrote, you will notice that I was calling those supporters of restricting Freedom of Speech: Hypocrites.

You can’t tell me that you’re an American while at the same time you don’t believe in the Constitution of the country you claim yours.

Secularists have spent the past 40 years taking control of public communication to control thought and shape policy. Schools, media, judiciary, entertainment. Conservatives live with a steady drumbeat of counterculture, largely financed by enemies of our founding principles. We are left with right on our side and little else to fight the good fight.

And then there is Soros:

Great, that’s all we need, some nut case hunting down donors.

right2bright on March 5, 2008 at 10:23 AM

This address, zip code information is already available at the FEC for hard money donations over a certain amount. ($300?)

I haven’t heard of anyone being stalked for their donations, unless it was by the media who were after people like Hsu.

That’s easy, make it easy to create media.

The more sources of information available, the harder it gets for one person or group to dominate all media.

It’s always been a myth that money dominates politics. A myth generated by those who can’t stand the fact that the American people have time and time again, rejected their politics.

There are people out there who hate the idea that other people win elections, and they try to find some “evil” to blame for that condition. At present, they blame the fact that they lose on other people spending money. So they try to get money out of elections.

Not much of a choice.

name of the donor, the zip code of the donor’s home address, the date of the donation, and the amount of the donation.
gabriel sutherland on March 5, 2008 at 10:11 AM

Great, that’s all we need, some nut case hunting down donors.
Some minority wants to give to the Republican party, and his/her name and zip code is plastered on the internet. Next thing you know, their house is being pelted by Oreo’s.

prepared to defend your giving.

and your life.

I believe McCain’s heart was in the right place when he pushed for this junk. Hopefully he’s learned his lesson, & he’ll push for it’s repeal when he’s President.

jgapinoy on March 5, 2008 at 8:55 AM

His heart was in the right place but his head was entirely elswhere…

America loved Hothead Harry Truman.

jgapinoy on March 5, 2008 at 9:10 AM

But he didn’t have to get elected for the people to grow to “love” him and he did not win his first election easily. He had to come from behind in 1948 to beat Dewey. At the time his public approval rating was 36%.

Don’t call yourselves “Americans” then.

Indy Conservative on March 5, 2008 at 9:16 AM

Careful now. As you advocate free speech, you try to trample on it at the same time?

Neo on March 5, 2008 at 9:11 AM

Good to see you here. I anticipate an improvement in the level of discourse here.

This puts the information in the hands of whomever wishes to view it, be it voters, press, or anyone else. If you want to give a bunch of money, great. But everyone will know about it so be prepared to defend your giving.

Instead, it has almost completely eliminated accountability for its use, as ever-increasing regulation pushed the money away from candidates and parties and towards shadowy organizations that provide deniability to the politicians.

Absolutely!

The second related problem is a small item called the First Amendment.

The deal killer. Period. End of story.

Great post.

We now have a situation where political activists cannot buy TV ads criticizing politicians with[in] 60 days of an election

Provisions like this seem to be designed to intentionally preserve incumbency since almost half the country doesn’t decide who they’re voting for until the last few weeks or days.

I, for one, would be happy to see CFR scrapped. I always thought it was a restriction of speech and a colossal waste of time. Thanks for that, by the way, Sen. McCain. As for public financing, I never check the box on my tax return that asks for a $1 contribution because I don’t want my dollar (or 50 cents of it) going to a socialist Democrat.

Hillary’s win guarantees at least one more month and more likely five more months of heated campaigning by Obama and the Clintons, not only in Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico and a few other remaining primary states, but also stops across the country to woo super-delegates and fundraisers to pull in more cash, which they’re going to burn through between now and August. McCain may have the ability to stand on the sidelines and act holier-than-thou about fundraising as the big $$$ advantage both Clinton and Obama have over him right now dwindles due to the added expense of actually having to campaign all spring and summer.

That doesn’t mean McCain’s right about CFR, or that the current system isn’t a disaster of 527 groups that simply do the bidding of certain candidates outside of the federal laws. But it does mean McCain may not have to be openly hypocritical right away about his beloved law, since the money-on-hand for each party come September figures to be a lot closer to even now (assuming Hillary doesn’t have another Norman Hsu already at work) than it would have been if Obama had swept Ohio and Texas.

Don’t call yourselves “Americans” then.

Indy Conservative on March 5, 2008 at 9:16 AM

All citizens are entitled to call themselves American, thank you very much. Don’t dictate to people who is a citizen or not based on their level of ideological purity.

I’m weary of the all-or-nothing “purists” who hate McCain because he’s made some bad calls. If we turn into Canada South by electing Obama & more Dems in Congress, it will be partially the purists’ fault.

jgapinoy on March 5, 2008 at 9:09 AM

Spot on. But look at it this way -most of the moaners, whingers, defeatists and pseudo-GOPers would be moaning, whinging and spitting bile whatever the circumstance. It’s what miserablists do. That’s why it is pseudo-Republican, because essentially it reveals a Democratic/hard left mindset. An obsession with ideological purity was the rock on which the Soviet Union was built and on which the forces of democracy in Russia were defeated.

CFR was based on the need for political accountability, and some mechanism needs to be in place for ensuring that. I’m not saying the present system is helpful – I don’t believe that – but the issue arose in the first place for good reason.

Pax americana on March 5, 2008 at 9:05 AM

As far as I’m concerned, there should be no restrictions on Freedom of Speech, none whatsoever.

I don’t care about “good reason” or not.

Marxism and Nazism “arose in the first place for good reason.”

Campaign Finance Reform, as far as I’m concerned, is unconstitutional. And those who approved it are in violation of the Constitution of the United Sates.

You should be allowed to spend as much money as you want, on anybody you want without any restrictions, none whatsoever.

I can’t believe this is happening is a country that is claiming to carry the torch of Freedom.

Don’t call yourselves “Americans” then.

Politicians don’t want change, if they did they’d really fix Social Security, revamp the entire tax code, promote family core values (mother, father nuclear family) and create new business opportunities by dropping silly environmental and other regulatory restrictions on energy exploration in this country instead of stomping on everyone and taking their wallet and demanding we say thank you sir, may I have another.

his temper will be his undoing

America loved Hothead Harry Truman.