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May 02, 2006
John McCain thinks the 1st Amendment is expendable
If you think John McCain is the perfect RINO to counteract all those genuinely rightwing Republicans trying to take over the party, watch this video.
"If I have to choose between the 1st Amendment and clean government, I would pick clean government."
As Stop the ACLU points out, "How does taking away one’s ability to criticize government officials clean up government?"
The ACLU website doesn't have anything about this comment as of today. The ACLU has repeatedly challenged the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act, so I hope they publicize this remark.
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Judith | 05/02/06 at 08:22 AM | Categories: - From Sea to Shining Sea
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I was quite an admirer of John McCain and I resolve to try to avoid reading anything more about him, lest that admiration take even further hits.
I think this is what they call a false dichotomy since there's ample evidence that if you don't have a First Amendment or something similar you aren't going to have clean government.
A government that operates without open and public scrutiny may or may not be clean, but one that doesn't is very unlikely to be.
Alex Bensky | May 2, 2006 02:44 PM
That is going to go down like Kerry's "I was for the war before I was against it" statement. That is going to hurt McCain down the road. It wil be one of those holes in which he digs more to get out, the deeper the hole will be.
Theway2k | May 2, 2006 08:27 PM
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