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Sweet video, I like this one better. |
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Nice Captin. I guess Thompson wasn’t really the "true" conservative, huh? |
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hahah what a loser |
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Sarcastic - Thompson has since regretted his support of that legislation. I haven’t heard McCain or Bush say the same. |
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Sarcastic - Thompson has since regretted his support of that legislation. I haven’t heard McCain or Bush say the same. No, Thompson has not said that he regretted his support, that’s just flat out false.
He has suggested that "he’s not ready to go there yet, but maybe the caps on hard money should be removed".
Hardly regret. |
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No, Thompson has not said that he regretted his support, that’s just flat out false. Actually he has and I sat right there and watched him do so during a TV interview. Now I didn’t record it and I don’t know if it’s available, but I can certainly vouch for the fact that when I saw him asked about that specific point, he voiced regret for having supported it because the law didn’t at all do what he thought it would do. Unfortunately, other than me questioning the TV about what he expected it to do, the interviewer never followed up on his explanation. |
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Actually he has and I sat right there and watched him do so during a TV interview I don’t doubt that you saw what you saw, but if that was going to be his official position, you would think that he would have corrected his recorded quotes in the Fund interview in th WSJ.
Further, it would be just too convenient that all this time he has not given the impression that he had any regrets, and when he runs for President having to face conservative primary voters, he suddenly has a position more in line with their thinking.
Further, McCain-Feingold-Thompson was not just some bill that he voted for.
From the George Will column...In 1997, Thompson chaired a Senate committee investigating 1996 election spending. In its final report, issued in 1998, Thompson’s committee recommended a statutory "restriction on issue advocacy" during "a set period prior to an election" when the speech includes "any use of a candidate’s name or image." And in 1999, Thompson co-sponsored legislation containing what became, in 2002, the McCain-Feingold blackout periods imposed on any television or radio ad that "refers to" a candidate for federal office — a portion of which the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in June.
Thompson, contrary to his current memories, was deeply involved in expanding government restrictions on political speech generally and the ban on issue ads specifically. Yet he told Ingraham, "I voted for all of it," meaning McCain-Feingold, but said "I don’t support that" provision of it.
Oh? Why, then, did he file his own brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold McCain-Feingold, stressing Congress’s especially "compelling interest" in squelching issue ads that "influence" elections?
Most lamely, Thompson takes credit for McCain-Feingold doubling the amount of "hard money" an individual can give to a candidate, which he says reduces the advantages of incumbency. But that is absurd: Most hard money flows to incumbents.
Ingraham asked why government should be telling individuals how much they can give to fund political speech by candidates they support. Thompson replied: "Why should the government . . . tell a loan officer that he cannot accept money from someone trying to get a loan from him . . . and then go ahead and give that person a loan? . . . I mean, it’s bribery in the real world."
So he believes, as zealous regulators of political speech do, that political contributions are incipient bribes — but that bribery begins with contributions larger than $2,300.
On McCain-Feingold, if you don’t like McCain, you can’t like Thompson, at least not rationally.
But to deplore McCain and wax nostalgic about what could have been with Thompson defies logic.
You are probably fortunate that Thompson did not win the nomination, because you would have been shooting steam (Anchor Steam?) from your ears when in the general election campaign, he would have used McCain-Feingold-Thompson as a political asset to woo less libertarian voters.
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