Failed National Republican Committee Chairman Mike Duncan announced that the Republican Party will file two lawsuits to overturn McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation.
“We will bring two federal suits tomorrow to strengthen the Republican Party,” Mr. Duncan told The Washington Times.
Mr. Duncan said one suit will be filed in the District of Columbia to strike down the soft-money ban that is the central tenet of the McCain-Feingold Act — formally known as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. “Soft money” is largely unrestricted contributions from wealthy individuals, corporations and labor unions.
The second suit will be in a Louisiana federal court to strike down the limits under the law Mr. McCain co-sponsored with Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat, that control coordination between parties and their candidates.
“It prohibits us from spending over $84,000 in coordination with a candidate in a congressional race,” Mr. Duncan said. “That means we have to find some group to raise and spend money but without any coordination” with the candidate, his campaign or the RNC.
“That does not allow for a unified message,” he said. “We don’t think there is anything corrupting about coordinating with a candidate.”
It occurs to me that, perhaps, the time to file these lawsuits may have been a year ago. Guess that wouldn’t have gone over too well then, when they were trying to convince us that nominating a moderate like John McCain was the only way to defeat the Democrats in 2008. Instead, his anti-First Amendment law led, in part, to his defeat.
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“Moderate” McCain…..
Asides from his ProLife stand, I’m not even sure ‘moderate’ is even sufficient to describe the Mackjob.
Actually, he’s a MINO – ‘moderate in name only’ —— as this McCain-Feingold demonstrates.
As was written in an excellent article on American Thinker, McCain has been a consistent Reagan Democrat since first elected in the early 1980s ….. pro-defense and ProLife…. but in bed with Democrat leftists on everything else.
I got in heated debates all over the Internet in Dec. ’07, warning against nominating McCain who anybody could see was a warn out icon of yesteryear….. lacking anything new to say except “I’m a maverick” … and even THAT is old as the hills.
I was a big Romney supporter, not because I agree with everything Mitt Romney has ever said or done, but because Romney was clearly the most dynamic and electable candidate among the slate of Republicans.
Romney would likely have picked a solid conservative from the West (perhaps Sarah Palin) …. and the GOP would have been more energized and cohesive, with the balls to tell the truth about Obama and his network of anti-business, terror supporting buddies.
One more thing…
If the national GOP, or state Republican leaders for that matter, don’t get a handle on this fraudulent early voting, 30% absentee voting, and illegal immigration voting, then America might as well join the banana republics where ballots are routinely stacked.
Not to sound like the hysterical DemWacko’s following the Florida 2000 episode, but let’s check the record.
The Ohio Democrat elections secretary ruled that the GOP could not even be present nor could they check for ballot integrity, when hundreds of thousands of absentee/early voting ballots were driven or otherwise delivered to the respective precincts prior to the election.
The Dems then got some federal circuit judge to rule in favor of Democrat privacy …. saying that no address is needed to be a legal Ohil resident….. and the rest is history.
Ironically, in Oklahoma, where they don’t have early voting…. and they have locktight ballot integrity….. Obama got only 37% of the votes… or there abouts.
Now, no one is saying that Obama would have won Oklahoma if that state had allowed early voting …. but how in the freakin world can the GOP call itself a serious political party if it just ignores the huge potential fraud that is systemic with unfettered absentee early voting.