Originally posted by Kosh
He's only the indrustries henchman. This is why all campaign contributions should be illegal in this country.
I don't think I need to point out the stupidity of this statement, not to mention that it is completely against the first amendment, which protects Political Speech above all others.
How exactly would candidates of less financial stature than Donald Trump pay for the ungodly amount of TV/Radio time they need to reach they're constituency?
The Kerry campaign(I use this as an example for you socialists out there) has spent somewhere in the area of $40 million on ads in the last 6 months, not to mention the free advertising that the "Mainstream Media" gives him.
A better example, let's say you have a particular candidate for public office that you feel is a bad choice, let's use Kerry again since he's got a situation exactly like this going on right now. Mr. Kerry has based his campaign up to this point on his military service in Vietnam in late 1967 and early 1968, all four and a half months of it. Now I will celebrate him for his service, but I cannot overlook his record since. Especially when he all but lied to a Congressional commitee on his return. But, to stay on topic, his compatriots from the swiftboat squad he was in and several of his own crewmates, who probably know him better than his wife, feel that he is not fit to be Commander-in-Cheif of the United States armed forces. They have banded together to publicize the portions of his record that he has apparently fudged on a bit. Now whether you agree with them(and me and a lot of other people), or not, it is the first of their enumerated rights that they be able to do that without obstruction or impedence.
McCain/Feingold is am unconstitutional travesty of a law that George Bush should never have signed.