McCain: “Clean Government” More Important Than 1st Amendment
Posted on April 30, 2006
Hat tip: Tapscott’s Copy Desk
He [Michael Graham] also mentioned my abridgement of First Amendment rights, i.e. talking about campaign finance reform….I know that money corrupts….I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I’d rather have the clean government.”
It will be interesting to watch the McCainiacs spin this one. We wonder how the ACLU might feel about this one. How does taking one’s ability to criticize government officials clean up government?
A commenter at FR provides this pic:
Senator John McCain has many fine qualities, but an understanding of free speech is not among them. He would trade our primary birthright for a mess of bureaucracy and trust it to operate in our interests while limiting our ability to criticize it. That path leads to autocracy, corruption, and ruin.
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He is right. The problem is that under his proposal we would get neither. From what I have it sounds like a way to stretch the muzzle that is on churches to other organizations and individuals. I do not see how that will clean up government. It sounds more like a way to keep those in power from being booted out of power than a way to keep the government clean.
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