John McCain: SuperPACs Will ‘Destroy Political Process,’ Predicts ‘Scandal’ Because of Them

John McCain has been consistent in his finance reform positions for years and years. He’s right. The failure of the campaign finance reforms he has sponsored have resulted in lobbyists and their corporate sponsors owning our government and putting voters at the BOTTOM of the DC food chain. That is not the framer’s vision. This is not Romney’s position. He was yelling “Corporations are People” from his campaign podium, remember? He SUPPORTS the onerous Citizens United ruling. That’s why McCain won’t go the whole nine yards against it. A constitutional amendment to do away with the Citizen’s United ruling is now needed. For real.

In the Presidents first state of the union speech, he specifically blasted the Supreme Court’s ruling. Justice Roberts, who attended, became all flustered. The conservative court seemed to think that buying votes and influence was a violation of the PACS freedom of speech rights.

Any mafia guy in jail for graft and influence pedaling should appeal using the court’s ruling.

But when pressed on why he doesn’t publicly pressure SuperPACs to stop the negative ads, Romney responded, “The idea of having campaigns point out distinctions between candidates is a good idea to get underway right now.” Romney adding, “The heat we have in the kitchen right now is nothing compared to what’s going to happen with Obama’s hell’s kitchen.”

Translation of Romney’s double speak: “Don’t change anything today, wait until after MY upcoming election. Because I will benefit greatly from all this anonymous corporate cash being spent on me. After the upcoming election – still don’t change anything. In case I lose and want to run again….. “

President Obama was Correct last year in the State of the Union Address that the Supreme Court was WRONG with this decision. And, back then the folks on the right were saying that President Obama was Un-American. Such a CROCK! The Supreme Court WAS the LAST branch of our Government that I truly trusted and now they’ve BLOWN it. I’d now like the voters in this Nation to be able to DEMAND TERM-LIMITS for these BOZOS too!

John McCain is the worst Rino of them all.

His willingness to subvert the Constitution on a ‘bedrock principle of political speech, and seek the imprisonment of people engaged in simple advocating of a candidate, is an anathema to the 1st Amendment.

McCain / Feingold was ALSO struck down because, like its authors, it was pure EUROTRASH thinking the Founders gave their lives to get away from.

..sorry, but the big censors in the sky won’t allow me to make a literate comment! Go to another network not super pacd with ObamaBucks.

FOUNDERS1791 | JANUARY 13, 2012, 2:28 PM 2:28 PM…The modern constitutional issue arises from equating money to free speech. The results of doing so were never anticipated by the framers in the ways we see occuring today. If one accepts the equivalence of the two, as you do, then all supporting rhetoric flows freely and neatly wrapped in an American flag. However, given the framers could have never anticipated the modern manifestations of making the two the same, such conventional rhetoric, while valid when appropriately applied, is not appropriate in this case. That is particularly born out by the current state of political affairs that we witness in the corporate (and union) sponsored DC lobbyist culture that simply uses money to buy representatives and coerce, by threat of suspension of campaign funds, legislation that damages voters as exemplified by the economic meltdown, which was brought by lobbyists’ through deregulation and self-enrichment centered social engineering policies. The Euro aristocracy has been replaced by the American aristocracy, who have similarly disproportionate power over those whom they now rule by virtue of the money at their command. In this way the vision of the framers is thwarted so constitutional reform is justified. Money is not free speech. Unions and corporations are not people who are entitled to free speech merely by said legal entity’s decision to spend profits or dues on political campaigns. ‘Lobby’, or ‘talk’ until blue in the face, but permit none of their money into campaigns. It’s not free speech. It’s corruption of government. Money equated to the corruption of government is a simple and long recognized truth that no party can ever rise above, so reforms from the electorate must occur on a regular basis through such things as laws and when necessary, through constitutional amendment.

SAMEAGAIN | JANUARY 13, 2012, 3:26 PM….

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SAMEAGAIN… the problem is FOUNDERS1791 will not understand a word that you said. Too complicated for him / her.

“but it is a true Majority wins”……The founding fathers sorted through this and called it “the tyranny of the majority”, which is why we have the electoral college.

DEANBOB…since when is it a union’s purpose, or a corporation’s purpose, to act as your proxy for political elections? Did you sign off on that? Should it be constitutional even if you did? A premise that unions and corporations are entitled to be your political representatives undermines our system and any discussions about it. If they have a business interest in a legislative matter, there is nothing to stop them from lobbying representatives so as to educate them on issues affecting them. But introducing money into that transaction is corrupt, pure and simple. Just get rid of corporate and union money. Leave everything else the same.

This supreme court decision needs to be overturned. It was bad enough that lobbyist’s have bought our politicians in Washington but, now we have the great “Military Industrial Complex” buying our elections.

We were warned many years ago about this by president Eisenhower when he said in his 1960 speech, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist”.

These words have come home to roost as big business which makes up this complex has now started buying and influencing our elections. Please everyone at least give yourself the time to read this speech and realize just how dangerous the rise of these “super pacs” have become.

There should be no political donations allowed by businesses, unions, PACs, the Mafia or any other organizations. Free speech is meant for individuals. All donations should be limited to a certain amount by individuals only.