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FEC and Free Speech

by John Cole|  July 29, 20051:29 pm| 8 Comments

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Mike Krempasky at Red State has a new favorite Democrat.

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  1. 1.

    BinkyBoy

    July 29, 2005 at 1:40 pm

    Campaign Finance Reform is intended to take away the stacked deck.

    Mr. Krapmasky made no real argument, he made no concrete foundations for anything, he just tries out random words and they happened to form something akin to a paragraph and he posted it.

    I don’t know why I even follow your RedState links, they rarely make much sense.

  2. 2.

    John S.

    July 29, 2005 at 1:54 pm

    Red State…

    That sort of smacks of Communism. I don’t think Mr. McCarthy would be pleased at all with good Americans identifying themselves as thus.

    Sarcsam off.

  3. 3.

    John Cole

    July 29, 2005 at 1:54 pm

    Umm. The point was to follow the link Krempasky provided to the words from the Democrat.

    Canpaign Finance Reform took away no stacked deck- it stacked the deck in favor of incumbents. I am beginning to wonder why I read your comments, they rarely make such sense.

  4. 4.

    John S.

    July 29, 2005 at 2:19 pm

    Get a sense of humor, John.

  5. 5.

    John Cole

    July 29, 2005 at 2:34 pm

    Umm. I was talking to Binky, John S.

  6. 6.

    John S.

    July 29, 2005 at 5:26 pm

    Oh, well that explains a lot then.

    Sorry for the misunderstanding…it’s been a long day.

  7. 7.

    Jim Dandy

    July 29, 2005 at 6:30 pm

    Krempasky’s right. The question is, how do we get rules that don’t stack the deck in favor of incumbents when it’s incumbents writing the laws?

  8. 8.

    Krempasky

    July 31, 2005 at 7:10 pm

    Binky, for someone who can’t seem to spell a name I can’t really give your criticism too much credit.

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