Republicans try to stop MoveOn Money

[Killarney]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=usatoday/republicanstrytocutoffsoftmoneytoactivistgroups
Alarmed by the sudden emergence of political interest groups bent on defeating President Bush (news - web sites), Republicans are trying to limit the groups' ability to raise millions of dollars.


Basically, the Republicans are scared because groups like MoveOn are raising a lot of money and they're trying to make it illegal and put a stop to it, or at least make them be in legal limbo and unable to use their money during the election year.

[wtmusic]

1. There must be a reason

why so many are willing to cough up their hard-earned wages to defeat Bush:

1) There is a vast, evil, left-wing conspiracy bent on taking over the country; or

2) Bush is just not a very good president.

[kclown]

9. NOTA, friend:

3. There is a vast, evil, right-wing conspiracy that has
already taken over the country.

[Cat Atomic]

2. Jesus, George- the proles are waking up!

These guys really love democracy, don't they?

[thebaghwan]

3. I am sending $$$ to the organization of my choice right now

Assholes!

[Homer12]

4. Money = Free Speech, so...

....if they are trying to stop orginzations whom are against the GOP intrests from accepting my money, in affect the GOP is trying to squash my freedom of Speech.

The 1st admendment is on our side, as well as that horrid Supreme Court ruling.

The GOP is full of Hypocrites, the best hypocrites in the world.

[Kamikaze]

12. Money != Free Speech

Money does not equal free speech. If it did, Bill Gates would have a helluva lot more free speech than you, and I'm quite sure our rights are supposed to be equal. However, conservatives love to trot out this argument all the time, which makes it all the more ironic in their whining about Moveon.

[zbdent]

15. Um, the Republicans believe it so, enough to sic the SCOTUS on the issue

Every time the "campaign finance reform" issue comes up, it does become "free speech".

[LoZoccolo]

16. Let's put it this way.

We all have free speech,
But cash buys you more reach.

[Homer12]

19. No money does not = Free speech

But Repugs and conservatives think it does.


That's the problem, but at the same time with their logic they've got themselves into a catach-22 situtation with MoveON and other orginzations that accept soft-money in record amounts.

They didn't expect the "Left" or "Bush Opposition" to garner so much monetary support.

MoveOn and other orginzations have adapted quickly to the GOP money machine, and the campain finance law's.

Repugs and conservatives now are snivling hypocrites cause they thought they crushed democratic and bush opposition money making tactics with their raking in of hard-money within their own party.

[vi5]

5. Wait....but I thought money was speech?

Isn't that what they have been telling us all along?

[kcwayne]

6. Convinced me to make another contribution

The audacity of these fascists is unbelievable. Why don't Republicans want freedom in this country? They always roll out the flag and scream about protecting freedom when they are killing brown people. I guess they just want freedom to keep killing brown people.

[RobertSeattle]

7. MoveOn Gives us an unfair advantage!

BECAUSE
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Larry Elder, Brit Hume, Tony Snow, John McLaighlin, G Gordon Liddy, Dr. Laura, Michael Medved, George Will, Ollie North, Robert Novak, Tucker Carlson, Barbara Olson, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingrahamn, Peggy Noonan, William Safire, Andrew Sullivan, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, Bill Krystsol, Hugh Hewestt, David Frum, Brent Bozell, Charles Krauthammer, David Horowitz, Rupert Murdoch, Lawrence Kudlow, Steve Formes, the National Review, The Heritage Foundation, The Hoover Instutution, The Weekly Standard, The American Enterprise Institue, The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), The Cato Institute, The Club For Growth, The Federalist Society, NewsMax, TownHall, The NY Post, FreeRepublic.Com, any number of Christian Funamentalist ministers, and the NRA
TOLD ME SO

[gWbush is Mabus]

8. good one

[mike1963]

13. Wow, that's a gen-yoo-ine Axis of Nasty!

:D

[TXlib]

10. If the repugs succeed in stopping MoveOn

it will only be a matter of time before the only justice in this country comes from the muzzle of a rifle.

[tom_paine]

11. Exactly

It may already be the case, given that the Emperor and his Imperial Stooges are already not bound by any rule of law

[wicket]

14. Richard Mellon Scaife

What a bunch of hypocrites! They had no problem with this when people like Scaife were funding all sorts of anti-Democratic activities. They just can't stand it that we are catching up in funding!

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/04/07news.html

[leesa]

17. Now, how many publicly financed campaiging trips for Bush?

100s, 1000s...with enormously expensive police protection because everybody loves him so? I guess that's OK though.

[Indiana Democrat]

18. That's campaign finance reform for you...

HORRIBLE bill.