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Entry: McCain: Getting the Candidate We Deserve Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/mccain_getting_the_candidate_we_deserve#15950 Post contents: If Rush and "Savage" Weiner are conservatives, then I have never been one. Though I am not voting for McCain (or anyone else for President, if our quixotic jouster Ron isn't in the November plebiscite) I must confess to being a little befuddled why McCain Feingold is always characterized as "an attack on Free Speech." It's a half hearted attempt to tamp down the big money (mostly from corporate sources) that corrupts our process. Not being able to purchase all the millions of dollars t.v. spots available is somehow equated with restriction on speech.. But it's not. It's a restriction on that big money unduly influencing our process, and buying our politicians. They should all be on a level field. Everyone should be playing by the same rules, with the same financial restrictions. Nobody is keeping them from flapping their gums and saying whatever the like. Money is not speech. It's power. And it corrupts. Keep it out of our politicians pockets. McCain has tried, in flawed fashion, to do that. And I respect him for it. Sent at: 2008 12 02