Never judge a Clinton by their words. Judge their deeds. Mrs. Clinton has bought yet another campaign endorsement. The Associated Press:
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton [1] has agreed to help one-time candidate Tom Vilsack [1], who endorsed her on Monday, as he seeks to retire a campaign debt of more than $400,000.
(H/T: California Yankee, Red State [2] )
Mean while back at the ranch, Ryan Sager, New York Sun [3], reports this the fifth anniversary of McCain-Feingold [4]:
Five years ago today, President Bush signed into law the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. Today, American politics is so clean you could eat off it — except for the mud-slinging, back-scratching, favor-trading, influence-peddling, bald-faced lying, indictments, and convictions.
Mark Tapscott, Examiner [5], says repeal [6] McCain-Feingold:
Five years ago today President Bush signed into law the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 [7], the main sponsors of which were Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, and Sen. Russ Feingold, D-WI. Bush signed the bill despite having publicly expressed doubt that it was constitutional.
The law banned certain forms of political speech about incumbent congressmen for 30 days prior to a primary election and 60 days prior to a general election. Not since President Lincoln suspended habeus corpus and jailed prominent Copperhead newspaper editors during the Civil War has such a frontal assault been mounted against the First Amendment’s guarantee of every American’s right to express political opinion without official restraint.
(H/T: Paul, Power Line [8] )
Senator McCain said that money corrupts politics and that McCain-Feingold would get the corruption, that is the money, out of politics. As you can see by Mrs. Clinton’s purchasing of campaign endorsements, it has not.