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What is campaign finance reform, and why does it upset conservatives so much? - Dave - 11-18-2012 01:09 PM
I've read about McCain/Feingold on wikipedia and on other sites and I don't really understand what it is and why conservatives dislike it. Could you please dumb it down for me? Thanks
- GlobalWarming - 11-18-2012 01:17 PM
EVERYTHING upsets or scares conservatives these days.
- countryfirst - 11-18-2012 01:17 PM
Conservatives need massive amounts of cash to sell their propaganda and don't want any part of a bill that might limit their donations from corporations and lobbyists.
Keep in mind, that without attack ads, and fearmongering, and swiftboating, Republicans can't win elections.
- IceT - 11-18-2012 01:17 PM
It is bad legislation and infringes on our freedom of speech rights! But as a Leftie I am sure you are OK with shutting up dissenters!
Who was it in the last campaign who had to give back money? Oh that would be Hillary and Obama!
Who was it that was getting campaign contributions from people such as Mickey Mouse, D. Duck etc..... so that they could not be traced? Oh that would be Obama!
- Unka Dano - 11-18-2012 01:17 PM
They won't have the lobbyist money to grease their wheels anymore. In short, they'll have to be honest.
- harry g - 11-18-2012 01:17 PM
it is the possible way candidates collect money the democrats find ways to hide the fact that they are receiving illegal funds
- I AM SAVAGE! - 11-18-2012 01:17 PM
Campaign finance is about the Presidential Candiates accepting public funds.....which means they are ONLY allowed to spend $86 Million EACH.
And that's it...no more.
The purpose is to prevent special interst groups from funneling millions of dollars to one candidate, which would give that candidate an unfair advantage in the campaign.
Both McCain and Obama promised to accept Public funding, and only McCain kept that promise.
Obama raised almost $700 Million, and many were from illegal donators - including from his aunt, who is an illegal alien.
- Java - 11-18-2012 01:17 PM
You got it backwards. Conservatives are for campaign reform. Look at the last campaign... it was Obama that broke his pledge about accepting contributions.
- Morpheus - 11-18-2012 01:17 PM
"Conservatives" are wetting their little beds in fear and trembling these days - but campaign finance reform is a BIG SCARY one for republicans - no more bribes!!! Are you kidding??!!
- bluefootedpig - 11-18-2012 01:17 PM
It has to do with campagin money. Most people who support Republicans are business people and wealthy people. They dont want to see their contibutions turned away.
So republicans get money from businesses while democrats get it from private donations / unions (with about 90% coming from unions).
So this reform would limit soft money. What is soft money (aka soft donation)? it is when you donate to the republican / democrat PARTY and they in turn buy ads to promote their canidate.
I find the preivous answers funny as Obama was shown to spend over 2 times the amount that McCain did on ads and even more of a ratio when it came to smear ads.
The point being, is that it should be my right as an american to give as much money as i see fit to whomever i want. This would limit that freedom to only X amount of dollars. It also would then give more power to the worker over the business owner, giving the worker more say over the economy.
If you ever wondered what that voice sounds like, it sounds like communism. I hate to bring that word out, but every communist revolution has ALWAYS been from the workers. In fact you need a very strong lower and middle class to even get it started.
America has not has this issue becuase for the longest time, most people were business owners busting their balls for income, so any tax that hurt their income they would vote it down. But more and more people are not doing their own business but instead living their life on a job. So now people who do jobs think that real work means 40 hours a week, earning money for someone else, and then they wonder, "if i put this many hours at work, why do i get paid so little?"... a smart person would say that you should start your own business then, but with this entitlement generation, they instead want more incentives to continue to just work and not start a business.
That is why things like medicare, social security, and almost any welfare program is started, to help those who are not willing to put forth the effort to actually own a business.
If everyone owned a business, i swear our laws would all fully support free market, but it is the worker than wants restrictions.
Anyway, republicans dislike it becuase for every business owner making a donation, there are about 100 works making a donation too. If you limit the donation to 100 bucks, then that means the workers can donate 10,000 dollars but the company can only donate 100. Does that sound fair? When the workers have more power over the business than the business owner themselves?