The Miranding of McCain
Ernesto Miranda was born nearly 67 years ago and began a life of trouble and crime almost from the very start. You know his name because he escaped a rape conviction on appeal to the Supreme Court since the police never told him his rights when he was arrested. That case established what are now universally known as “Miranda Rights.”
What you might not know is that after years in and out of jail for various crimes, Ernesto Miranda was stabbed to death in a Phoenix bar fight in 1976. His killer? He was never prosecuted because of a lack of evidence and the fact that he wouldn’t cooperate with the police investigation . . . after he was read his Miranda Rights.
Talk about irony.
Here’s another irony: John McCain, the man who brought you the campaign finance “reform” law that bears his name, may now be limited by his own rules to spending only $5 million between now and September while his general election opponent can spend that much every week.
How little money is that? Consider that it has to last McCain nearly seven more months during which time he has to build campaign staffs in fifty states–including multiple offices in some key states–all requiring rent, utilities, phones, computers, etc., etc. He has to spend money on opposition research which will probably cost in the neighborhood of $1 million. He needs signs, bumper stickers, flyers, mailers, etc., all of which take time to print, and so if they can’t be bought until after the nominating convention, will put him at a serious disadvantage.
John McCain is the recent recipient of two very big “I told you so’s.” For years talk radio conservatives have said that campaign finance “reform” is a bad idea and that he shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking that the national media was his friend. In the last two days now, John McCain has been stabbed twice by rules of his own making.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:14 am
[...] Bob Krumm points out that the very campaign finance rules the Republican nominee was instrumental in putting in place will now hamstring him during the only period in this campaign where he could have a demonstrable advantage: John McCain is the recent recipient of two very big “I told you so’s.” For years talk radio conservatives have said that campaign finance “reform” is a bad idea and that he shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking that the national media was his friend. In the last two days now, John McCain has been stabbed twice by rules of his own making. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 am
[...] How’s that campaign finance working out for ya? Posted at 12:00 pm in PoliticsAdd comments John McCain, the man who brought you the campaign finance “reform” law that bears his name, may now be limited by his own rules to spending only $5 million between now and September while his general election opponent can spend that much every week. – BobKrumm.com [...]
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 am
[...] Bob Krumm is discussing this Washington Post story about how McCain could end up being a victim of his own disgusting legislation. [...]
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Game over for the GOP and McCain
McCain’s response to the NYT – Newsweek catches him in a LIE
Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/id/114505
A sworn deposition that Sen. John McCain gave in a lawsuit more than five years ago appears to contradict one part of a sweeping denial that his campaign issued this week to rebut a New York Times story about his ties to a Washington lobbyist.
On Wednesday night the Times published a story suggesting that McCain might have done legislative favors for the clients of the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, who worked for the firm of Alcalde & Fay.
The lie:
The McCain campaign issued a point-by-point response that depicted the letters as routine correspondence handled by his staff—and insisted that McCain had never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the matter.
The lie confirmed by McCain himself:
“I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue,” McCain said in the Sept. 25, 2002, deposition obtained by NEWSWEEK. :
Transcript where McCain confirms the lie:
ABRAMS: Do you know were they got the information?
MCCAIN: No, but I would add, I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue. […]
ABRAMS: Did you speak to the company’s lobbyist about these matters?
MCCAIN: I don’t recall if it was Mr. Paxson or the company’s lobbyist or both.
ABRAMS: But you did speak to him?
MCCAIN: I’m sure I spoke with him, yes.
Ed: I think that you’ve commented in the wrong thread. But to bring your topic back on topic, if the “scandal” you hope for actually exists, then you may have swerved into a solution to both GOP problems: a forced McCain withdrawal before September means that there is no spending limit. That’s a definite Romney advantage. (Sorry Huckabee fans: he won’t be the nominee.)
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
The mystical transformation of McCain; does he at last apprehend the nexus between money and free speech in politics?
“Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Burthen. Ding-dong
Hark now I hear them—ding-dong, bell.”
[Shakespeare, “The Tempest,” I, ii, 397]
February 25th, 2008 at 3:35 am
As an Obama supporter, I’ve never appreciated irony more than I do now.
You guys are kinda screwed, don’t ya think? I don’t mean that in a snarky way, I mean there’s no way he can keep up with Barack in a general election.
I dunno. Maybe if he puts a true conservative on the ticket he can do a little better, but he’s still not going to have the money.
How do you see an Obama/McCain match up?
February 25th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Actually, the irony seems to be that Senator Obama is reportedly blocking the timely appointment of Bush’s nominee Hans von Spakovsky to the Federal Election Commission, thus denying the FEC the quorum needed to take prompt action on issues before it and placing himself in the an apparent conflict of interest by denying timely justice from the FEC to John McCain, his potential opponent for election to the presidency of the United States.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120389958925789389.html