To: Brian P. who wrote (12982 ) 2/28/2000 10:36:00 PM From: Brian P. Read Replies (1) | Respond to
OK, now you've got me thinking about conspiracies. Here's my contribution:National Right To Life Committee , for example, have formed alliances with business lobbyists , who provide soft money to Republican campaign committees . These same committees then funnel millions of dollars in "educational" contracts back to oufits like the National Right To Life Committee . The business lobbyists in return get access to congressman they have "bought". McCain's ban on soft money would end this cozy arrangement and the Republican establishment can't stand it. That's why they hate him. Of course he wants to end this cozy arrangement not because he has something against conservative groups backing Republican candidates, but because those business interests don't give money to the National Right To Life Committee because they care about abortion. Those business lobbyists want to buy congressmen and their votes for entirely different ends. In other words, the business lobbyists get at the congressmen for their own private business purposes by ingratiating themselves financially with the conservative single-issue groups that the congressmen care about and listen to. That's the corruption of politics that McCain, the radical reformer, want to clean up and the establishment--i.e., both the business groups and the single-issue groups entwined with them--hates his guts for it. It's an old story.American Prospect . The not-so-crackpot assassination theory, however, is entirely my own (vbg)
