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McCain, the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee, suggested casino magnate Sheldon Adelson’s $10 million contribution to a pro-Romney super PAC was a conduit for Adelson to use profits from properties in Macau to shape American elections. McCain also criticized the Supreme Court ruling that allows individuals and corporations to make such unlimited donations to nominally independent political action committees.

“That is a great deal of money. And, again, we need a level playing field and we need to go back to the realization that Teddy Roosevelt had: that we have to have a limit on the flow of money and that corporations are not people,” McCain said in an interview with PBS’ ”NewsHour”.

The comment about corporations was at odds with Romney, who last year told a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that “corporations are people, my friend.” Romney’s critics seized on the comment as proof the wealthy candidate favored businesses over individuals.

The NewsHour later released a transcript of an unaired portion of the interview where journalist Judy Woodruff reminded McCain of Romney’s comments about corporations and his seeming split with Romney.

“I think that in that context he was talking about they are made up of people and that’s true in that context,” McCain said. “But to be corporations for purposes of involving campaigns, to be treated the same as people, I just don’t agree with that.”

McCain, a Romney rival in 2008 and now one of his top supporters, said the Supreme Court got it wrong in Citizens United, the court case that paved the way for super PACs. He called the decision “the most misguided, naive, uninformed, egregious decision of the United States Supreme Court, I think, in the 21st century.”

“I just wish one of them had run for county sheriff,” McCain said of the justices.

Pwns wrote:McCain and Brotha Barrack both got plenty of money from the megabanks that ran the global economy into the ground, and we saw the effects in Frank-Dodd that affects small banks and credit unions more than the big boys. Does it matter if the money goes through Super PACs or if it comes from "employees" of those companies?

At least having more corporate contributions will dilute politicians loyalties.

kalm wrote:

Pwns wrote:McCain and Brotha Barrack both got plenty of money from the megabanks that ran the global economy into the ground, and we saw the effects in Frank-Dodd that affects small banks and credit unions more than the big boys. Does it matter if the money goes through Super PACs or if it comes from "employees" of those companies?

At least having more corporate contributions will dilute politicians loyalties.

Agreed. Get all the money out.

kalm wrote:

Pwns wrote:McCain and Brotha Barrack both got plenty of money from the megabanks that ran the global economy into the ground, and we saw the effects in Frank-Dodd that affects small banks and credit unions more than the big boys. Does it matter if the money goes through Super PACs or if it comes from "employees" of those companies?

At least having more corporate contributions will dilute politicians loyalties.

Agreed. Get all the money out.

Ivytalk wrote:

kalm wrote:
Agreed. Get all the money out.

You really do believe in fairy tales.

No homo.

kalm wrote:

Ivytalk wrote: You really do believe in fairy tales.

No homo.

A fairy tale would be the belief that money is the same as speech.

HI54UNI wrote:John McCain

Look at me! Look at me! I'm still relevant! I'm still important! Media please love me like you did before! I still love you! I'm sorry I said all those bad things about your hero Barack! Please love me!

Ivytalk wrote:

kalm wrote:
A fairy tale would be the belief that money is the same as speech.

Don't start. You'll never convince me, and I'll never convince you. Remember, one definition of insanity is trying the same thing multiple times and expecting a different result.