John McCain's "Clean Government"

George Will reports on dangerous assumptions of John McCain and those who want to regulate speech:

Proof that incumbent politicians are highly susceptible to corruption is the fact that the government they control is shot through with it. Yet that government should be regarded as a disinterested arbiter, untainted by politics and therefore qualified to regulate the content, quantity and timing of speech in campaigns that determine who controls the government. In the language of McCain's Imus appearance, the government is very much not "clean," but it is so clean it can be trusted to regulate speech about itself.

An institutiton that's based on coercion can never be trusted to respect free speech.That's the nature of government.