Posted on 10/19/2008 3:36:58 PM PDT by george76
When the Democratic presidential candidate reneged on his pledge to take public financing for the general election, campaign watchdog groups and newspaper editorialists pounced. They all hoped he would help salvage a broken campaign finance system.
"People will look back at 2008 as the year that Barack Obama once and for all destroyed public financing as we know it," said Todd Harris, a Republican strategist who worked on McCain's 2000 presidential campaign. "It will be very difficult four years from now for any candidate to make the case that they should participate in public financing given the obvious financial advantage that Obama has received by opting out."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Can we say foreign nationals ?
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McCain is battling an anti-American who is funded by foreign interests.
Is Soros even a citizen?
How about this idea?
Once the elections are over and all campaign bills are paid, ALL EXCESS money goes to help pay off the national debt.
This was “That One’s” FIRST BIG LIE after he picked up his pipe to lead the ‘RATS (and the rest of us) towards Socialism/Communism.
No rational candidate will opt into public financing unless they believe they cannot raise more outside the system.
Of course, we shouldn’t be surprised if the lib Mediascum still pressure conservative candidates to announce that they are committed to public finance of their campaigns. Only leftists are allowed to pull the kind of 180 Obama has done, where he can publicly commit to staying within the campaign finance system and then scrap it as soon as his team believes he will raise more $$$ outside it.
Liberal “ideals” and “public policy” are easily discarded whenever they prove inconvenient.
The campaign finance system has long been a liberal “reform” goal to limit Republican fundraising superiority. WOW, the instant the Demagogues have a campaign in which they can raise more, suddenly all the platitudes we have been hearing for so many years go straight out the window.
It will be another sad irony if McCain’s campaign fails due to his own prominent support of “campaign finance reform” since that whole movement has now seriously disadvantaged McCain against a ruthless and dishonest and hypocritical opponent.
“People will look back at 2008 as the year that Barack Obama once and for all destroyed public financing as we know it,”
We can only hope so.
Sounds good to me!
Fictitious donors is right and probably why Obama put a hold on two FEC Commissioners so investigation would take forever.
If true, that’s one good thing Obama has accomplished. There should be no such thing as public financing of political campaigns.
Another public finance system bites the dust.
Good post..........
At what point, does over saturation of ads redound negatively to the candidate? We have to be at that point with Obama in some of the battleground states. It’s like incessant nagging.
But the Congress is currently spending like drunk sailors in amounts so vast that any sums left over from campaign spending will be drops in the ocean. Note: I am not leaving W out of the blame for this situation either.
Don’t you know the Clintons are saying “You mean we weren’t liberal enough? You mean we should have come across as Marxists and we would have moved back into the White House? Well, hush my mouth!”
Great post! You’re right! It has become a very strange world. This country has become even stranger.
Is that for real? If so, McCain should put it into an ad.
This smells... where is the list of donations??? what was the date the biggest amount came into his campaign???
"People will look back at 2008 as the year that Barack Obama once and for all destroyed public financing as we know it," said Todd Harris, a Republican strategist who worked on McCain's 2000 presidential campaign. "It will be very difficult four years from now for any candidate to make the case that they should participate in public financing given the obvious financial advantage that Obama has received by opting out."
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