You sound like a Liberal. How about the taxpayer money used to buy votes with welfare programs? How about the money it takes for the Liberal Media to endorse and support Liberal Democrat candidates and liberal policy? Free Speech costs money. Money is speech. Speech is money. PERIOD!
Somehow I don’t associate campaign contributions with “free speech,” or at least I do not equate the two. I would not donate to any candidate without expectation of a favor in return, namely that he/she acts and votes for legislation in accord with my personal convictions. The vote is the ultimate “campaign contribution.” Do we need to pay them to uphold and defend the Constitution? Let the candidates speak all they want to at no charge. I do not see much integrity inherent in receiving huge sums of ideological money. It reeks of bribery, not free speech.