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AMERICAblog: NY Times begins to acknowledge McCain's campaign finance troubles

  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Cliff is on Stephanie Miller right now
  • Progressive Troll · 1 year ago
    You beat me to it DC. Gotta get that book.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    even better than the part about McMaverick being a crook, is that the GOPers aren't contributing to his campaign...

    better pander harder, my friend.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    "do you accept peanut butter on crackers as currency?"-McCain trying to buy ads on tv and radio stations
  • Rab · 1 year ago
    Repugs have a money problem nationwide. If their own kind isn't stealing it, their not raising any from the fat cats they usually count on, I think its because of the great exalted leader, "Bush".
  • preznit_giv_me_turkee · 1 year ago
    McCain can opt out on his own
    missing a "'t"
  • Z · 1 year ago
    Has Randi Rhodes been fired?
  • dsquared · 1 year ago
    " the FEC Chair (a Republican) said explicitly McCain can opt out on his own..."
    WTF??
    CAN'T opt out, right?
  • preznit_giv_me_turkee · 1 year ago
    any pundit or editorial writer who challenges Obama's position is ignoring McCain's criminality.

    and Obama should nip this in the bud by coming out with a statement along the lines of "earlier in this race I said if I were the nominee I would sit down with Sen McSame and discuss both of us limiting ourselves to public financing in the general election. considering that the Repugs in the Senate have continued to block a functioning FEC and Sen McSame has shown himself incapable of following the laws already in place that he's agreed to, I feel that he's not to be trusted on this very important issue of keeping special interest money out of politics. I, on the other hand, have instructed my staff to return any donations for the general election over a voluntary cap of $500 and feel that the people have more right to be heard in Washington than the big money fat cats"
  • DCinDC · 1 year ago
    Obama should point at McCain's breaking of the campaign finance laws every time McCain cries about Obama not taking public money. Obama should say why should I enter a system you John McCain do not even believe in. If you, McCain, really wanted campaign finance you would have followed the laws exactly as they were meant to be followed and not game them for your own benefit.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    It's confusing to imagine how the Republicans can present themselves as the pro-business party. Maybe I don't know what they mean when they say, "business." Money smarts isn't it. Market smarts isn't it. Financial integrity isn't it. What is it if not razzamatazz?
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    Supporting McCain would be like going into business with Enron AFTER you've examined their books.
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    Look for McCain to start in with publicity tricks and outrageous statements that get his name in the news but don't cost anything a la Huckabee and his popcorn-popper squirrel recipes.
  • Joel · 1 year ago
    "He initially sought those public matching funds, which come with limits of their own, after his campaign nearly ran out of money, but decided to bypass them after donations started coming in."

    I suppose I should be happy that they even mention it. But "he initially sought those public matching funds" so understates what actually happened as to be misleading and inaccurate. He didn't just "seek" the funds. He actually signed a legally binding agreement for them.

    It's like the difference between asking someone out on a date and marrying them.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    apparently the neocons and the 'pragmatists' within the GOP are vying for the soul of McMaverick...

    whoever waives the most money gets him...
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/us/politics/1...
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    Indigo
    It's confusing to imagine how the Republicans can present themselves as the pro-business party. Maybe I don't know what they mean when they say, "business." Money smarts isn't it. Market smarts isn't it. Financial integrity isn't it. What is it if not razzamatazz?
    ---

    good point... but then, neoconservatism changed EVERYTHING they actually stood for.

    smaller government? yeah right...
    fiscal responsability? they spend like rich teenagers with Daddy's Amex Platinum card.

    there isn't any of the 'old' GOP left in the party anymore... rather than having a 3rd party, the neocon party latched onto the coattails of the republican party and claimed it for its own.

    or an easier way to look at what happened to the old GOP... sometimes sleeping with hookers gives you STDs that are almost impossible to get rid of.
  • johnosahon · 1 year ago
  • Marko · 1 year ago
    McCain - Already over budget

    Why isn't this Obama's or Clinton's slogan?
  • anon · 1 year ago
    McCain should be called Sen. Loophole when it comes to campaign finance. He used a very sleazy loophole in the primaries to opt-in, take the money, and then opt-out--even though this loophole might be illegal! Now he's got the loophole of telling his donors to send their $30,000 checks to the RNC so he can collect taxpayer money through public finance.

    Obama would be a fool to give up the very real advantage he has from milllions of small donors--that's real public financing. As opposed to Senator Loophole's charades.
  • RB · 1 year ago
    If the FEC doesn't have a quorum to decide whether to let McCain out of public financing for the primary, would it be able to decide whether to let him have public financing for the general?
  • Chris · 1 year ago
    MCCAIN SUCKS!!!


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