Campaign Finance Flip-Flopping
John McCain is making a big fuss about Obama’s flip-flop on accepting public campaign funding. I find it ironic that a so-called fiscal conservative (which, he is not) is criticizing a liberal for not taking millions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund his campaign. McCain has accepted public funding of his campaign.
I realize this is not a principled move on Obama’s part. He clearly changed his mind after realizing that he could raise a lot more money from voluntary, private contributions. Accepting public funds would require him to forgo private funding. It was a strategic move, as is McCain’s. McCain needs the public funding, and doesn’t care that it is money that has been coerced from taxpayers.
McCain has a lot of nerve criticizing Obama for flip-flopping on this issue. Not only did McCain flip-flop on this issue during the primary, he broke the law in doing so: The — anti-First-Amendment law that he was partially responsible for.