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Funny thing that politics can create hypocrisy on both ends of the political spectrum both on the far left extremes and to the right when it comes to public fianancing of political campaigns.With the left getting the bulk of their money from the usual suspects e.g. big labor unions and the whackos from the fully frauded environmentalists and the Republican establishment not obviously supporting the correct candidate throughout this years primary season in supporting former Gov.Mitt Romney (RINO-Ma) for their Presidential nominee.
This brings me to this mornings New York Times second lead OPED "An Idea Worth Saving" which turns out to be one not worth saving on the touchy subject public financing of political campaigns.We know what happened after the 2008 GOP nominee failed RINO US.Sen.John McCain did by taking public $$$ it ruined him against now President Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
It begins "Public financing of presidential elections, the greatest reform to come out of the post-Watergate era, died this year after a long illness. It was 36 years old, and was drowned by big money and starved by the disdain of politicians who should have known better.From 1976 until 2008, every major-party presidential candidate took public money for the general election, adhering to spending limits that significantly reduced the influence of money on American elections."
As I stated in the opening on the point on hypocrisy especially with the left and the NYT always mentioning the rich right wing donors but not the unions effects and their dirty $$$ but this all really effects the first amendment freedom of speech and the controversial Campaign finance reform that was passed it came back to bite McCain in his ass.
Here are some of the excuses that the NYT points out to be in favor of public financing of political campaigns "Ronald Reagan could not have challenged President Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination in 1976 without accepting public dollars. The system also made campaigns possible for such diverse candidates as Jimmy Carter (1976), George H. W. Bush (1980), Jesse Jackson (1988) and Pat Buchanan (1992), all of whom had essentially run out of cash against opponents with much more money."As I said just BS excuses.
This is also funny the NYT trying to point "There is nothing conservative or liberal about public financing" if it isnt wh yis the NYT pushing it down all of our throats.
