Stating The Obvious

According to Rick Moran at the AmericanThinker.com, Senator John McCain has stated that public campaign financing is now a dead issue.  No kidding.  It was the McCain-Feingold Act passed in 2002 that limited the amount of money a candidate who accepted public funds for his campaign could spend.  Aside from the fact that this is an abridgment of political free speech (unconstitutional), it has not been successful as law.  Because Barack Obama reneged on his promise of accepting public money for his campaign, he had almost unlimited funds to spend.  Because John McCain accepted public funds, he was limited in the amount of money he could legally spend.  I don’t think the limits on John McCain actually changed the results of the election, but they highlighted the fact that if both candidates do not accept public funding and its limits, there will be financial imbalance in the campaign.

John McCain is an American hero.  He was a rotten Presidential candidate.  He has been a thorn in the side of Republicans in the Senate for a long time.  Anytime the Republicans were in danger of showing some backbone and taking a stand on some issue, McCain stepped in and went ‘squishy’ and started attacking his fellow Republicans.  If Arizona wants to continue to re-elect him, they are welcome to him. but please don’t let the man pass legislation–he doesn’t seem to understand the Constitution!