UPDATE per Boston Globe:
"John McCain has officially broken the limits imposed by the presidential public financing system, according to spending reports filed last week by the campaign.
The senator from Arizona has spent $58.4 million on his Republican primary effort. Those who have committed to public financing can spend no more than $54 million on their primary bid."
Serious hypocrisy from the “straight-talking” Senator responsible for passing campaign finance reform.
Well, the media will snap out of it and point out this obvious contradiction . . . oh, who the f*ck am I kidding. . .
-PS
UNSTABLE, SERIAL LIAR.
That's what we need to hammer home. The AGR, CNN, and Fox "News" will be pushing McCain as the "M" word.
That should end right now, and we need to start hitting back against it.
Kevin Drum nails it:
"Let's recap. Foreign policy cred lets him get away with wild howlers on foreign policy. Fiscal integrity cred lets him get away with outlandishly irresponsible economic plans. Anti-lobbyist cred lets him get away with pandering to lobbyists. Campaign finance reform cred lets him get away with gaming the campaign finance system. Straight talking cred lets him get away with brutally slandering Mitt Romney in the closing days of the Republican primary. Maverick uprightness cred allows him to get away with begging for endorsements from extremist religious leaders like John Hagee. "Man of conviction" cred allows him to get away with transparent flip-flopping so egregious it would make any other politician a laughingstock. Anti-torture cred allows him to get away with supporting torture as long as only the CIA does it.
Remind me again: where does all this cred come from? And what window do Democrats go to to get the same treatment the press gives McCain?"
How long has it been since you wrote a LTE?-Prodigal Son
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