February 29, 2008
McCain Ready To Drop Funding
It's nearly official: "Public financing" could soon mean grassroots tithing -- money lured from the masses into campaign collection plates so candidates can spend without limits. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will opt out of the traditional public financing system that bears his name if Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois wins the Democratic nomination and does so first, McCain campaign policy director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said during an interview at the candidate's whisper-quiet headquarters in Virginia this week.
"Oh, yeah," he replied when asked if McCain would renounce the public funds he once admired (and required), if Obama -- as he keeps hinting -- jettisons the shackles of Federal Election Commission rules. Winning against a mega-fundraiser like Obama is daunting. "Make it no harder; it's hard enough!" said Holtz-Eakin.
McCain's finances, though improving, remain too lean to put Holtz-Eakin and other advisers on the payroll. "I never want to say we're at all like Obama, who is a money machine," he marveled. "It's really quite amazing. And I don't want to pretend he's not a hard opponent. Just look at the turnouts; they're phenomenal."
(National Journal's Alexis Simendinger)
Posted at 10:25 AM
Comments
John McCain is becoming a figure of ridicule before our eyes. As gaffe prone as Romney. This whole thing is a joke. A man who is 'tongue-tied' and can't think on the spot. I wonder who that remind me of???
Sonny Liston | 02.29.08 02:26 PM
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LA Times/Bloomberg poll as of 2-25: McCain beats Obama 44-42; USA Today poll: McCain beats Obama 48-47.
Sonny Liston, you are becoming a figure of riducule before our eyes!
bio mom | 02.29.08 03:21 PM
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Hey Bio Whore! Look at every other poll, McCain will lose! There is no way in hell that a pro-war candidate can win in November!
Nikodim | 03.02.08 04:04 PM
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