I thought democrats were going to cross over
and vote for me, not double cross me.
Those damned conservatives!!!
Posted on 02/24/2008 12:54:03 PM PST by BGHater
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will file a complaint against Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Monday, charging that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is breaking the law by trying to get out of a public financing agreement.
In a Sunday afternoon conference call with reporters, DNC chairman Howard Dean said McCain's attempt to withdraw from a loan agreement that hinged on an acceptance of public financing speaks directly to McCain's "integrity."
"This is a classic example of someone who talks one way and does another when it benefits him," Dean said.
On the call, Dean repeatedly criticized McCain for allegedly violating a law he helped reform with the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 -- generally referred to as McCain-Feingold.
"They might as well just call it the Feingold law," Dean said.
The DNC has made clear in recent days it plans to paint the prohibitive Republican nominee as a hypocrite, someone who decries Washington politics while enjoying the support and aid of lobbyists.
The McCain campaign did not immediately respond to an e-mail request for comment, but it has recently said that it is not surprised by the DNC's "attacks." It has also responded to Democratic criticisms by saying it is abiding by election law.
One McCain aide recently told The Hill that the Democratic Party is afraid of McCain because he is its "worst nightmare."
I hate Communists. It’s a damn shame we allow them to operate in this country under the guise of being DemocRATS.
This is McCain’s fault here. He wrote that law.
What a shame that he won't learn from his mistakes in collaborating with those turncoats. If only McCain showed even half as much contempt toward liberals as he does conservatives.
Popcorn time.
I think it is funny that all of MCain’s past discretions will come back to haunt him.......and from the very people he has bowed to and kissed a$$ for all these years.
Pubbies just don’t get it...politics to the Dems is a bar brawl...with broken bottles...the pubbies see it as a night around the country club tables....
There must be some mistake, conservative John McCain would never use public financing. Also, McCain-Feingold fixed this so it is impossible for this to happen.
I’m no expert on FEC law, but methinks they are about as slow as molasses running uphill at -40. Any complaint filed now will be resolved sometime in 2010. But it allows Dean (who by the way sought and received a draft deferment during the Vietnam conflict for a back injury, only to take the time he would have spent serving his country as a ski bum in Colorado) to file, get some quotes on the wire services, and act like this is a serious threat to McCain.
But...but...McCain is one of them! He’s an enlightened moderate I tell ya, loved by journalists everywhere, a true maverick....
This was totally predictable. Some of the left leaning press have been writing about McCain’s hypocrisy on campaign finance since the 2000 election.
Ha ha! See what happens when you wallow around with a bunch of pigs, John?
I hope the FEC hammers McCain.
Campaign Finance Reform Petard Hoisting bump. McShame Schadenfreude.
Click the Pic
(I knew ya could)
It's about as surprising as finding eggs in a birds nest
How-weird Dean questioning someone’s integrity? That’s rich. Still, it is nice to see McCain hoist upon his own.
>>This was totally predictable. Some of the left leaning press have been writing about McCain’s hypocrisy on campaign finance since the 2000 election.<<
Its predictable on several levels. One of which is no matter how much one side admires a member of the other side, when that guy is the nominee, they go after him.
If Lieberman is nominated as a Democrat in 4 years, the Republicans would be foolish to not oppose him.
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