It’s been exactly seven days, and counting, since the Center for Individual Freedom asked Senator McCain to ‘talk straight’ with the American people on whether he plans to campaign for President within the public financing system or abandon that system in favor of more campaign dollars.
His only response to date has been to publicly vow to push legislation to muzzle even more political speech. While McCain is out there trying to raise an estimated $500 million to support his bid for the White House, he wants to silence ‘527’ organizations – ironically groups he created through Congress’s passage of the McCain-Feingold bill. That is not ‘straight talk,’ it’s the height of hypocrisy!
It appears that McCain wants to shut everyone out of the political process but himself.
The First Amendment is very clear in stating, “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech…” That seems to have been lost on Senator McCain as he seeks to further restrict the free speech and association rights of the American people. At the same time, Senator McCain appears to be applying a double standard with his own presidential campaign. While he shuns “money in politics,” he continues to refuse to answer the public financing question.
The American people want “straight talk,” not “double talk.”
