Earlier today, Amanda posted a press release from Mitt Romney's campaign. Mitt promises that, as President, he would eliminate the speech-rationing limitations of McCain-Feingold.
That's great news- But in the past, Mitt Romney wanted to tax political contributions, limit campaign spending, and completely abolish PACs. The Caucus Cooler youtubed the video from CSPAN:
Romney lost his race against Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). When he ran for governor eight years later, Romney again proposed dramatic changes to campaign-finance rules.
The Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported in the fall of 2002 that Romney proposed taxing political contributions to finance publicly funded campaigns.
“Mr. Romney campaigned in favor of clean elections, which provides public money to candidates for state office who meet strict fundraising requirements,” the Telegram & Gazette reported. “But he suggested an alternative funding method. Instead of providing campaign funds from state coffers, his plan would tap 10 percent of the fundraising of candidates who choose to raise money privately.”
There are perfectly legitimate points to argue on both sides of the campaign finance debate. And now, Republicans on both sides of this hot issue have a candidate who, atleast at some point in time, firmly agreed with them.
