From today's NY Post opinion pages . . .
http://www.nypost.com/...
None other than George Will used his column today to highlight McCain's hypocrisy on lobbyist issues and campaign finance reform.
The first portion addresses the legit portion of the NY Times expose dealing with how he used his campaign's public funding in order to get on the Ohio ballot. He does it in a way that makes it easy for people even as dumb as the typical NY Post reader to understand.
It gets better below the fold . . .
Last summer, with his campaign destitute, McCain applied for public funding, which entails spending limits. He seemed to promise to use taxpayer dollars as partial collateral for a bank loan.
There are two ways for a candidate to get on Ohio's primary ballot - comply with complex, expensive rules for gathering signatures, or simply be certified to receive taxpayer funding. McCain's major Republican rivals did the former. He did the latter.
Democrats, whose attachment to campaign reforms is as episodic as McCain's, argue that having made such uses of promised matching funds, McCain is committed to taking them and abiding by spending limits - which would virtually silence his campaign until the September convention.
Then, he segues nicely into other areas of McCain's Vast Right WIng Hypocrisy. The money quote for me?
Although his campaign is run by lobbyists; and although his dealings with lobbyists have generated what he, when judging the behavior of others, calls corrupt appearances; and although he has profited from his manipulation of the taxpayer-funding system that is celebrated by reformers - still, he probably is innocent of insincerity. Such is his towering moral vanity, he seems sincerely to consider it theoretically impossible for him to commit the offenses of appearances that he incessantly ascribes to others.
Such certitude is, however, not merely an unattractive trait. It is disturbing righteousness in someone grasping for presidential powers.
Actually, today's NY Post editorial pages, is quite tough on the Rethuglicans. Novak rips into Tim Pawlenty. They also published an interesting Op-ed from Iraq vet, Owen West ( http://www.nypost.com/... )regarding the State Dept's betrayal of those Iraqis who have helped our troops in Iraq.
Quite an unusual day for the NY Post.