John McCain ACCUSES Republicans of Using FOREIGN MONEY Against Obama

You can't allow domestic money and still keep out foreign money.

I don't understand what's in it for him.

And my reasons are not those Mr McCain might give, so YMMV:

There are two things:

1.) The Citizens United decision moves power from the party organizations (national, state, and local) to wealthy contributors. It is fundamentally destabilizing for our political system as it was. But anyway, McCain is an old-school national-party hack, so he views that negatively. It could well mean a loss of influence and money for him and his cronies too, no need to go through the party organization anymore, you can just go buy and elect your politicians directly, e.g. the whole Tea Party fandango, the various recent incumbent/party-hack primary losses in favor of the independently funded, Mr Adelson's activities and the Koch brothers etc. So generally, I expect the party organizations to object to Citizens United and loose political money in the same way they object to open primaries, because it reduces party power and control. That problem is the first thing that popped into my head back when I first read about the USSC decision, so I am gratified to see it playing out.

2.) The good money vs. bad money idea has to be maintained, for much the same reason, because our political system is addicted to "contribution" money, so when somebody (Mitt) starts blurring the established lines, they need to be corrected, in order to not undermine the whole dog-and-pony show, to maintain the pretense of order and lawful politics.

You can almost tell what side (party/insurgent wingnut) people are on by where they come down on that issue, for example Carville is old school and would line up with McCain on this issue.

Makes perfect sense.

Because it doesn't like populist/insurgent politics much, that's why, and once you understand that, you are no longer surprised when the national parties take a dim view of 3rd party and populist movements (OWS, Tea Party), fifty state campaigns, and recalls/initiatives driven by enraged public reaction to regressive public policy. How long is the list now of things that have been "off the table" because the National parties don't want real political reform? How much did we have to fight to get publicly elected Senators, womens right to vote, to end slavery, etc. etc.? Our ruling elites are elitists, and they begrudge us every little concession.

I know it seems weird, and you aren't supposed to talk about it, it's like taboo, but it's just amazing how often it matches up with what happens.

I think McCain's commitment to campaign finance reform was real. At the same time, his war monger side leads me to believe he has deep contempt for some other countries.

To repeat what someone has said.

It could simply be that McCain and Adelson have had a falling out, and this is what McCain really thinks.

I wonder what he wants. Maybe he wants to trade for a position for his nutty daughter.

That money expects something in return. Foreign money may not have America's best interests at heart.

This is something he worked on in congress with Russ Feingold back before he became the 08 nominee.

Saber rattling about attacking them is more likely. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.

Or China for that matter?