If Your Campaign Heralds the Demise of Something, Can You Still Claim to Support It?

Lisa Schiffren’s point in the Corner about Hillary’s refusal to check the box to support public financing of campaigns is pretty amazing. She believes that taxpayers should finance candidates’ campaigns, but she herself has never been willing to divert a dollar or two towards the cause.

Also note that she is forgoing public funds for both the primary and the general, because she presumably doesn’t like the spending limits that go with it. So her campaign is credited with “heralding the demise of public financing“, even though, she assures us, she supports public financing of campaigns.