As for fiscal responsibilty? Let's compare how much McCain spent campaigning compared to how much Obama spent campainging... if that is a shadow of things to come... then, uh, wow!
Are you telling me that McCain wouldn't love to have the same amount of funding Obama had? Why do you think McCain wanted Obama to stick to federal funding?
Not to mention the fact that the Republican Party has historically outspent the Dems in past decades. Your complaint is not only completely off-topic, but it completely ignores reality as well. In fact, not a day after McCain derided the amount of money spent on Obama's 30-minute infomercial and accused him of "buying the vote", McCain's camp announced that they would OUTSPEND Obama.
Senator John McCain’s campaign advisers pressed their argument on Friday morning that no one should write off their candidate and said yet again that their own polls showed a tightening race.
“We’re pretty jazzed up about what we’re seeing as movement in this election,” Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, told reporters in a lengthy morning conference call. He added that “we are witnessing, I believe, probably one of the greatest comebacks that you’ve seen since John McCain won the primary.”
As Mr. Davis spun it out in the conference call, McCain campaign polls show a “dead even’’ race in Iowa as well as competitive positions with Mr. Obama in battleground states. Mr. Davis also asserted that the McCain campaign would outspend Mr. Obama on television by $10 million in the final days of the race.
So, tell me......is this still a "shadow of things to come?" Before you make your decision, consider this:
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A week after the Obama campaign booked $5 million worth of advertising time during NBC's upcoming Beijing Olympics telecasts, the rival McCain camp said it has ponied up $6 million for summer's biggest TV event.
It isn't clear how much the Republican presidential candidate will be spending per spot. A primetime 30-second spot for a regular advertiser is going for as much as $750,000.
McCain's buy includes multiple dayparts on NBC, including primetime, as well as cable for the 2-1/2 weeks of the games, which begin on Friday.
The buys by Obama and McCain are the first national broadcast TV spots by a presidential campaign since Bob Dole bought a single national TV commercial in 1996.
(Guess what - Dole was a REPUBLICAN! He did it first, and Obama's just copying him. Still think it's a "bad" idea just because a Democrat is doing it? ;) )