Now he thinks there should be no limit to campaign contributions.
Source: youtube.com
Mitt Romney told Scott Conroy of RealClearPolitics Thursday that he thinks there should be no limits on the contributions to political campaigns.
"[W]hat we have right now is unlimited political contributions, but they’re not controlled by the campaigns,” he said. “They’re controlled by unaffiliated or uncoordinated entities, which, in my opinion, is the worst of both worlds. It means that large contributions have a big impact, and it means that the campaign can’t control them, so if we’re going to have big contributors, wouldn’t it be nice to have the campaigns responsible for what those contributors say?”
He sounded very different in 1994, however, when he was running for Senate against Ted Kennedy. "These kinds of associations between money and politics in my view are wrong, and for that reason I would like to have campaign spending limits," he said.
In Romney's defense, the Supreme Court has ruled out some of the regulations he suggested in 1994. His passion for limiting the role of money in politics does seem to have faded though.