If anyone needs to take responsibility, it would be John McCain whose McCain-Feingold finance act creates that nonsense.

I think that was one of the worst things that ever happened in campaign election law.

You know, I’m not going to jail so I can make contact, tell these people privately what I’ve told them publicly: If you’re doing pushcalling, you’re hurting us. I think I’ve made that clear. I think it hurt us in South Carolina; I think in New Hampshire, I think it hurt us in Iowa. So, I’ll say it again: I think pushpolling is a deplorable, despicable way to campaign. If someone things they’re helping us, they’re not. If they want to spend their money, there are a lot of other ways for it to be spent that would be helpful, this isn’t. Now, I can’t say that to them, because under McCain Feingold, I’m not allowed to have any coordination with them.

If Sen. McCain hadn’t pushed that bill through and created a stifling of free speech for some groups but an opening for others, we wouldn’t be having this discussion today. So for his people to call on me to stop it? Has to be one of the most bizarre comments in this election cycle.  - Mike Huckabee