I can’t really even begin to express the contempt I have for campaign-finance reformers. The smugness, mixed with idealism, mixed with authoritarianism just makes me want to, well, puke.

Puke… That’s a funny word.

So, you can imagine the projectile vomiting that ensued when I read this column in The Los Angeles Times.

Apparently, some idiot columnist named Steve Lopez think California needs public financing of campaigns.

To wit:

The mayor of Los Angeles could go down in flames because of it, and the governor of California is turning out to be one of the biggest frauds in political history because of it.

I’m talking about money, money, money and more money. Specifically, I’m talking about political fundraising.

Now, I won’t even go into the fact that Lopez substitutes a $ for s in many words, like “$chwarzenegger.”

Again, vomit.

Anyway, I’ll skip over the fact that public financing of campaigns is one of the most noxious innovations in modern politics — no man should be forced to pay for another to espouse his views — and one of the least effective toward its desired ends.

I’ll just note that this cretin is calling Arnold “one of the biggest frauds in political history” just because he’s raising money. Not because he can find even one charge to level at Arnold as to that money having bought any influence with his administration, mind you. Just because of the fact that he’s raising it. (The money will most likely be used for ballot campaigns on issues like ending gerrymandering, but I digress.)

Anyway, if Lopez ever wants to know what public financing gets you, I’ll gladly give him a tutorial on New York City’s system. God know no special interests have any influence here in NYC.