Howard Dean and public financing

The democratic challengers to Dean's campaign are criticizing his decision to forego public financing as hypocritical. I know he said early on that he would go with the public financing and would criticize any Dems that didn't, but when you see his road ahead (assuming the nomination) and he would be unable to fight Bush at all after locking up the primaries. Bush has no such limitation and can spend into the stratosphere. It would be like me and a few other middle-aged historians taking on the OU Sooners in a football game. The system is broken, and Clinton and Bush broke it by raising so much money.