2004-09-02

Take it back....

The McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law may have seemed like a good idea at the time, a way of leveling the playing field. As it turns out, what it's mostly been good for is covering the ultimate source of campaign donations, through the loophole of organizations known as 527s. Everything was fine and dandy so long as most of these were liberal, hiding behind such benign names as Take Back America and Move On. The amount of money flowing through them seemed capable of rivaling even George W. Bush's vast sums. Once conservative groups caught on, and John Kerry's resentful Navy swift boat peers formed their own group, the Democrats cried foul. Well, you can't have it both ways. Fortunately, Byron York sees it the same way I do: censorship of political speech. The solution? Repeal McCain-Feingold, of course.

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