 Campaign finance reform was a joke and it still is one. The bill did nothing to reform the system, all it did was take soft money away from the parties and candidates and put it in the hands of the 527s. More money was spent in the 2004 election than ever before. For the longest time democrats cried about soft money, and then the truth came out, that the dems actually raise more soft money than the republicans.
If the 2004 election cycle was any indication of what reform meant, it was a bad reform. That alone is a major hit on his candidacy.
dmk Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk- |