Dean Esmay on Democrat whining about Republican fundraising:
So. We’ll get to hear more handwringing from the whiners of the Left about how much more money Bush has than his Democratic challengers. But while you’re listening to this pathetic whining–and make no mistake, you’ll hear lots more of it over the next year or so—just remember: Democrats set the game up this way, and Bush handed them the rope by which they hung themselves.
It is truly deserving of unbridled contempt.
Alex
Nice speech if it were true; but it mostly isn’t. The campaign finance law is largely set by the Supreme Court, which ruled in Buckley v Valeo that campaign contributions have 1st amendment protection. That undercuts most efforts at real reform, and reformers trying to work around it are forced to set up Goldbergesque contraptions that make marginal improvements at best.
Alex
Nice speech if it were true; but it mostly isn’t. The campaign finance law is largely set by the Supreme Court, which ruled in Buckley v Valeo that campaign contributions have 1st amendment protection. That undercuts most efforts at real reform, and reformers trying to work around it are forced to set up Goldbergesque contraptions that make marginal improvements at best.
Robin Roberts
Buckley v. Valeo did not ‘set’ campaign finance law. It merely set the boundaries of what could be regulated. Choosing to regulate at all, and the recent resulting regulations were the creation of the arrogance of such losers as McCain and Feingold.