candidates and parties are absolutely hamstrung while 527s and millionaires ...
This is so true. Especially in Colorado. The left passed a CFR initiative here a few years ago that guts the ability of the R party to raise money (not the D's--because there's a union exception in the CFR). All that's left on the right are the 527's. And those folks are not conservatives. They are chamber-of-commerce types. The horrible missteps of the Owens administration were driven by the money.