[Republican Wildcat]

The soft money ban was nothing compared to the 30/60 day ad ban being upheld. Had the latter not occurred the former alone would not have been nearly as damaging.

[Alberta's Child]

The 60-day ban is exactly what drove the GOP to schedule their primary during the first week of September, so I'm starting to think they knew all along that this ban would be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

As it stand now, there is a month-long period between the Democratic primary in late July and the GOP primary in early September during which the GOP will be hammering the Democratic nominee with ads financed by unregulated GOP "primary" money instead of regulated "general election" money. This is exactly why the Bush team has set out to raise $200 million in "primary" campaign funds even though he has no opponent in the GOP primaries.