I don't see how a cannidate running the ad is running afoul of the law in the first place. There are issues of hard money donations to the cannidate, but if the cannidate is running the ad, isn't that allowed under the Act? I'm sure I'm missing something here. The act is complicated, you can't possibly understand what it does without having a copy of the US code handy since it doesn't go in all in one place and refers to many sections of the code.
For this non lawyer, although my daughter and her husband are lawyers, just wading through the syllabus of the decision was enough to make me want to go out and wash my brain. IMHO, that alone was enough to gag a maggot, as my mother would say. :)