The point of this exercise is to stop Soros, moveon.org. and lawless liberals
Conservatives are smarter. They'll know what to do next.
LOL! If this were so, we wouldn't have CFR, and we wouldn't be at this disadvantage. Why are the Dem groups up and running and ours aren't? Precisely because we're not smarter when it comes to CFR. GOP lawyers have been discouraging conservatives from giving, and GOP officials and officeholders have done the same. That's because the Bush people want to control everything. They don't want Republican MoveOn type organizations to exist. And that's why we're so far behind in this area.
It's nice to say that the point is to get Soros. (Nice, but unprincipled, but we'll leave that little point aside). Because the point is that it can't be done. These rules, if adopted, will clobber the Club for Growth, Citizens United, Grassfire, the Republican Lawyers Association, Americans for Tax Reform, and make things much tougher for the NRA, NRTL, etc. That's why all of these groups are opposing these rules. Did you know that, by the way? Did you know that Club for Growth, Right to Life, the NRA, and ATR oppose these rules? Does that make you think twice?
Finally, this isn't going to stop Soros in 2004 in any case. If the FEC adopts these rules in May - which is when they have a vote scheduled - the earliest they can take effect is late July or August, by which time Soros and Move On will have spent much of their cash. (By law new rules can't take effect for 30 legislative calendar days - so far this year there have been only about 30 legislative days.) Then the Democrats have already announced plans to sue if the rules are adopted, which will tie them up till the election. All this is just further proof that the Republican lawyers don't know what they're doing.
I would urge you to do some more thinking.