[marron]

It makes no sense to declare a cease-fire when your opponent has just emptied his magazine, and your side has just opened its first box of ammo.

527's are McCain's concession to the 1st Amendment. Without the 527's, there is no First Amendment. McCain Feingold is a naked attack on free speech, and the only thing that keeps it on the right side of the constitution is the 527 provision, and McCain wants to kill that.

I obviously don't like what the Dems have done with their 527 money, but thats because I don't like Dems. You don't solve the problem by cutting off the money (mainly after the Dem money has already been spent), you do it on the battlefield of ideas, and the battlefield of ideas costs money. 527 money, it seems these days, in the McCainFeingold era.

[76834]

This is just a big show.
If anyone tries to silence either camp expect a big court case eventually ending in the Supreme Court.
IMO this case would never withstand a constitutional test:

Congress shall make no law. respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

This could take years to wind thru the courts and in the meantime, business as usual....