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As my mom used to say, “The horse is already out of the barn.”

On this issue, Sen McCain & Pres Bush have sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind. Their entire base opposed them, and they went with their enemies instead. And their enemies turned it around with 527’s and billionaires and stabbed them in the heart with the very issue they had hoped would provide security for incumbents.

The best rule about money is no rules.

All of which matters little if conservatives don’t find a way around the mainstream media. The concessions to their preferred candidate cannot be matched in funds when it comes to air time.

Agreed. Rush Limbaugh said it best on McCain's unhealthy obession with all things 'campaign finance' related:

Well, there was that, and then McCain lost it about these 527s. MoveOn.org, he said, "Look, my son – my stupid 15-year-old son – even he would say it's partisan politics and as such, it's illegal. What do we have to do here, huh? Huh?" Now, that was in testimony before the Senate. I'm sitting there saying, "I wonder how many people are hearing this?" His law, his McCain-Feingold law says that these 527s are illegal because they're engaging in partisan politics.

My friends, what has happened to us? We have allowed this silly attack on the First Amendment, McCain-Feingold. President signed it, don't know why. Supreme Court found it constitutional, can't understand it, and now this? I mean, there's more money in politics than ever, and more of it by definition of law is illegal than ever! This McCain-Feingold law is an absolute joke. There is more money than ever and it's all under the table now and it's not under control of the parties. It's in control of these wackos like George Soros. So everybody says, "How could this have happened?" [McCain impression:] "We put that loophole in there but we didn't think anybody would see it. You have to have loopholes so you can go back with new legislation to be a king again to close it!" Well, they saw the loophole, senator, and they're exploiting it with partisan politics. (Laughing) "That's right! That's right! Partisan politics, and it stinks. We said you can't do that and we're going to stop it, you hear me?" Okay, so it was a... (laughing) What McCain-Feingold wanted to do, it did just the opposite! It was designed to take money out of politics. Instead of taking the money out, McCain-Feingold is sucking in more money than at any time in history and by definition, most of it's illegal. Thank you, senator!

>"The concessions to their preferred candidate cannot be matched in funds when it comes to air time">

Then let US All deny the ENEmedia AIRTIME. Stop viewing. Stop purchasing (movies, musestank, cable/satelite) the rope they are using to hang US!

No more TV conventions/state to state primaries! We have the ability to hold our primaries at the convention. The convention should be one or two nights for however many weeks it takes to give OUR candidates equal time to present themselves for national vetting.

One thing is for sure. The way it's going now is efffed big time. It needs changing, cause it aint workin.