There is more than one way to skin a cat, and if you can do so and make less of a mess, then it might work out, even if it will not work.
The fact is, within fifteen months, this bill is dead, save for the increase in the hard-money limit and the disclosure requirements. The Dems are losers, and will be routed on this.
The DNC probably had their Enron/CFR ads ready to go, they probably cost a few million to produce. They don't have it now. One principle we must understand if we are to get things right is the principle of calculated risk, by which we will do things that may damage us ONLY in instances where there is a probability that we can inflict greater political damage on the Left.
Right now, we have to pick our fights carefully, and attack only when we have an advantage and on the issues we have an advantage on. Furthermore, we may need to be willing to accept that fact that politics is messy.
I also do not see how letting Hillary or Gore or any other Dem will help what we stand for, and the same goes for letting the Dems keep the Senate and take the House. If anything, such an occurence will only make things worse.