The silver lining to McCain-Feingold? Proponents of campaign finance reform keep trying to tell conservatives how much McCain-Feingold is going to hurt Democrats. The latest, and possibly best, effort comes from Michael Crowley of The New Republic. Crowley offers strong evidence that Democrats in D.C. are unprepared and unhappy with campaign finance reform, but unwilling to suffer the press backlash that would come if they backed away from supporting it. But, behind the scenes, Democrats aren't grinning at all. "It's going to be ugly for us. It's pretty devastating," says an experienced party operative. "It's very possible we've consigned ourselves ...