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...style more than substance. The Gipper was always thick with conviction; Romney has positions, not convictions. He never says anything striking or memorable. And in the second debate, he did something Reagan never would have done: he attacked McCain's bipartisan campaign-finance reform and immigration bills, McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy. McCain stood firm. He said the money in politics "has corrupted our own party." And he stood firm on the war in Iraq, as expected, and against torture, even when presented with a Fox News scenario in which terrorists with information about an imminent attack had been captured...
...Candidates raise money not to purchase TV time and hire political consultants. They raise money to prove that they can raise money. All the major candidates have rejected federal subsidies in order to avoid the contribution limits that go with them. This includes McCain, whose name is on McCain-Feingold, the most recent failed attempt to curb money's role in politics. When the press started reporting that his campaign was in trouble, McCain hired a major corporate lobbyist as his finance chairman. The press approved. This showed that he was serious...
...political expression. But without draconian speech restrictions, reformers are left with only marginal changes that do not affect the underlying incentives to donate, and, as a result, campaign finance reforms just shift money around. So, when “soft” money was banned by the 2002 McCain-Feingold reform, candidates raised more “hard” money, and 527s (such as the Swift Boat Veterans) picked up the remaining slack...
...worth noting that perhaps my displeasure with all these groups stems from a lack of candidates who speak for me. For example, if Russ Feingold, a politician who I have an immense amount of respect for, was still in the race, I would be more sympathetic towards helping out on a campaign trail...
Although, even for Feingold, I doubt I’d be willing to sacrifice my weekends this early to travel to the miserable oblivion that is New Hampshire...