It's my understanding Bush is not saying do away with all 527 ads, he's just saying to limit contributions to $2000 per individual, hence stopping people like Soros from contributing millions.

Your headline makes me think we may be having a Br'er Rabbit don't-throw-me-in-that-briar-patch moment.

Looks like they'll need to divert some of that 527 $$ to upgrade servers and buy more bandwidth over @ Swiftvets.com.

Something tells me that O'Neill has a whole basement full of video clips, each more devastating that the previous. Before he's done, Kerry will be looking for one of Saddam's industrial shredders to jump into.

Kerry is wobbling and reeling, and gets another bruising body blow. How long can he remain standing? Sports fans want to know.

The great thing is that Bush can claim to have already denounced this ad by wanting all of them off the air, without actually addressing the content of it or any of the subsequent ads.

As for O'Neill and co.-- "Revenge is a dish best served cold." It was Kerry who allowed this revenge to be released from its liquid helium home.

"... its liquid helium home."

Raoul:

When you do imagery, you don't mess around, do you?

I vote on war, taxes, and the Constitution, in that order. (Abortion, campaign finance, etc. don't rouse me so much.)

This is a real, blood-and-guts First Amendment issue and Bush is squarely on the wrong side.

I hope Bush has a long-term strategy here that brings free political speech back. Of course, I hoped that there would be unusable WMD, too.

What the hell is so upsetting about advertising? Who watches commercials, anyway? Are people incapable of changing the channel? I think we would be better off with no-hold barred debate in this country, so long as the flow of money and resources is freely transparent to everyone, which the Internet makes possible.

I'm definitely with EO, that regardless of the fencing going on now, if Bush wins he will be doing everyone a big favor if he slams the present Campaign Finance laws and comes out for mere disclosure.

He will have to use political capital, because free speech is not always popular with the public believe it or not. For some dang reason, it's never popular with MSM except in cases of Janet Jackson's ..well er expressing herself.