LH - Posting comments that Ron might reply to is a little like volunteering for elctro-shock therapy, but we do what we can.

                   Ron - without going back and re-reading McCain-Feingold, I don't think there was any effort to embrace the public financing of campaigns. It was an effort to get special interest money out of politics, and that worked for about a week until the 527 groups formed and things were back to normal.

                   A sideline event that grew out of it was, it removed any barrier for people of immense financial means from bankrolling their own political campaigns. Hence the reference to Mayor Bloomberg.

                   Just because a bunch of other Republicans didn't like it doesn't make it a good deal for the public. Maybe they saw the holes in it before it became law.