Neither Kerry or Bush will accept matching funds as that limits
the amount that can be spent. As for soft money, the campaign
finance bill basically made that illegal.

Neither Bush nor Kerry is taking match funds for the primary campaign.
Both will take it for the fall campaign.

You are in dreamland about soft money. How is George Soros spending
$1.5 million to defeat George Bush? That's the softest money there
ever was.

All McCain-Feingold did was ban overt soft money, the kind that was
meant for party-building. The covert soft money, George Soros's kind,
is attributed to no party.

For example, if somebody wanted to creat Vietnam Veterans for True
Patriotism, funded with $1.5 million from an anonymous source, that
would be perfectly okay with McCain-Feingold, so long as the VVTP
focussed its ads on the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and did not
specifically talk about the 2004 election.

The Bill of Rights has proved cussedly hard to get around

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