If anyone needed evidence that the explosive growth of so-called 527 independent expenditure groups is a blight on our politics, it’s obvious in the form of the controversial new ad attacking John Kerry’s Vietnam War service. . . . If good government types really want to clean up politics, they should explain how campaign reforms such as McCain-Feingold — which made the creation of more 527 groups unavoidable — are helping to do that.
So far, I’m unimpressed with campaign finance “reform.”