The rulers are trying to set new and difficult hurdles for the ruled. And these are only the legal advantages. Bill Clinton has shown us how they may be extralegally enhanced. Nevertheless, these fat cats feel victimized. They feel the system is rigged against them as long as it permits challengers to use private money as an equalizing factor.
Life is so unfair to incumbents.
Though that record was available to anyone who cared to look, Dole felt that it was between him and his Maker, and he was outraged that Forbes would be low enough to spend money to broadcast it to the voters. Freedom to oppose the powers that be is fine, as long as it doesn't get out of control. Apart from the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, we owe none of our basic freedoms to the U.S. Government. But since then, over more than two centuries, the federal government has been gradually constricting our freedoms. If they hadn't existed already, they would never have originated with our rulers.