Well, after passing all of these draconian measures, now 70 percent of the Japanese people have no confidence in the legislature and turnout continues to decline. So it is obvious that had no impact whatsoever. What we have done here, in an effort to get money out of politics, is to take the parties out of politics. . . . Let me briefly touch again on what we have done. The party is the one entity in America that will support a challenger.
Parties are filters.
They will support a Republican whether he is a liberal Republican or a conservative Republican. Interest groups won't always do that. Parties will go to bat for their members no matter what. Applying the new McCain-Feingold standard, the Republican Senatorial Committee and Democratic Senatorial Committee will be able to fund the coordinated expenditures in North Carolina. That is about it.