In recent years, most Republicans in Congress have voted for free speech and the First Amendment and against what is often called campaign finance 'reform'. Now, the McCain-Feingold bill is back on the floor of the Senate.
Some observers think that opposing campaign finance 'reform' is a little like opposing apple pie.
Voters need information, and getting information to voters costs money, sometimes a lot of money. If parties and candidates can't raise and spend sufficient amounts of money, America's voters are going to be the losers. This same loss will not be felt by political insiders and the media elite, however. Lobbyists and broadcasters and editorial writers and assorted insiders are not going to be disadvantaged by this so-called campaign finance 'reform'. Republicans who oppose campaign finance 'reform' know that it takes substantial sums to communicate effectively with millions of American voters.