Richard Mellon Scaif…

Richard Mellon Scaife was considered the bankroller of the “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy”. Now that George Soros is giving millions to liberal activists, can we now start talking about a vast left-wing conspiracy?

Soros, who has financed efforts to promote open societies in more than 50 countries around the world, is bringing the fight home, he said. On Monday, he and a partner committed up to $5 million to MoveOn.org, a liberal activist group, bringing to $15.5 million the total of his personal contributions to oust Bush.

It’s a “conspiracy” when conservatives are well-financed, but liberals get really quiet when their groups get cash.

Oh, by the way, thanks for nothing, Mr. McCain and Mr. Feingold.

Soros’s contributions are filling a gap in Democratic Party finances that opened after the restrictions in the 2002 McCain-Feingold law took effect. In the past, political parties paid a large share of television and get-out-the-vote costs with unregulated “soft money” contributions from corporations, unions and rich individuals. The parties are now barred from accepting such money. But non-party groups in both camps are stepping in, accepting soft money and taking over voter mobilization.

The best take on this is from the RNC.

“It’s incredibly ironic that George Soros is trying to create a more open society by using an unregulated, under-the-radar-screen, shadowy, soft-money group to do it,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson said. “George Soros has purchased the Democratic Party.”

You don’t reform anything by regulating it. Campaign finance “reform” has failed. Big donors just route around the regulations, just as it was predicted they would. This true freedom of speech issue ought to be “regulated” by the Constitution; people should be free to support who they please however they please. All the regulations have done is give the small donor less of a voice, and the big donor just has to use a different back door.

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