Most voters’ eyes glaze over when you bring up the topic of campaign finance. This was as true in 2002, when McCain-Feingold passed, as it is today. And so the late push by the Obama administration to highlight ad buys by outside groups, and to suggest without evidence that foreign money is involved, is pretty weak, at best. At worst, it is a form of hypocrisy, considering the enormous expenditures made by (partly foreign-funded) labor unions in every election cycle, including this one.

Conn Carroll has a pretty nice summary over at The Foundry under the title, “If you can’t beat them, silence them”: