Mutt

You're playing into the socialist gameplan. You forget the media role. Limiting the ability of people of all stripes and political persuasions to organize and make their voices heard just empowers the mainstream media outlets. Organizing means unions, advocacy groups, political parties, corporations, partnerships, etc. It's un-American to limit who can say what and when about a politician. It's the downhill path to tyranny.

You also seem to assume that the people that spend the most and dominate the airwaves will usually win. There you are very mistaken. Read the book "Freakonomics" for a well done study that totally repudiates this myth.

esabye

Very good points. Points that were not made today on the MSM. You've noted that the decision also unleashes all the liberal special interests including unions.

Anyone watching CBS, NBC, ABC or CNN today heard a very biased version from these left wing wackos. They played down or omitted the part about the shackles coming off leftist groups like ACLU, AFL-CIO, Sierra Club, People for the American Way, VPC, Brady, etc., etc. 90-100% of what we heard about was that the chains came off those evil capitalist corporations. You know, the ones that want to rape, pillage, pollute the planet and take your first born children to sell them into slavery to pay for obscene pay raises for the fat cats that run the boardrooms. Sheesh!

The few network news stories that gave passing mention to unshackling non-corporate entities did so by showing a bubba looking dude with a pickup truck holding a bumper sticker saying "Vote Freedom First!". Oh no, the sky is falling! The NRA and other pro-gun groups are allowed to exercise free speech again!!

Including corporate free speech under first amendment protections allows capitalism to have a much needed voice. It counterbalances the socialist drum beat coming from all the leftists in the media and Democratic party. Like the NRA, corporations are organizations created by their members for a shared purpose - in this case, building wealth. Why can't they take on the people trying to prevent this most American of activities?

Now the NRA, GOA and RMGO will be free to call a spade a spade by buying radio or TV spots any time they deem effective - including the Monday night before the election. West slope oil interests can point out to voters this fall how the Democrats in congress and the Colorado legislature decimated their industry and destroyed jobs. Farmers in the San Joaquin Valley in California can point out how they were completely abandoned by Barbara Boxer when the water was shut off to their land over a stupid 3 inch bait fish called the Delta Smelt. These cowardly politicians won't have a three month holiday from criticism from the people they are screwing.

Other than that weasel McCain, do you see any Republicans wringing their hands and crying over this decision? That should tell you volumes about who the winners and losers are.