back to your point, one commentator explains how we got in this predicament, where both of the candidates are horrible, but won because the media has a bizarre fascination with them: campaign finance reform laws, championed by john “free speech” mccain.

What a bizarre coincidence that a few years after the most draconian campaign-finance laws were imposed via McCain-Feingold, our two front-runners happen to be the media’s picks! It’s uncanny — almost as if by design! (Can I stop now, or do you people get sarcasm?)

By prohibiting speech by anyone else, the campaign-finance laws have vastly magnified the power of the media — which, by the way, are wholly exempt from speech restrictions under campaign-finance laws. The New York Times doesn’t have to buy ad time to promote a politician; it just has to call McCain a “maverick” 1 billion times a year.

It is because of campaign-finance laws like McCain-Feingold that big men don’t run for office anymore. Little men do. And John McCain is the head homunculus.

the funny part is, mccain is now doomed by the same system that got him through the primaries. this was illustrated quite vividly this week when the NYT refused to run his op-ed in response to b. hussein’s because it didn’t sound liberal enough.

when we let newspapers and TV commentators decide the elections, it is really difficult for old, boring, unfunny, unlikeable, unintelligent, unattractive, and unchangelike people like john mccain to win. but the poetic justice in all of this is that john mccain wrote the rules.