Not even 72 hours after the 2006 midterm polls close Senator McCain launches his Presidential Campaign for 2008. Now this could be considered a little early and it certainly would have been early in '98 or '94, but in this post McCain/Fiengold Act day and age that we live in it isn't.

Prior to the McCain/Fiengold Act PAC money flowed into the coffers of both politcal parties. That money was split up by the party and directed into the local coffers. Likewise corporations, and private organizations or lobbyists and citizens could and often would contribute large quanitities to their favorite politician or at the very least to the candidate they felt would best represent them in Congress or in the White House.

But Senator McCain wanted to take the big money out of politics. You remember, he wanted to make sure the politicians were beholden to nobody but the American public, not some PAC or corporation that had contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to either the politician or the party leaders. Well he got what he wanted and now he is starting early so he can raise enough money to run for the Presidency. (we will pretend that it worked for this study in stupidity, George Soros and others will disagree)  McCain wanted to "clean up" elections, keeping the Lobbyists and others like them, the NRA, Big Tobacco, Big Drug, Big Oil and others out of the game for the most part. Let the people fund the runs. Not his motto but I like it, we'll keep it.

Well it is said that you should be careful what you ask for. McCain has seen the future of political runs under this Constitutional highjacking. It takes alot of $5.00 donations to raise the $40,000,000.00 to $50,000,000.00 needed to run in todays political climate. Still seems like a bunch of money to me. Now I know there are a ton of $50.00, $100.00 donations and even quite a few $2000.00 donations, which if I remember correctly is the top tier you can donate to any one party, politician or organization to assist with a campaign. But did it really remove the "big money" or did it just create an even bigger problem?

In the olden days, PreMcCain/Fiengold, we got a 7-8 month rest between political runs, now we get, well, about 72 hours.

Who gets in next, Hillary? She just won re-election. Allen, he has time on his hands. Newt? He has the talent (speaking from the right, of course). Maybe Rudolph, Mit, Kerry, Gore or Dean will jump next. Who knows. All I know for sure is we barely got to catch our breath from the last run for our votes.

But what would I know; I'm just an Average American.