Hey, I forgot about that guy

But the party that tried to sell him to us last year remembers:

The Republican National Committee is asking a federal court to restore the ability of national parties to raise unlimited amounts of money and to spend it to help elect state-level candidates...

Republicans say the [McCain-Feingold campaign finance] law violates the First Amendment by preventing national parties from helping state-level candidates.

It's got to be hell to be a Republican. Seriously. The Republicans used their complete control of the legislative and executive branches to pass far-sighted and progressive laws like McCain-Feingold - laws that have eliminated the influence of money not only from campaigns but from government as well. McCain-Feingold was such a model for the nation, nay the world, that the Republicans rewarded its architect with their party's recent nomination to the highest office in the land.

Now here come the Republicans complaining that this solonic apogee, this zenith of legislative sagacity, is itself unconstitutional*. The appointed courts, they beg, must discard this gift that the Republicans bestowed upon a thankful nation.

But soon they will go back to that same nation and ask once again to be elected, because they've got a lot of really, really great ideas they want to turn into law.

* Even though its problems were admitted at the time**, that didn't stop a Republican president from signing it into law.

** "Certain provisions present serious constitutional concerns. In particular, H.R. 2356... prevent[s] all individuals... from making donations to political parties in connection with Federal elections. ...[W]hen individual freedoms are restricted, questions arise under the First Amendment. I also have reservations about the constitutionality of the broad ban on issue advertising..."
-- GW Bush, upon signing McCain Feingold, which bill he had campaigned against 2 years prior, when he said flat out that it was unconstitutional.