I know, I know. Mentioning Ann Coulter just confirms my status as a right-wing nutjob, but when the gal’s right, she’s right. After brilliant analysis, she concludes:

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.

This underscores the necessity of electing more than a president. We must elect people to Congress who will deal with and repeal this nonsense. The rest of your ballot has always been important, but it is ever so important this year.

You want Reagan back? Restore the right to free speech, and you will have created the conditions that allowed Reagan to run.