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Lobbyist Lashing is All for Show

Michael Barone usually gets it right, and does so again, on the current prissy pretense of candidates that they don't want any "lobbyists" in prominent campaign roles.

The worst thing about "reform" as a rallying cry is not its sanctimony, but its insincerity. It becomes just another club to beat an opponent and seize power. Claiming that your campaign will not take money from pacs--political action committees that were themselves set up as a reform thirty years ago--is a form of false chest thumping. It's laughable, since money will always find a way into campaigns. Trying to keep out lobbyists is also a fulsome gesture, a way to bamboozle the rubes who think that a good campaign can be run with inexperienced personnel.

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