This latest “let’s sue together” Bush tactic with McCain may be shrewd short-term politics–it puts an exclamation point on his opposition to 527s and keeps him close to the all-powerful (in the media at least) John McCain. But look where signing campaign-finance reform, itself a cynical tactical manauver, has gotten Bush. He has gone from signing campaign-finance reform and hoping (and expecting) it would be struck down as unconstituional, to affirmatively seeking yet more restrictions on the First Amendment. Such is the fruit of betaying your principles. What a mess.