This article from Fox News reports on an anti-abortion group, Wisconsin Right to Life, which is airing radio and TV ads against Sen. Russ Feingold (of McCain-Feingold/campaign-finance-reform fame), who is on the ballot this September for a primary election.

The Feingold campaign’s response? WRTL’s ads will soon be illegal, since they are a banned form of “electioneering” under McCain-Feingold that isn’t allowed to run too near an election.

WRTL insists that its ads are simply designed to let Wisconsin voters know who they have to lobby if they are unhappy with Wisconsin’s senators blocking confirmation votes on President Bush’s judicial nominees.

Reasonably enough, Feingold’s people are pointing out that WRTL’s position is a lie — the group wants to see Feingold go down like a ton of bricks.

So, in one way, Feingold is right: WRTL’s ads are clearly intended to influence the election.

In a much more important way, however, Feingold is wrong: Why the hell shouldn’t WRTL be allowed to try to influence an election!?

Maybe McCain, Feingold and the lesser five of the Supreme Court should never have repealed the First Amendment in the first place.