This is a great column by George Will on a Republican candidate for Senate in Wisconsin who is worried — rightly — that ads for the car dealership he founded, which bares his name, will fall afoul of McCain-Feingold this season.

Thesis graf:

A core principle of an open society is that, in the words of Thomas Hobbes, freedom is the silence of the laws — what is not forbidden is permitted. However, because of the complexities and vagaries of McCain-Feingold and the rest of the government’s metastasizing regulations of political activity, prudent participants in politics must assume that everything is forbidden until government gives permission.

Preach it, Brother Will.