I have mixed feelings about the use of 'soft money' in the up-coming campaigns. This article in the Washington Post (for which you must subscribe) looks at both sides of the argument. It's sad that it appears to be the Democrats who are using the loopholes in the campaign laws, but as they say it is in response to the obscene amounts of cash the Bush/Cheney campaign has raised, despite the President running, for the most part, unopposed in the primaries, as well as having all the privileges of the incumbency. Which include deciding which trips are 'official' and which are 'political', as if this administration has ever separated the two before.