Mia culpa if I am mistaken as to Romney’s position on the actual issue decided by SCOTUS yesterday. But it’s not much use pretending Romney hasn’t dramatically changed his tune on campaign finance laws in general. This is the man who, in his 1994 Senatorial campaign, “publicly advocated placing spending limits on congressional campaigns and abolishing political action committees” (provisions that would be dropped as too controversial even for McCain’s own reform legislation), who in 2002 wanted to tax political contributions to pay for publicly-financed elections, who was described by Ramesh Ponnuru as holding positions “to the left of McCain-Feingold.”

Which is a record to be proud of. More’s the pity that he’s ditching it to pander to right-wing opponents of campaign finance reform.

Your statement that Romney flipped on this issue is completely incorrect.

Romney has consistently called for more TRANSPARENCY in campaign financing, and he has always criticized the approach McCain/Thompson/Rudy supported to squash 1st amendment rights 60 days prior to an election.