Once again, Josh Marshall has beaten me to a post -- this time on the selection of Ken Starr to serve as co-counsel for Senator Mitch McConnell's challenge to McCain-Feingold.

I, too, think it's a strange choice; Starr's certainly not known as a First Amendment attorney. But, unlike JM, I think the reason is clear. The idea is to even further polarize the issue, driving every Republican who ever disliked Bill Clinton into the arms of the anti-reform crowd. (O'Toole File, of course, is already on record opposing this CFR for a variety of reasons; unfortunately, M-F has come to be synonymous with all CFR.) It's politics, plain and simple -- and probably pretty smart politics, at that.
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