The Campaign Finance Reform bill, strongly pushed by John McCain, was the beginning of this strategy. Before it was passed the Left had already set up those organoizations specifically to bypass the new campaign finance laws. Are they violating the rules? Of course! Black churches have been doing it for a long time.
The result of the law was to silence true political free speech and to give the media the dominant role in determining winners. The media have been the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party for a very long time. They are the prime reason we have Obama. They refused to vet him or even challenge him while spending eight years blasting every move GW Bush made and pushing the idea that Republicans are a Culture of Corruption. At the end of Bush's term it was "anyone but a Republican."
Anyone who thinks John McCain is a conservative is mistaken. He has done numerous things through the years which make me think he was not the POW hero he claims. I suspect he turned and that the Communists have been holding evidence of that over his head ever since.
So why aren’t we going after their tax exempt status?