The Wild West in campaign finance, with the regulatory process in disarray, has caused all manner of distress among critics of the role of money in politics. But they could be comforted, finding some measure of compensation in a long series of disappointments. The state of disrepair in campaign finance may have convinced wavering Justices that Mr. Bopp was crying wolf, and that the parties, like everyone else out there, are not in dire straits. Better, then, to keep the reforms at least on the books and save judicial intervention for more compelling cases.