Brad Smith has written this Roll Call oped ($). UPDATE: Bob Bauer responds. A snippet: “My concern as an observer of the FEC, a student of campaign finance policy, and a practitioner before the agency has been a new politicization of FEC nominations. By that I mean that if a Democrat is elected President, I would prefer to deny Republicans the opportunity to argue, citing von Spakovsky as precedent, that a future Democratic nomination may be blocked because the nominee held objectionable views outside the sphere of campaign finance.”