Yeah for Corporate Personhood!

[drone]

Maybe Haliburton should be allowed to run for office?

Or forced to stand for jury duty, or be eligible for selective service...

In the absolute, you are correct. In practice, money has not, cannot, and will never be separated from representative politics. To enact laws that attempt to do so may be noble, but is ultimately naive.

Sad, but true. In my mind, the best way to limit campaign funding is to shorten the campaign. You can only blow through so much money in a couple of months, and an added bonus would be the elimination of electoral fatigue. Never going to happen, but I can dream...