Going Negative Double Standard

One thing that's apparent in reading this Strib article is that when a Republican points out a liberal's hypocrisy, that's going negative but when a liberal tries casting a Republican as part of a culture of corruption, it's considered taking the high road. Be that as it may, the truth is that Minnesotans are smart enough to realize what's important. Let's see how the Strib spins this:
Minnesotans have already seen some of the fireworks in a TV ad that accuses Klobuchar of hypocrisy and shows her with her old state lobbyist registration number strung mug shot-like across her chest.
Why is it considered going negative when Mark Kennedy points out that Ms. Klobuchar says one thing but does another? It seems to me that if voters can't trust a politician, they aren't likely to vote for them. I know this concept is foreign to Democrats but honesty matters.
Kennedy is trailing so badly in the polls that he has been the one to go negative on TV and radio. "It's surprising to have this coming from the candidate himself at this point in the race," said Morgan Felchner, editor of Campaign and Elections magazine, referring to radio and TV ads in which Kennedy accuses Klobuchar of hypocrisy. So far, Klobuchar has yet to mention Kennedy in her TV ads, although she has referred repeatedly to the "culture of corruption" among Republican leaders.
It's amazing to me that pundits like Mr. Felchner buy into the notion that Klobuchar's leading this race by a wide margin. Why isn't Mr. Felchner questioning Ms. Klobuchar's integrity when she talks about the Republicans' "culture of corruption"? Why isn't Mr. Felchner talking about the FBI looking into the corruption found in Ms. Klobuchar's campaign? I'll guarantee that Minnesotans will notice that Klobuchar's campaign is the only campaign in the nation that's the focus of an ongoing FBI investigation.

I suspect that the Minnesota Poll and the poll done by the Humphrey Institute will be proven for the frauds that they are. I'm certain that Minnesota voters will see that Amy Klobuchar is a phony and an 'empty suit' politician. Her Iraq policy sounds like an anti-war group wrote it for her. Her stance on immigration sounds like every other open borders Democrat. And she's railing against the 'Big Oil' companies' profits that are fattening her mutual fund accounts.

I'm officially putting her into a new category of Democrat: the 'Do as I say, not as I do' wing of the Democratic Party. (I know that they've been around forever but I want to be the first to name a wing of the party that.)



Posted Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:38 PM

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