Do Demorat Candidates Have Any Integrity?

I've been gone for awhile but more about that in another post. We have all heard "This election is a crossroad" or "This election will determine the future of the country" etc etc. And we have all heard "This election is the most negative one ever". The latter statement actually seems to be true.

In the US Senate campaign, blows are being struck back and forth by candidates and senatorial committees. Obviously my point of view is that the Talent campaign concentrated on the record while McCaskill knew she couldn't win on her record so she started distorting Talent's.

On the local level, the Dempsey/Koester race has gotten really nasty. As far as I can tell, Dempsey has kept to the high road displaying his record and encouraging the voters to review Koester's record of ineptness, incompetence, and questionale integrity. Those are not Dempsey's words but mine.

Koester and his allies, we all know who they are, Riddler and his cronies on the City Council as well as other democrat operatives, have taken a page out of the national and state democrat playbook, if you can't win on the facts - distort them! It is happening in the US Senate race and it is happening to Tom Dempsey. Benjamin Disreali never knew Koester and his cronies but he was thinking about there kind when he said that there are "lies, damn lies...". Tells you a lot about a person (McCaskill and Koester) when they can't win on their own vision and record.

Unlike his opponent, Tom Dempsey has the integrity and proven record of truly serving his district and the County.

Another race that is full of distortion is the Faith/Green race. Green, who has no ambition that doesn't come from his brother Tim, is seeking to distort his record and Sally Faith's record. He makes false claims against Sally, false claims that he actually did anything while he was in the legislature, and false claims that he would do anything if sent back.

His main complaint is the Republicans falsely claimed he went to Alaska at taxpayers expense. That was in fact inaccurate. However, it IS accurate that he planned to go to Alaska at taxpayer expense but then was told that in an upcoming election that would look bad and pulled out. He did in fact seek approval to go to Alaska and received it.

He also runs from his boating while intoxicated problem. He has received at least 2 of them resulting in his brother, when he was budget chairman, attempting to punish the water patrol for doing their job.

The Green's are not representative of St. Charles County and should be sent a clear message that their brand of politics are not wanted in St Charles.

Sally Faith should be sent back to Jefferson City to represent us as we would want to be represented.

Demorats steal from Shakespeare - protest too much

Just found this over on The Source. Seems the demorats may have forgotten a) their own past discretions and b) to adequately cover their "setup" trail.

Of course the demorats could always claim they never claimed to have any morals a family values. Seems like a catch 22 situation for them!

"Did Democrats Page Mark Foley? Ibd
Mon Oct 2, 7:00 PM ET



Scandal: Right after Mark Foley was revealed to have had inappropriate e-mail conversations with a 16-year-old page, he resigned and checked into rehab. Now, what did Democrats know, and when did they know it?

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Yes, you read that right: the Democrats. It's of course clear that Foley, a Republican representative from Florida, resigned for good cause. We don't defend him or his inexcusable behavior -- good riddance.

But it didn't take long at all after Foley's resignation for the Democrats to call for an investigation of the entire Republican leadership in the House, charging that GOP stalwarts knew early on that Foley, as they like to say in the rehab business, had a "problem."

Democrats have begun losing their once-significant lead in the polls, and a mere five weeks remain until the midterm elections. Is this scandal the Democrats' own "October Surprise," meant to throw the GOP into a tailspin shortly before the vote?

Recent polls show Democrats aren't doing very well on several key issues. What better way than a good, old-fashioned sex scandal to get people's minds off such things as the importance of winning the war in Iraq, our ongoing vulnerability to terrorist attack and the necessity of keeping the Bush economic boom going?

As it is, Republicans deny knowing about the explicit text messages that Foley sent to a 16-year-old congressional page back in 2003. In repudiating Foley, House Speaker Dennis Hastert called the messages "vile and repulsive."

Despite this, the immediate take by Democrats and much of the mainstream media was that this was a classic example of Republican hypocrisy -- talking "morals" and "values" while all the time shielding a child predator. But it was nothing of the kind.

If anything, the episode reveals the Democrats' hypocrisy about their own behavior. The fact that Foley resigned virtually within minutes of being told that ABC News had copies of his salacious e-mails and text messages indicates he at least felt shame for his actions. Can the same be said for Democrats?

Sadly, it doesn't seem so. How else can you explain the following?

In 1983, then-Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was caught in a similar situation. In his case, Studds had sex with a male teenage page -- something Foley hasn't been charged with.

Did Studds express contrition? Resign? Quite the contrary. He rejected Congress' censure of him and continued to represent his district until his retirement in 1996.

In 1989, Rep. Barney Frank (news, bio, voting record), also of Massachusetts, admitted he'd lived with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute who ran a gay sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank, it was later discovered, used his position to fix 33 parking tickets for Gobie.

What happened to Frank? The House voted 408-18 to reprimand him -- a slap on the wrist. Today he's an honored Democratic member of Congress, much in demand as a speaker and "conscience of the party."

In 2001, President Clinton, who had his own intern problem, commuted the prison sentence of Illinois Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and pressured her to lie about it. (Reynolds also was convicted of campaign spending violations.)

You get the idea. Democrats not only seem OK with the kind of behavior for which Foley is charged, but also they protect and excuse it. Only when it's a Republican do they proclaim themselves shocked -- shocked! -- when it comes to light.

We have a lot more questions about this whole affair. The timing of the revelations, as we noted, couldn't be more propitious for the Democrats. Turns out both the Democrats and several newspapers seem to have known about Foley's problem as far back as November, according to research by several enterprising blogs.

Why didn't they come forward then? Who dredged up these e-mails -- and why did they hold them until now? This reeks of political trickery.

We're glad Foley's gone. He betrayed Congress, his party and the trust of the 33 pages who serve in Congress, and their parents. He behaved immorally, and we won't be surprised at new revelations.

That said, if this scandal is the Democrats' answer to their problems at the polls, it's pretty pathetic. It shows a base contempt for the voters."

Wayward Republicans

Most of us are familiar with the antics of Anything But Right and his band of woeful followers. (I don't know about you but I am holding my breath waiting for his new and improved website. It would have to be an improvement, I don't know that it could get much worse but Anything But Right has a lot of potential.)

Now comes the rumor of one of Anything But Right's chief lieutenant's, let's call her British Petroleum (BP), assistance in recruiting a democrat candidate against one of the Republican incumbent reps. It's not important about who she may have recruited against but the fact that she may have done such a deed at all. She was after all the former Vice Chair of the Republican Central Committee with former being the operative word.

Disagreements and conflict within a family or in this case a party is normal and can be healthy. However, BP has long gone out of her way with the encouragement and support of Anything But Right, to take these healthy disagreements to unhealthy levels. Her crusade against Jeff Morrison for example went way beyond disagreement on issues to a personal vendetta and was apparently the beginning of her alliance with democrats.

No one seems to be able to confirm or refute BP's involvement in encouraging her democrat friend to run against the representative. Given BP's past escapades and alliances with democrats, it seems entirely possible that she did play a role. The fact that so many people can believe she MAY have had a part in this speaks to just how deeply she has earned her reputation as a wayward Republican.