Posted on 07/09/2006 6:01:09 PM PDT by george76
Democrats seek to curb attack ads... Dukakis heads watchdog panel...
The state Democratic Party has created a four-member panel, headed by former governor Michael S. Dukakis, that will review campaign advertisements and publicly rebuke candidates who use negative attacks.
Party chairman Philip W. Johnston created the panel and will serve on it, along with Dukakis and Cameron F. Kerry, brother of US Senator John F. Kerry; and Katherine M. Clark of Melrose, a former state Senate candidate who is chairing a statewide campaign effort for the Democratic Party.
Johnston, elected party chairman in 2000, said he believes that a major reason many Democratic nominees for governor have failed to win in general elections is the barrage of negative ads that fill the airways and are mailed to voters during primaries.
``I believe the party has a real responsibility to do what it can to minimize the political damage to our nominees during the primary," Johnston said.
``This initiative can act as a deterrent to candidates and make their media consultants think twice before they produce harshly negative commercials attacking their opponents."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Good find !
"culture of corruption"
I guess so, but honestly, who cares? The dems are going to attack anyways whether they are "justified" or not since they get to set the ground rules. The truth doesn't matter to them, especially if it paints them guilty of something. They'll just whine about the republicans being mean and muddy the waters to conceal the truth.
Sounds like Hamas and the Palis, demanding a ceasefire because the Israelis are kicking their butts all over Gaza. Losing hurts.
Dukakis!? thats rich. Anyone who has heard him speak at a dinner has heard how partisan and attacking he can be.
This is very "Jimmy Carter" of him.
Michael Dukakis is STILL ALIVE?
The MoveOn ad attacking Thelma Drake has hurt.
....the democrats. LOL!
As this is in Mass, the only negative ads they are looking to thwart are those against the incumbent. The negative ad is critical to the challenger attempting to kill off an incumbent.
Clearest indication of incumbency protection I've seen since McFeiGold.
Republican Governor Ed King (who deposed Dukakis after his first term as Governor) won a liable action against the Boston Globe showing they had acted with "actual malice" in printing untruths about him during his rematch with Dukasis, a rematch which the little twerp won. Nothing negative there, no sir, just rock solid journalism in the vaunted traditions of Mary Mapes.
Priceless...
But, please tell me that your pic of Kerry is reversed. He wouldn't dare salute with his left hand, or would he?
Who?
The picture that just keeps on giving (good laughs).
And now they are cutting off the one area of political discorse they have. If a Donk can't say something negative, he can't say anything at all.
What are they going to do, come out foursquare for blue skies and fluffy bunnies? They got nothing to say.
....In other news, wheel chair bound quadraplegics all walked home from the John Edwards for President campaign stop in a socially decrepit neighborhood of Detroit where woman, infant and children have been most effected by the Republican "Big Oil" tax policies of the now much warmer world of the 2000's..
But it did not happen at the Watergate Hotel, so the MSM can be forgiven for not seeing that this was "Another Watergate"...
Hey, at least Benny Hill is funny (Not really fair to compare him to Kerry. taints his name.)
They could begin by stopping their use of them. But the sad thing is, they work, so both parties will never completely drop them from their play book.
It seems more likely that they're interested in devising some method to silence the American people in general, such as the Swift boat veterans. The dems do not really believe in free speech.
"...didn't he get caught breaking into the headquarters of his brother's opponents?"
Sounds like Watergate to me. But wait, this about democrats, so it was just an innocent misunderstanding.
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