[FairOpinion]

Sure, they don't need to PAY for attack ads, the MSM is running them 24/7 for free, attacking President Bush and the Republicans.

[SandRat]

They always try to do that when they're on the receiving end; but never when they're on the transmitting end. Then they say "Hey! Politics is a Rough-n-Tumble affair. If you can't take it you shouldn't be in Politics."

[Andy'smom]

Cameron Kerry - didn't he get caught breaking into the headquarters of his brother's opponents? Isn't that dirtier that attack ads?

[OldFriend]

Losers R Us..........sheesh.

[LiteKeeper]

Who defines "negative"? Who distinguished between "negative" and "disagreement"?

[Txsleuth]

BWAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[smoothsailing]

Now that's just silly! :-)

:)

[Tall_Texan]

How can you debate a lefty when you can't speak the truth about them without it being labelled a personal attack?

Opponent: "Candidate X voted to raise taxes 28 times."

X: "That's a scurrilous personal attack."

Opponent: "X is quoted right here as saying he thinks the military is wrong and should be disbanded."

X: "Another right-wing attack dog charge. Americans are tired of negative campaigning"...

[DBrow]

Substitute "effective" for "attack" and I think we'll all see what ads the independant review comission will come up with as being "bad".

Why are they worried? Has a Republican that might win entered the Mass goobernatorial race? I thought it was all Democrats running, once Romney backed out.

[Once-Ler]

How does the rats building a committee around their press releases rate as news? The drive-by-media doesn't even try to hide their role as DNC propaganda mouthpieces anymore.

[infidel29]

The state Democratic Party has created a four-member panel... that will review... and publicly rebuke candidates who use negative attacks.

...and... what? As opposed to positive attacks?

Whoo-boy, watch out, nobody wants to be publically rebuked by Mike Dukakis.

...and what's the deal with all the 'Fn' Kerrys? John F.... Cameron F.....

[Brad from Tennessee]

As I remember, during the 1988 Democratic presidential primaries Dukakis leaked to the press some video tapes that proved his opponent Joe Biden was a plagarist. Shortly afterward Biden suffered a brain aneurysm and almost died. Cameron Kerry was arrested after breaking into one of his idiot brother's opponent's campaign office with the intent of wiretapping the phones. Having these two characters as moral watchdogs is like having Libya chair the UN Human Rights Commission.

[mirkwood]

[longtermmemmory]

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.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Michael Dukakis is STILL ALIVE?

[OpusatFR]

The MoveOn ad attacking Thelma Drake has hurt.

....the democrats. LOL!

[steveyp]

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.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Mommy! Those nasty Wepubwickans are picking on me! Make 'em stop it, Mommy! Tell the Boston Globe to make 'em stop it!

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.

[Allegra]

Dukakis heads watchdog panel...

Who?

[IamConservative]

....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..