Everything About Politicians Is Fair Game

Online WSJ ^ | 11 sept 08 | DAVID PEREL

[rellimpank]

The private lives of the presidential candidates are off limits. Writing about people who do not hold elected office constitutes shameful scandal mongering. The families of the candidates should not be exploited for publicity.

I know all of this to be true because Barack Obama said it. And so did John McCain. And so did some liberal bloggers, who didn't like the National Enquirer's revelations about John Edwards's infidelity -- and proclaimed, in far-left argot, that what a candidate does behind closed doors should stay behind closed doors, and not be used to judge fitness for office. [Everything About Politicians Is Fair Game] Chad Crowe

Then Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter turned up pregnant. The liberal blogosphere flung open the bedroom door with gleeful apostasy while fleeing from their previous Sanctity of Privacy dogma.

[JusPasenThru]

OMG! Lefties are hypocrites! Who would have known? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!

[weegee]

Socialists lie. Always.

They are just using the politics of personal destruction to “rough up” Mrs. Palin before she gets in front of the cameras at the debates.

[ExTexasRedhead]

IMO, turnabout is needed with gloves off, climb in the gutter where Liberals live and breed, and fight them using their tactics back on them. Send 100’s of investigators to expose every skeleton on the Messiah’s life and domestic terrorist ties and those of his America-hating wife. When they’re done with the Messiah’s anal background check, then start on every Liberal in the US Congress. When the investigators are through with that then they can start on RAT voter fraud.

[Piquaboy]

Amen!

[ZULU]

What you say makes sense.

The Repubs can never seem to do this. This is one reason why, ULTIMATELY, but not in this election, we need a third political party.

In general, the Republican PArty is no longer an effective foil to the Bolsheviks in the Democrat Party.

[ExTexasRedhead]

A third political party won’t fix the gutter politics that defines and is the RAT party. Our troops are putting their lives on the line to protect and defend this country from our foreign enemies. It should follow that we do no less here at home against our political enemies. IMO, Liberals are just as dangerous as Al Qaeda when it comes to our future and freedom.

[donnab]

personally I think McCain needs to stay on message and people like those here can and bloggers can do the dirty work in the mud. I agree that investigators have to go after Obama. But much has been brought out...the media wont go after it.
Its up to us to make sure people know.

[justiceseeker93]

The posted article is pretty good piece, especially when you consider that it is written by the Editor in Chief of the National Enquirer.

But if this David Perel thinks that "Everything About Politicians is Fair Game," then why hasn't his paper ever discussed the the biggest political scandal in our lifetimes: the murder of Vincent Foster and the role of the then-president and his wife in the crime and the cover-up?!!!

[Eva]

Let’s start with demanding coverage of the scandal surrounding Chicago politics and Mayor Daly. There was an excellent article, I think, on National Review, yesterday. It could have been in the WSJ.

Anyway, I was struck by the relevance after hearing Obama site Mayor Daly as a reference for associating with Ayres. O’Reilly, of course, let the comment pass.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Paid political ads on national TV and radio should be used to get the truth out since the drive-by media won’t. My guess is that the national Liberal-biased networks won’t let us buy air time. Welcome to the new dictatorship instituted by Liberals.

[justiceseeker93]

My guess is that the national Liberal-biased networks won't let us buy air time.

I have seen McCain ads on local affiliates of the networks. Although some have been commented upon nationally, like the one that played on Obama's "celebrity" status by getting Paris Hilton and some other Hollywood character in it, they seemed to be kind of tepid in their criticism of Obama. But now they would be smart to use some clips from Sarah Palin's stump speeches to capitalize on her popularity.