The Democrats ran on this in 2006 – and turn about might be very fair play for the GOP in 2010:
For nearly two years, economic issues have held the top spot in terms of importance among voters
But the latest national telephone survey shows that 83% now view government ethics and corruption as very important, placing it just ahead of the economy on a list of 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. Eighty-two percent (82%) of voters see the economy as very important.
Back in 2006, the Democrats were being absurd – while there was corruption in the GOP, it was nothing compared to the Democrats’ corruption while they were the minority party. As Matt and I detailed in Caucus of Corruption, Democrats make corruption par for the course in their actions – this is different from the GOP which just has the more normal run of moral failures common to any group of human beings. One example from Caucus will suffice: Nancy Pelosi was fined early on in her political career for failure to report an in-kind donation – the fine was far less than the benefit received. Lesson learned: its ok to cheat, because the benefit outweighs the cost…and thus it was perfectly natural for Nancy to break campaign finance laws to purchase House Democrat support for her elevation to then-Minority Leader. This means, of course, that we have Speaker Pelosi because she illegally bribed members of her own party for her position…and there’s not a Democrat out there who will even mention this fact.
Because Democrats use corruption as a matter of course, it stands to reason that once in power, they’d just go even more wild with it than they did as the “out” party. And so they have – with people like Jack Murtha, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Charlie Rangel and many others breaking laws faster than people can count. And now its looming as an issue – likely because of Breibart’s expose’ of ACORN. For the past few years, ACORN and the Democrats have been identified in the public mind – especially with ACORN-in-Chief sitting in the Oval Office (when he’s not busy begging foreigners for favors in Copenhagen). The nauseating stew has been made, and now the Democrats are going to have to eat it.
As an aside, this will only work well, in the long run, for the American people if we GOPers become pretty darn good in such matters – and thus people like John Ensign (a man I’ve voted for three times) should step down…as should any other GOPer out there under such a serious moral cloud for actions while in office. Perfection is not possible, but we can certainly be better – and just being a bit better than the Democrats is too low a bar.
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