Category Archives: Ethics


Bad scandal day

So this morning was the Mitt Romney’s hypocritical bigotry towards Muslims scandal.
Then the Boston Herald broke that Romney’s affirmative-action judge had screwed up and let out a child-rapist before Romney gave her a promotion.
And now Rudy Giuliani was making New York City pay for his affair?
Proud day to be a Republican.

Tags: Ethics, Giuliani, Romney

Stock tactic: Sleazy bigoted phone calls

The Politico’s Jonathan Martin asked one of the kings of political sleaze what he thought of the Mitt Romney phone calls. He sees a historical antecedent in the the 1960 JFK race:
Just as Bobby Kennedy was behind anti-Catholic calls and literature to Catholic Households in The 1960 Democratic Party. I smell a dirty trick. I […]

Romney plays for the gutter; attacks Hillary over sex

I’ve been out of the country for about a week. So I come back, and start digging through the news. And I come to this ad by Mitt Romney.

Romney is classing this election up by attacking Hillary Clinton over sex with his "internship" line. I want to be clear about something.
We will lose […]

Richardson’s employees giving to their boss

You don’t often get to write this sentence, so I had to do it:

State of New Mexico
$277,230

University of New Mexico
$31,950

[…]

Hillary’s pork: Crowdsourcing project for the GOP

Yesterday, Kevin Hassett, an economist at AEI and a member of John McCain’s economics team, pointed out something that we forget. Hillary Clinton is a big ole porker:
Democrats have been so busy preparing the coronation of Hillary Clinton that they have failed to train a critical eye on her record.
When it comes to earmarks, […]

Clarity on Clinton

Andrew Sullivan makes a powerful argument against Hillary Clinton:
A thief and liar is hired by Clinton. But his thievery is less important to Clinton than his loyalty. After all, his theft was an attempt to keep president Clinton’s failures with respect to al Qaeda under wraps. And so he gets a pardon. Remember: the Clintons […]

Ironies of the Hsu scandal

I keep giggling whenever I read about the Norman Hsu scandal.
First, Fred Thompson got it right. Didn’t the Clinton’s learn anything from the fundraising scandals of the 90s?
Second, the first great fundraising scandal of the post-Abramoff ethics era is about an illegal donor. He didn’t give money for ideological reasons. He gave money so […]

Cheating Patriots fans?

Is Rob Bluey accusing Mitt Romney’s former driver, Dean Barnett, of defending cheating? Never…

Tag: Ethics

Wow. Returning $850k

How many candidates could take this hit to their CoH? The Clintons may be sleazy, but they are loaded and clever too.

Tags: Clinton, Ethics, Fundraising

PhoneyFred.org: More Romney dirty politics

Earlier today, Jonathan Martin pointed out the new www.phoneyFred.org website:
Clearly, though, this is no amateur effort.   The volume of information and the way that it’s sourced reeks of a grasstops hit-job.   Repeatingly calling Thompson "Phoney Fred" in the on-message style of political operatives, the site offers up unflattering quotes with the standard attribution style of […]