Friday, November 03, 2006

Biden Campaign Gets Slapped

Link: Biden's attack over sex offenders is unfair, untrue and should stop

Like my blog over at Right On The Right, my political interests have been dormant for a few months. I think the negativity all over the map politically has afforded a lack of interest on my part. Not to mention the fact I've been looking more and more skyward towards where God wants me to be, and I think he'd kinda look at politics with distaste.

Nonetheless, where I work, we like to have on the radio. All of the sudden, Joe's son starts running ads blasting Ferris Wharton over some 800 or so child sex offenders being lost, and that it was his fault. So I'm intrigued, because I kinda thought that a prosecutor is supposed to prosecute, and after that the responsibility falls on the prison system, parole board, and other Executive Branch-type roles.

And the other impression that I got was that someone was enlisting that wonderful pre-election tactic, "The October Surprise." That was in fact confirmed pretty quickly, since this was information that was known:
"Danberg said Wednesday he learned about the matter this summer from police, and convened a meeting with Col. Thomas F. MacLeish, state police superintendent, and other police leaders."

It's unclear about the timeline; did the Democrats feed this info to the News Journal to help create some negative buzz, or did the News Journal publish this on their own volition? And if the News Journal did their own investigation, did they sit on it?

The link I listed atop this entry is an editorial from today's NJ. They scold Biden and his campaign for using their article to smear Wharton's record. This gives the appearance that they were in no way influenced by the Democratic committee to run this article.

So now we'll have to see if the mudslinging has already done it's damage. One would hope that this would scar the Biden campaign and portray him as a pol who will go to any length to obtain the position he seeks. I'm just afraid that there are too many people in this state who will see the Biden name and blindly give him the vote. I'm sure that's what the State Democratic Party and the Bidens have been hoping all along.

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