Posted on 07/09/2006 6:01:09 PM PDT by george76
Democrats seek to curb attack ads... Dukakis heads watchdog panel...
The state Democratic Party has created a four-member panel, headed by former governor Michael S. Dukakis, that will review campaign advertisements and publicly rebuke candidates who use negative attacks.
Party chairman Philip W. Johnston created the panel and will serve on it, along with Dukakis and Cameron F. Kerry, brother of US Senator John F. Kerry; and Katherine M. Clark of Melrose, a former state Senate candidate who is chairing a statewide campaign effort for the Democratic Party.
Johnston, elected party chairman in 2000, said he believes that a major reason many Democratic nominees for governor have failed to win in general elections is the barrage of negative ads that fill the airways and are mailed to voters during primaries.
``I believe the party has a real responsibility to do what it can to minimize the political damage to our nominees during the primary," Johnston said.
``This initiative can act as a deterrent to candidates and make their media consultants think twice before they produce harshly negative commercials attacking their opponents."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
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.
Cameron Kerry - didn't he get caught breaking into the headquarters of his brother's opponents? Isn't that dirtier that attack ads?
Losers R Us..........sheesh.
Who defines "negative"? Who distinguished between "negative" and "disagreement"?
BWAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAA!
:)
lol..yeppers...it sounds like a "club for out of work politicians"..to me.
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"...
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.
The party of no ideas.
All they can do is be negative.
The DUmmie strategy is to be against everything.
and to offer nothing serious.
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.
...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.....
There are too many " F' ing " Kerrys...
8-)
Cameron Kerry (born September 6, 1950) is the younger brother and political confidant of John F. Kerry. The day before the primary election in which John Kerry was seeking his district's nomination in his race for the U.S. House of Representatives, Cameron Kerry was caught in the basement of the same building that his brother's opponent kept his campaign headquarters in. John Kerry's headquarters was also in the building. Cameron was charged with breaking and entering. One month later, the charges were dropped after the Kerry campaign explained that Cameron was in the building because he was in his brother's campaign headquarters to investigate rumors that his brother's campaign telephone lines were being wiretapped.
Yeah, he's just another Democrat "culture of corruption" scumbag.
Ahhhh... so the penalty for a 'pub using an "attack ad" is for the 'rats to "rebuke" with an ad attack in return. Sounds like same-old lame-old to me. Actually, its worse: the intention is to put the 'pubs on notice - don't try anything, while the 'rats get to define 'attack' in such a way as to give them free reign to "rebuke" the pubs.
Good find !
"culture of corruption"
I guess so, but honestly, who cares? The dems are going to attack anyways whether they are "justified" or not since they get to set the ground rules. The truth doesn't matter to them, especially if it paints them guilty of something. They'll just whine about the republicans being mean and muddy the waters to conceal the truth.
Sounds like Hamas and the Palis, demanding a ceasefire because the Israelis are kicking their butts all over Gaza. Losing hurts.
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.
Michael Dukakis is STILL ALIVE?
The MoveOn ad attacking Thelma Drake has hurt.
....the democrats. LOL!
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.
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.
Priceless...
But, please tell me that your pic of Kerry is reversed. He wouldn't dare salute with his left hand, or would he?
Who?
The picture that just keeps on giving (good laughs).
And now they are cutting off the one area of political discorse they have. If a Donk can't say something negative, he can't say anything at all.
What are they going to do, come out foursquare for blue skies and fluffy bunnies? They got nothing to say.
....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..
But it did not happen at the Watergate Hotel, so the MSM can be forgiven for not seeing that this was "Another Watergate"...
Hey, at least Benny Hill is funny (Not really fair to compare him to Kerry. taints his name.)
They could begin by stopping their use of them. But the sad thing is, they work, so both parties will never completely drop them from their play book.
It seems more likely that they're interested in devising some method to silence the American people in general, such as the Swift boat veterans. The dems do not really believe in free speech.
"...didn't he get caught breaking into the headquarters of his brother's opponents?"
Sounds like Watergate to me. But wait, this about democrats, so it was just an innocent misunderstanding.
Kerry Murphy Healey, the lt gov, is running as the sole GOP candidate. Christy Mihos is running as an independent;
Reilly, Patrick, and Gabrieli as Dems. There's a chance
Healey and Mihos will split the anti-Dem-hack vote and a Dem
will wind up in the corner office again...
>>But in 1982, Dukakis, in a tough fight to regain the governor's office, ran several strongly negative ads against Governor Edward J. King, a Democrat, including one that claimed taxpayers were paying a ``corruption tax" during King's term. Another Dukakis ad, which was quickly pulled, featured a man calling King a ``son-of-a bleep."
Yes. And wasn't the Dukakis-for-prez campaign partially derailed by the Willie Horton ad? There's a "negative ad"
for you (a FACTUAL one!)
from Wikipedia: Horton "is a convicted felon who was the subject of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program that released him while serving a life sentence for murder, without the possibility of parole, providing him the opportunity to commit a rape and armed robbery. A political advertisement during the 1988 U.S. Presidential race was critical of the Democratic nominee and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis for his support of the program...
"There is some disagreement about whether the Republicans first brought up Willie Horton in the campaign, or whether in fact Al Gore did. Some believe that Horton's name first surfaced during the general election. They say that Senator Al Gore raised only the general issue of the furlough program during the 1988 Democratic presidential primary. In June of 1988, after Dukakis had clinched the Democratic Party nomination, Republican candidate George H.W. Bush seized on the Horton case, bringing it up repeatedly in campaign speeches. Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater, bragged that "by the time this election is over, Willie Horton will be a household name." Media consultant Roger Ailes was reported to remark "the only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it."
So Dukakis knows well about "attack ads".
This is a picture of _the last Democrat to be elected governor in Massachusetts_, way back in '86. Even my ultra-liberal home state has SOME sense!
Thanks! Is Healey really considered an opponent? I've heard very little about her.
As for Willie Horton, despite the doubt shown in the quote, it WAS Algor who first used the issue against Dukakis in the primaries- then the press all blamed it on the republicans.
of course they are only talking about attack ads on each other, they will still use attack ads on republicans, but really why do the democrats keep trotting out these losers for advice?
I mean if dukakis had a clue how to win wouldn't he have won, I mean they keep using bob shrum and the guy is like 0-10
thank god they are so stupid...
plus they still blame bush 43 for willie horton even though it was al gore that brought it up in the democratic primary
Without attack ads against Bush, Cheney and Rice, they have not ads which sponsor their ideas, their issues or agendas. They have nothing. What blather!
She's kind of laid low--preferring not to take part in debates till her Dem. opponent is officially chosen. If elected she would be the first woman to be elected in her own right as Governor--as opposed to Jane Swift, who served as acting governor after Cellucci took a job as Amb. to Canada. (Swift's
poll numbers were so low she dropped out of the '02 race
and Mitt Romney became the GOP nominee and, eventual, governor.)
http://www.healeycommittee.com/meet_kerry.html
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