You Say Tomato, I Say...

While the pundits thrash about for explanations as to why so many Americans are fed up with BOTH mainstream political parties, here's an article that underscores a common problem: Whenever one of the two lambastes the other for unethical or less than transparent behavior, it's not too long until we learn that the accuser is just as guilty as the accused!

While President Obama and other Democrats have excoriated Republican "front groups" for using secret money to pay for attack ads, Democratic political committees have begun doing something similar: collecting cash from outside nonprofit groups that don't disclose their contributors and using the money to pay for negative campaign commercials, campaign records show.

One group, Patriot Majority PAC — a Democratic political committee that has run a hard-hitting $1.7 million attack ad campaign against Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for Harry Reid's Senate seat in Nevada — has gotten one of its largest donations, $250,000, from a liberal nonprofit that doesn’t release the names of any of its contributors, the records show.

Another newly formed political committee, America's Families First Action Fund, which is running negative commercials against Republicans in House races across the country, recently got $1 million from a closely related nonprofit affiliate, the records show. Both organizations were set up over the summer by Democratic strategists, who emphasized in a memo to donors that contributions to the nonprofit could be kept anonymous...

Now, I think there is no question that the groups that favor the GOP have been the worst transgressors this election season, but if the Democrats are employing the same strategy too, it's really hard to cast aspersions on the other side.

Ya know, those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!