Cleaning Up The Game

Today as John McCain stumps in South Carolina to try and build his support, he stops to answer a question about the Steroid scandal in Major League Baseball

"it's time we get serious about the testing, its time we get serious about the penalties, its time we get serious about the integrity of the game..."

Certainly, this is a good statement about baseball - but where does it bleed over into McCain's politics? So far it doesn't. McCain is falsely accusing Mike Huckabee of the illegal tactics of Push Polling. Push Polling is basically the practice of phone calls to people's home's negatively shmearing (too much time at Einstein's bagels) other candidates. Never mind the phone banks and push polling - let's use the mainstream media like Mitt and McCain are doing today.

THE FACT's (as I am currently aware and will be looking to http://www.mikehuckabee.com/ the truth squad link for the campaign's take) as I understand it:

1. The Push Polling for Mike Huckabee is being done by a Third Party to which Mike Huckabee's campaign has requested they stop.

2. The polling from this particular third party was not smearing other candidates, but rather keeping the message positive and truthful - such as talking to people about Pro-Life who happen to be supporting McCain - exposing the harm that McCain has done for the Pro-Life movement as a Senator. That is not smearing - that is offering the facts - facts by the way that are not spun or twisted as what passes for "facts" from other camps when slamming Mike.

So - How does McCain's MLB remarks bleed over into his politics? Let's get serious about the issues, let's get serious about change in Washington, and let's get serious about the integrity and character of the candidate and the campaign game. John McCain has done enough to hinder the GOP in this election year with the McCain-Feingold bill. It has hurt the GOP's and the Dem's aren't affected. Makes you wonder the motivation behind the bill from this candidate with little or no money.