If you can't say something nice... use a Push Poll

Philly Inquirer: Dastardly push polls need to get heave-ho
Most of us can probably remember our moms telling us, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.".

Lest anyone thing I'm being a hypocrit, there is a big difference between satirical criticism of my least favorite congressman on a blog, and that same congressman paying a polling organization to call voters with smears and innuendo about his opponent.

According to the article in the Philly Inquirer, the Weldon camp would have you believe that they did not hire the push poll company (Venture Data) directly. However, Weldon hired Progressive Opinion Strategies which appears to have hired Venture Data (according to the article "are often aligned in polling operations"). Venture Data isn't making the calls for free. And who else besides Weldon's campaign would be interested in the data and paying for it?

If Sestak were to get the campaign equivalent of the PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing), the title would likely be
"Weldon Determined to Attack us by Flying Rumors into Voters".

What kind of rumors?

• Implications that Sestak let Bin Laden get away. Weldon must have Sestak confused with George Bush, who diverted forces to Iraq and let Bin Laden escape.
  
• Soft on terrorism? This from a congressman that bases his policies on a discredited source that claimed Bin Laden was dead.
  
• Tool of the trial lawyers? As opposed to tool of Big Oil, pharmaceutical industry and Russian's biggest energy company?
  

Gee, Curt, you are going to have to do better than that, but the problem is you can't.

The American people want to turn this country back in the right direction and you've voted for the wrong direction too often. Just like a full diaper, it's time for a change.