Fair Play and Dirty Tricks

News from the Pennsylvania senate race suggests that, at least for Republican Rick Santorum, winning isn't the most important thing, it's the only thing. Imagine being behind in the polls, having been trailing your Democratic opponent for some time, by very large numbers. If you can't get more people to vote for you, maybe you can figure out a way to get fewer people to vote for the Democrat. Hmmm ...

Paul Kiel at the website TPMmuckracker.com brings us the news:

Every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate candidate is actually a conservative -- except for the candidate himself.

The Luzerne County Green Party raised $66,000 in the month of June in order to fund a voter signature drive. The Philly Inquirer reported yesterday that $40,000 came from supporters of Rick Santorum's campaign (or their housemates). Also yesterday, we confirmed that another $15,000 came from GOP donors and conservatives. Only three contributions, totaling $11,000, remained as possible legit donations.

Today, I confirmed that those came from GOP sources.

Nice.

That leaves only one contribution, for $30, as a legitimate donation from a Green Party supporter. That came from the candidate himself, Carl Romanelli. He made it to his own campaign fund, not the local Green Party.

See, that's why the Democrats aren't fit to run the country: they wouldn't have thought it right to completely fund a bogus candidate they in no way agreed with, just to split the opposition. Wimps.