Do As I Say, Not As I Do

John Sununu, senator from New Hampshire became the first congressional republican to call for the ouster of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the wake of a few recent Justice Department scandals. Of course, Sununu standing up as the moral authority in this instance is interesting, given the dubious activities of his 2002 campaign.
"The 2002 Election NH "phone jamming" case revolves around the hiring by the New Hampshire Republican Party of the Virginia-based telemarketing firm GOP Marketplace. Republican operative Allen Raymond, who was president of the firm at the time, then "subcontracted the deed" to Mylo Enterprises Inc., a Pocatello, Idaho, phone bank shop. Prosecutors allege that 'GOP Marketplace' "was paid to make repeated hang-up phone calls to overwhelm the phone banks in New Hampshire and prevent them from getting Democratic voters to the polls" on Election Day, November 5, 2002. Six phone lines that were being run by Democratic "coordinated campaign offices," as well as phones in the offices of the Manchester firefighters union -- which was also doing a get-out-the-vote campaign that morning -- were jammed by 800 computer-generated hang up calls that tied up the lines for 1 1/2 hours."

There is nothing wrong, per se, with him calling for Gonzales to be removed for incompetence as Attorney General, I just wish it was coming from someone who wasn't marred by scandal himself; I wonder what he would say if someone called for him to be removed from the Senate for his campaign using dubious, illegal activities on election day in 2002.

Then again, Stanford prof Victor Davis Hanson had this to say in a recent op-ed, Bipartisan Hypocrisy
"In politics, hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each election year on campaigning. Image-makers, pollsters and media advisers shape every election. Fluffy candidates are removed enough from the electorate that the idea that their own actions should match their rhetoric is seen as hopelessly old-fashioned."