DNC Grassroots Project Aims To Hold Republican Candidates Accountable

by Meenal Vamburkar | 3:43 pm, June 29th, 2010

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In preparation for what’s likely to be a vicious batch of midterm elections this November, the Democratic National Committee has launched The Accountability Project. The DNC intends for it to be a “project to hold Republican candidates accountable”–and they want your help!

The project’s website calls it a “grassroots, volunteer project” to hold Republicans accountable for “their claims, their public statements, and their campaign tactics.” But most importantly, it emphasizes that this is a platform for you. You, the people, are invited to record and send in videos of Republican candidate events and “submit copies of candidate mailers, emails, and attack ads.” They even include tips on how to record a good video.

This project is a response to “misleading attacks, false claims and empty rhetoric”:

For too long, our politics has been poisoned with misinformation and negative attacks. The most powerful way to combat these shadowy tactics is to drag them into the light of public scrutiny.

Through the Accountability Project, you can fight back, and show the American people the real choice they have this November.

While accountability in government — and especially in campaigning — is good and increasingly necessary, the DNC’s project has a clear bias. The website obviously implies that Republicans are the only ones with accountability concerns, when in reality it is a much larger and widespread problem throughout politics. Moreover, The Accountability Project does run the risk of turning into a GOP Gaffe Project, something which would surely elicit a strong negative response from the party in question.

2010 midterm elections, Democratic National Committee, DNC, DNC Accountability Project, political accountability

shootfromthehip

It’s getting to the point that the truth doesn’t even matter anymore to Republicans.

They just believe what they want to believe.

I just spent a long time on a different thread pointing out to a frequent Mediaite commenter that, in fact, the NYT did include info that Byrd was in the KKK in her bio.

They NYT did.

Then she just started complaining that, oh, the headline was biased.

It just doesn’t matter to the far right.

But the Dems had better fight back against the lies this fall to try and get their message (usually the truth) out.

But the echo chamber of lies gets louder every day.

Starts with Drudge, pings to talk radio and then Fox and the MSM “covers the controversy”

We’ve seen it again and again and again (death panels etc.)

I truly fear for our Democracy.
felixw

Hey, shootfromthehip, while you are on the topic of honesty — check this out: The Daily Kos admits that the polls it publishes have been fraudulent:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0610/Markos_charges_polling_fraud.html

Of course, the only surprise is here is that they are admitting it. Anyone who reads the Daily Kos knew long ago that the “facts” there are about as plausible as Bernie Madoff’s investment returns.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

Okay, if it’s launched by the DNC then by definition it’s not grassroots. That’s astroturf.

What a pathetic excuse to try and create competition to the vastly popular and very influential Tea Party. This is almost as pathetic as the Coffee Party.
C0nstant

cant wait until 4chan starts sending them videos
Pablo

Tony Westover said:
Okay, if it’s launched by the DNC then by definition it’s not grassroots. That’s astroturf.

Exactly.
jwazzz

I would suggest they change their letterhead/logo – the dreaded “C-word” jumps right out at you! Of course, this may have been in anticipation of a Palin run in “12.
shootfromthehip

Felix I don’t read Kos. Lame layout and boring.
T Ray

It is a truly sad day when our beloved Democrats has so little time to devote to working on what matters to the American people, but rather devote their time to “gotchas” so they can belittle the Republicans. I think I will become part of the Tea Party movement. I have been a Democrat for the past 22 years and think it is time for me to open my eyes and admit how lowly they have become in the political arena. We could do without most the politicians we currently have in office and I think it is time for me to start campaigning for anything but a Dem or Rep! They all sicken me.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

Accountability – a concept foreign to Republicans. When you try to hold them accountable they claim you’re ‘playing the blame game.’ I suppose they’re out there with OJ Simpson looking for the real culprit.
me1ranger

Hey why didn’t colby write this story? If a Republican beats the snot out of one of libs playing gotcha..I wonder if he’ll be the first to consider him a hero? By the way..did you guys see those violent tea-partiers at the G-20..Pelosi and the other lying cowards in the dem party were right..they are the greatest threat to our country.
DrFunke

Nothing will hold them accountable. They are daily caught red-handed with some idiotic argument and they just can’t admit that they did something wrong

How many times will we see someone caught dead yet either blame the liberal media, blame Democrats, or just make up something to get around being caught?

It’s a joke that most if not all objective people shake their head at