More front groups: Are they punched or bored?
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 18:07 Mr. Maven has a favorite way of referring to people who don’t seem to know where they stand, on this side or that: “Are they punched or bored?”
This has got to be the right catch-phrase for Patriot Majority - another front group, that would like to muddy the waters with Tea Baggers. Perhaps a noble cause, and the ‘Chickens for Checkups’ television ad is certainly a clever swipe at Sue Lowden. But, you still have to wonder if the Patriot Majority is really what they claim to be.
When I go to a front group website, I skip the front page of messaging, and go straight to the About Us tab. If there is one. There isn’t on Dan Hart’s “Don’t bet on Sandoval” website.
Unfortunate.
I want to know this: do they have the cojones to say who they are and what they stand for? Even better: who is funding them?
Sometimes the answer is yes, especially in the case of sourcewatch.org and factcheck.org. These show you - the American voter - how it should be.
If the organization you are looking at doesn’t do it up to this standard - start being suspicious.
