Lying For Votes

New Democrats have one thing in common with Old Democrats. They lie.

The more pervasive lie is the one favored by John Kerry, that he's actually far more conservative than his voting record.

Democrats face an uphill climb in their campaign to regain control of the Senate. If they have a fighting chance, it's because some of their candidates are sounding like Republicans.

The Democratic candidate in Alaska supports President Bush's call to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The Democrat running in South Carolina supports Bush's call for a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage, and the Democratic candidate in Oklahoma is in favor of repealing the District of Columbia's tough gun control law.

The strategy reflects the fact that Democrats must win several states carried by President Bush in the 2000 election.

Probably nowhere is this more evident than in South Dakota, where the Senate's lead Democrat, Tom Daschle has been running ads that portray him as an ally of Presdient Bush.