Over at his excellent, if insider-ish, campaign blog The Fix, Chris Cillizza has a video up about an attack ad running against Ernie Fletcher in Kentucky. The ad does a great job of using Fletcher's own promises to run a clean government and contrasting them with the indictments that have destroyed his reputation. As Cillizza points out, this avoids the usual trap for ethics investigations where voters assume both parties must be corrupt if one attacks the other for corruption. Beshear is set to defeat Fletcher in a landslide next month, and Democrats in Alaska and other states with corrupt Republican incumbents should be taking notes.
--Sam Boyd
