Fair is fair. When Democrats cheat they deserve to be called out on it too.

Courtesy of The Hill:  

The chief of staff to freshman Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.) resigned on Friday after he was implicated in a plot to submit hundreds of fraudulent absentee ballots during the congressman’s primary election last year. 

Jeffrey Garcia, who's not related to the congressman, left at Rep. Garcia’s request after he took responsibility for the scheme, The Miami Herald reported. The resignation came hours after law enforcement officials raided the homes of former Garcia campaign employees as part of an investigation into the matter. 

“I’m shocked and disappointed about this,” Rep. Garcia, who said he was unaware of the scheme, told the Herald. “This is something that hit me from left field. Until today, I had no earthly idea this was going on.” 

This, of course, is not exactly good news Rep. Garcia personally, and he Democratic party in general, but what makes it even worse is this next part of the article.

Jeffrey Garcia declined to comment to the paper, which reported that he also worked for the campaign of Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.), who defeated Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) in 2012.

As you all know Allen West was a huge star to the Teabaggers, and even the hint that he did not lose he reelection bid fairly will be all that it takes to have the Right Wing call foul and insist on an investigation into wrong doing. (Especially since there WERE some irregularities.)There may well be NOTHING nefarious about Rep. Murphy's campaign, or any real reason to distrust the outcome of that election, but none of that matters in the GOP echo chamber, and in there this thing will get blown WAY out of proportion.

You know the thing about politics is that no one side can corner the market on unethical behaviors.

Even though recently it seems that the Republican party has been all unethical behavior all the time, the truth is that the history of American politics us chock full of examples of similar types of duplicity coming from the Democrats as well.

As good citizens it should be incumbent upon all of us to call out corruption or unethical behaviors whenever we see them, regardless of whether or not it puts our party, or favorite politicians, in a bad light or not.

And no that does NOT mean I will buy into every bullshit story dreamed up by Fox News about our President or the Democrats either. Only reputable journalists deserve our attention.