Dirty politics - who else but the Republicans

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) was running a robo-dialing campaign that had purposedly designed the automated messages to sound like they were coming from the Democratic candidates. The robo-dialing was done in such an obnoxious manner (sometimes calling as many as 18 times in a row) it was probably designed to make the recipients annoyed at the Democratic candidate whose name was mentioned at the beginning of the message.

NRCC's defense: "We did nothing illegal". That's right. Politicians, in their infinite wizdom, have made themselves exempt from many of the anti-annoyance laws they've passed over the years. They can spam, while nobody else can. And they can robo-dial to their hearts content.

I'm not sure how all this jives with the Family Values campaign the Republicans are running though. I wonder if the Family Values according to Republicans include deceipt, unethical campaigning and annoying others as they please?

Update: Washington Post picked up the story as well.

-TPP