Question: why do bootleggers promote laws against whiskey sales and why do madams want girls to remain chaste

Answer: it reduces the competition.

Donald Luzatto is inveighing again.  This time it’s about third party ads.  He’s terribly upset that the Chamber of Commerce is running ads against the Democrat, Tim Kaine, running for the open Senate seat in Virginia.

They're cheesy ads built around a cheap animated train trip through a Virginia that looks nothing like Hampton Roads, but for pure bald partisan hackery, they're undeniably effective. Kaine is, in the Chamber's crude iconography, a tax-raising, health-care-reform supporting, Obama-loving child of Satan.

Like the bootlegger denouncing the “demon rum” Donny  - and the whole MSM establishment – is losing its former unchallenged ability to lie about politics and doesn’t like it one bit.  The MSM taught the rest of us everything we know about crucifying the opposition with smears and innuendo.  They just didn’t know that they were giving their readers a tutorial on the subject. 

Need a refresher course?  Walk with me back in time not too long ago when they crucified former Governor and Senator George Allen as a racist because of a comment he made to an opposition researcher who was stalking his campaign.

We only have to go back eight days to find one of the Virginian Pilot’s editorial writers Daryl Lease, demanding to see Romney’s tax returns because Daryl suspects … no I’ll let him tell you:

So what's in those returns?

Some folks, like Reid, speculate that Romney managed to pay zippo in taxes for multiple years - not exactly the sort of business prowess admired by most Americans.

Other folks wonder if Romney has had more cash stashed in sunny tax havens such as the Cayman Islands than already revealed.

I suspect that it's much more mundane than tax avoidance. If I were in Reno, I'd wager that Romney is hiding some really embarrassing business investments and charitable contributions.

Maybe he sank millions in a failed start-up company - say, "Seamus to the Wind" - to make solar-powered rooftop dog carriers for cross-country trips. Maybe R&D blew the investment on windshield wipers, and Romney is afraid of seeing all that in a campaign ad.

Or what if Romney donated money to Habitat for Your Vanity, a group that helps Americans build their very own multi-story car elevators?

See, this is why we should leave the political commentary to the professionals in the MSM, they’re so much more mature about it.  They don’t go in for “cheesy” and “cheap.”  These inhabitants of the house of ill repute would rather not have all that competition.