Cameras on the campaign trail

I actually heartily support this tactic. It's quite a neat way to catch candidates who speak out of both sides of their mouth, and a good way to intimidate candidates against putting their mouths in gear before their brain makes it out of neutral. Although in this case it's being levied as a weapon against a Republican candidate, I think it's a tactic the GOP should adopt in other races. Heck, why didn't anyone think of doing this with Kerry, the person to which the tactic would most apply?

Come to think of it, McGavick - and other candidates - should turn this inside out. They should film their own appearences and put it on YouTube or something of that nature. That allows them to take the high road and say "look how open and honest I'm being, you can see everything I've said on this issue online, and you'll find it's consistent." It also means that when the MSM tries to distort or misrepresent something they say, or to take a quote out of context, it's very easy for viral marketing tools - blogs included - to quickly and accurately rebut the point by saying "let's go to the tape."

The story notes that in a political campaign, you can build your candidate up or tear the other side's candidate down. The Democrats are using this technology to tear the other side's candidate down, but I think the same idea can be leveraged into a way to build our candidates up. Are you paying attention to this, Newt?