President Obama and the Democrats have run their last two campaigns (’06 and ‘08) on the coattails of widespread media reports of Republican scandal. Mark Foley. Tom DeLay. Larry Craig. In general, Repubicans have received a multitude of horrible Press over this period, but this isn’t anything new. The Press is merciless in their pursuit of misdeed on the part of people with whom they ideologically disagree. Have we heard much about Louisiana’s William Jefferson? Charlie Rangel? And of course, one of the most-upheld Senators in Democratic history, Ted Kennedy, is widely regarded as a murderer, but somehow keeps his seat.

So Obama was about change, right? Three nominees for Obama staff positions had issues with proper tax reporting, and one person has the most responsibility for executive spending, Tim Geithner, our Treasury Secretary.

We also heard of Norman Hsu, the pyramid schemer who gave bundles of money to the Democrats, money that was mostly unaccounted for, and likely came from overseas sources. But of course, this was an isolated incident, right.

Wrong.

The SEC’s fraud charges may be the least of accused financial scammer R. Allen Stanford’s worries. Federal authorities tell ABC News that the FBI and others have been investigating whether Stanford was involved in laundering drug money for Mexico’s notorious Gulf Cartel.

Authorities tell ABC News that as part of the investigation, which has been ongoing since last year, Mexican authorities detained one of Stanford’s private planes. According to officials, checks found inside the plane were believed to be connected to the Gulf cartel, reputed to be Mexico’s most violent gang. Authorities say Stanford could potentially face criminal charges of money laundering and bribery of foreign officials.

I won’t post the entire article, but seeing that it’s ABC News, make sure that you scroll to the bottom to see his connections; if it were a Repubican financier, it would have been in the headline and twice in the first paragraph. He supported the Democrats, “Oh, by the way, he gave some money to Dem…nevermind.” Fair and balanced reporting, always.

We have a party claiming “We won” just about everyday. The problem for me is that it appears a LOT of international money was used in order to bring about this victory. Of course, the real irony comes at John McCain’s expense, because if not for his very liberal campaign spending bill, I doubt this money would have made much of an impact, and he might have overcome this sustained media attack. Instead, it shot him right in the foot.