What do John Runyan and Pat Meehan have in common? Both their campaigns for Congress have been victimized by Democratic subtrefuge to promote fake Tea Party candidates to split the anti-Liberal vote.

My opponent, career politician John Adler and his campaign,” Runyan says, “have been caught red-handed planting a fake Tea Party candidate in my race to defraud and disenfranchise voters. Newspapers across the district have criticized Adler for his lies and sleazy campaign, and the state's largest radio station called Adler's Tea Party plant scheme the dirtiest political trick they had ever seen.”

He adds: “I have asked Congressman Adler multiple times to answer for this despicable behavior and come clean, but he consistently dodges the question.” Runyan tells me that he feels he has been backed into a corner and forced to launch a Web site that exposes the truth about what is going on.

According to published reports, Steve Ayscue, a paid consultant to the Camden County, N.J., Democratic Committee, recruited volunteers to gather the signatures necessary to qualify Peter DeStefano onto the ballot representing the “NJ Tea Party” in the critical and highly competitive Third Congressional District.

This smarmy strategy seems to be backfiring all across the nation.