Once & for all, the key for the Donkeys to win the White House isn't to run "hard-hitting" response ads or to "joke" about their gaffes (or non-gaffes: see Al Gore & Inventing the Internet).

The key is to call out these jackass journalists/pundits/whores in public, face-to-face or in print whenever one of these absurd narratives gain traction.

As George Carlin said about the right -which could easily be applied to today's press - "these people don't understand subtle. You have to hit them hard.''

The biggest achilles heel for this alleged political party reamins the burden of its nice guy/gal, Faux Dems, who collect six-figure paychecks from TV for being "honest" and "reasonable". Saps like Lanny Davis, Kristen Powers, Nicholas Kristoff, Shrummy and the like.

Somerby and GG have been making this point for years.

Yet, here we are 13 weeks from election day, and the Dems continue to illustrate their naivete by showing up to a gunfight armed with little more than a butterknife and few pebbles in the pocket.

Sure, these ads (like the one feature on this post) make the Harold Fords and The TNR crowd all tingly with admiration - but in the long run they are useless.

Can't wait for the Denver Convention when the Big Brains of the party lecture the faithful about Unity, Bi-Partisanship, Change & Hope -a la' Kerry/Edwards '04.

That's soooo Pre-9/11 thinking.

But that scene will make a delightful appetizer for the GOP rally a little more than a week later, when the chickenhawks will put their squabbles behind them and rally behind the heroic War Vet and compare him to that Uppity, Harvard-educated, Muslim- sypmathizing, Appeasing, Negro who happens to married to Karla Marx.

That will be more than enough to convince the million or so swing-voting, Regular People - people the Establishment Hacks are counting on - in places like Missouri, Ohio, Florida and Nevada to vote for the White Guy.

Maggie Carlson (a.k.a. Ol' Missus, Ol' Fred) was on TV last night and she was OUTRAGED! about Fredo Gonzalez, Monica Goodling, Karl Rove and the current state of the DOJ.

Yes, the same Maggie Carlson who penned the love poem to W. in 2003 entitled, "Anyone Can Grow Up", has cleared the sand from her eyes to sniff out a relevant story seven years later.

Stay tuned for tomorrow, when Ol' Missus, Ol' Fred will pontificate about how the 2000 election was, ya' know, stolen from Gore and that it was, ya' know, wrong that W. commuted Scooter Libby's prison sentence.

In this infamous July 9, 2006 LA Times article (http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/09/opinion/oe-chait9) Chait correctly chides the "lefty bloggers'' for supporting Ned Lamont against Joe Lieberman.

He huffs, "The whole anti-Lieberman blog campaign has a self-fulfilling quality: They charge that Lieberman isn’t a Democrat, they drive him from the party, and they declare themselves to be correct. The more ex-Democrats they create, the more sure of their own virtue they become."

Jon hit another one out of the park with this synopsis of the liberals, Bush and the Iraq War - from an 11/20/05:http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/20/opinion/oe-chait20

""I believe that liberals loathe the war because they loathe Bush, rather than vice versa. What they want above all is for Bush to admit he made some huge mistakes in Iraq. It’s not a big thing to admit; everybody knows it’s true. A simple admission of the obvious would sate his foes – or enough of them, anyway."

Here's Jon rationalizing his sparkling decision to support the Iraq War. From Nov. 2005. To summarize, not only was he a little wrong about Iraq, but So Was the entire world...

"Everybody was wrong about the basic outlines of Iraq's weapons capability. Foreign intelligence agencies believed that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction. The Clinton administration had issued dire warnings. UN weapons inspectors had issued warnings that Iraq had not accounted for weapons that it had previously declared."

And he's a Liberal, or so I'm told.

2 ongoing Wars, an unsolved 7-year Anthrax scare that killed 5 people.

A top Govt. scientist- a religious, Christian/Catholic (?) fundamentalist -dies/commits suicide(?).

A $5.8 million payoff to another scientist falsely accused(?) in the same investigation.

"High-level government sources" falsely connect Anthrax with Iraq/Islam to various Beltway scribes and ABC news, in particular.

And while your at-it Mr. Reporter-Guy stock-up on cipro ASAP, just in case!

No, Nothing to see here folks, move along and keep quiet.

Oh by the way, what's the deal with Obama ordering OJ in a diner?

Not surprisingly, the Anthrax case hasn't struck anyone over at the rightwing blogs as a major story.

Or even a story.

Only a few random rumors in Chickenhawk land regarding the alleged Mad Scientist.

Seven years ago, the Anthrax mailings made all of these keyboard warriors head for cover under their desks for six months.

Now, with the biggest break in this unsolved case, hitting the papers on Thursay - Silence. Almost total silence!

Check out NRO: nothing.

Likewise Hugh Hewitt. And Freedom Fighter Roger L. Simon.

Glenn Reynolds dedicates a whole 2 lines on the case.

The scholarly Ann Althouse dedicates some space to Ivins' death - and her take is really worth a read if you are into black comedy. She is a lawyer, right?

Must be a bad case of amnesia spreading through Chickenhawk Land.

Headline and story from ABC is almost too good to be believed:

"Did Answers Die With Anthrax Suspect?"

Not surprisingly, govt. is also painting Ivins as some sort of psychopath with a great mind but emotional problems. Apprarently the question of "how did such a mentally unstable person, with homicidal tendencies come to such a position in the U.S. government?", hasn't crossed the mind of Brian Ross & his crack Investigative Team, yet.