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Anna Greenburg, a Democratic pollster, and David Winston, a GOP "pollster", were on just now. So a caller predictably calls in with the smear du jour (well, one of them at least, the other being about how Obama and Ayers are such close buddies, which the very next caller called in about--they really are predictable, these ratfuckers), about how Clinton, Frank and Dems are solely to blame for the meltdown because they forced banks to lend to "minorities" (tranlation: lazy, shiftless welfare queen blacks and filthy illegal aliens).
The so-called GOP "pollster", of course, jumped all over it and insisted that this was completely true. Greenberg, to her credit--I've long liked her because she's smart and tough and not afraid of a fight--shot this down, basically saying that it was utter silliness to assert that a party that controlled congress for 12 of the past 14 years was unable to regulate the financial markets because of one super-powerful member of the minority who somehow prevented it from doing this. She all but burst out in laughter and stood up to slap him on the face.
So the GOP has revealed its twin lines of attack in the coming month:
One, exploit the financial meltdown to make it look like far-left radical liberal minority and illegal alien-loving Dems are singlehandedly (or at least mostly) responsible for it.
Two, attack Obama as an America-hating angry black militant radical liberal Moooslim by associating him with people like Ayers, Wright and Farakhan.
That's IT. Republicans aren't "deep" thinkers. They come up with one or two master strategies, and then beat them to death. Their political "brilliance" has less to do with actual brilliance, and more to do with fierce, psychotic-like tenacity, and the absence of any shame whatsoever.
Neither attack line will work. The majority of Americans see them as the useless pieces of shit that they clearly are, and will dispense with them accordingly. It's won't be pretty at the ballot box. The modern GOP is, effectively, dead, and the conservative movement in tatters.
