Is he also a pasty, overfed, juvenile, masochistic, hero worshiping closet homosexual too?

is a traitor who should be in jail.

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I also heard that John McCain is going to build a time machine and move everyone back to 2002 when these tactics worked. Oh no!

Hey Republicans, you couldn't hold your seat in Mississippi running ads against the scary black man and his kooky associates. What makes you think it's going to work anywhere?

If you had policies that more than 23% of the public supported maybe you could run on those, but you've got nothing but the same old same old. Pathetic.

and should be indicted for treason

Lori

In the words of our famous Moron-in-Chief:

"Bring it on!"

I don't care how many "unsavory" characters Obama is friends with. Hammer this message over and over into Americans' brains:

What have the Republicans done to this country in the last eight years?

Bring it on, indeed!

Douchebag of Liberty!

personally. Drag their personal lives and related scandals into the limelight for all to see. Turn this into a referendum on their personal credibility and just dirty them up any way possible. Best defense is a good offense.

...is that the Repubs are being so up-front about it. It would seem smarter to not trumpet in advance that you're going to use the tactics that most of America is waiting for and already sick of.

Apart from that, we know it'll be rough and ugly. Obama stands in contrast to all that and consistently demonstrates that he believes we're better than that. He may be wrong. But if finally abandoning the old divisive and polarizing strategies is ever going to happen it has to start somewhere, and this is as good a time as any.

Indeed, McCain has and will remain in the muck, using Republican xenophobia to keep them wetting their pants in fear of gays and dark-skinned people. Republicans have become such craven cowards, yet try to pass themselves off as tough guys. I've seen schoolyard bullies with more credibility than these feeble-willed, deluded idiots.

I despise the politics of personal destruction, but it will not do the democrats any good to ignore them. The stakes are too high to play nice. Another Republican term and the Supreme Court is lost for a generation or two.

Obama should stay clear of course, but there should plenty of well funded 527s this cycle who will politely agree to disagree with Obama when he says stop.

They should expose every hypocritical Republican for, in no particular order, marriage infidelity, closeted homosexuality, preference for paid sex partners, drug use, ties to lobbysists, ties to casinos, ties to arms manufacturers, etc.

Republicans have been able to velcro "Democrat" and "effete/unpatriotic" together. It makes no difference what the Democrat has done. War hero? Bullshit. He's effete and reads French and likes book learning; he must hate America.

The way to stand up to a bully is to punch him in the nose. You can do this two ways. The first is what Obama is doing: respond forcefully to every attack, call them naive, and repeat endlessly that the emperors have no clothes on.

The second way is for independent 527s to completely tarnish the word Republican so that it may never be associated with "respectable" again. Republican must mean "hypocrite". It must mean "liar". It must mean "elitist" (not in the sense of reading, you know, books, but in the let's funnel billions of dollars to our cronies). Conveniently and unlike the swiftboat attacks, it happens to be true.

There's room for lots of different 527s: some for high minded revelations of policy positions and some for releasing the pictures of Karl "Miss Piggy" Rove making out with anonymous men in gay bars in DC.

Is Novak finally fessing up to the fact that McCain has no "weapons" in this fight except to Swift-Boat Obama with pernicious guilt by association attacks?

I saw him on the Daily Show and he casually mentioned that Hamas had "endorsed" Obama. Actually, Stewart may have brought it up to challenge him, but McCain repeated it. The right is also collecting lots of money for 527's to make the nastier attacks - the ones that McCain dare not utter for fear of losing his carefully cultivated "he's got a bit of a temper, but he's basically a nice guy" reputation.

I would feel sorry for Obama, but he brought this on himself. If he had taken the time to build his reputation to the public instead of thrusting himself into the candidacy so quickly, he would be innoculated against these kinds of attacks. Audacity has its price.

I would feel sorry for Obama, but he brought this on himself. If he had taken the time to build his reputation to the public instead of thrusting himself into the candidacy so quickly, he would be innoculated against these kinds of attacks. Audacity has its price.

John Kerry built a reputation and got Swift Boated. Talk Radio consistently slimed Hillary during this campaign. How about Max Clelland?

It's gonna happen no matter what.

"closet?!"

"Indicating what lies ahead is the McCain campaign's plan to bring in Tim Griffin, a protege of Karl Rove, who is a leading practitioner of opposition research -- the digging up of derogatory information about political opponents. Although final arrangements have not been pinned down, Griffin would work at the Republican National Committee, as he did during Bush's 2004 reelection campaign."

You mean, former US ATTORNEY TIM GRIFFIN?

DOn't forget that the US Attorney in Little Rock was purged from the Justice Department by Rove and Alberto Gonzales, so Bush-Rove could seat Tim Griffin there as U.S. Attorney, with subpoena power over the Clintons' Arkansas records, in anticipation of a Clinton candidacy.

If you connect the dots, you get:

MCCAIN=GRIFFIN=ATTORNEY FIRINGS=ROVE=DON SELIGMAN IMPRISONED

This would make McCain an active participant in this criminal conspiracy to load the Justice Department with "Loyal Bushies" -- and use the DOJ to steal the 2008 election.