don't have nightmares

A piece from The Observer on the Republicans' tactics. It's a fun read, though it's fair to say it might be, um, slightly partisan: 

Under a succession of dark geniuses, the [Republican] party has perfected the black art of negative campaigning. It has created the most effective attack machine in the Western world, with the sole purpose of destroying opponents and winning elections... It has one purpose – to keep the White House in Republican hands at all costs and against the odds. 

Oooh - scary!

• posted by Claudia Jean

Comments

[Lyle]

Trust me, sweetheart, this IS scary.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

p.s. Good coverage during Marbury's hols, I must say!

[rellis]

They missed an obvious and important point about how Corsi's book became a best-seller. Conservative organizations and book clubs placed large orders specifically to pump it up to the best seller list. That makes it newsworthy, which gets Corsi air time on TV and radio. The whole thing was manufactured. If the book had been left to the normal market without that kind of help then it would have gone nowhere, but that was never the plan.