Back in June, my blog "Barry's Baby" outlined briefly the disgust to which Americans can expect to be treated as the dirtiest political campaign in American history gets under way. It's happening as we blog.
My prediction noted, in part, that the Republicans would use the tactics taught them by the late, but unlamented Lee Atwater: they would attack the president's strengths, not his weaknesses. Indeed, those tactics worked beautifully on John Kerry who was and is a war hero, but was successfully branded as a phony by Karl Rove, George Bush's great "architect" of victory.
Mr. Rove is at it again, as he attempts through a superpac (Crossroads GPS) to paint Elizabeth Warren, the consumer advocate who is going to unseat Scott Brown and become junior senator from Massachusetts, as the person who helped pay big Wall Street businessmen fat bonuses using TARP money! Nothing of course could be further from the truth. Prof Warren is anathema to such business leaders who are staunchly defended by Republicans in Congress.
In addition, this week President Obama, who has been widely praised for his handling of foreign affairs, came under attack from Mitt Romney and other Republicans for favoring terrorists rather than the people of Israel! I'm doubling down on my bet that this is going to be the most revolting political campaign of modern times. Donald Trump is still casting doubt on the president's citizenship and it is only a matter of time before he and Atwater's other heirs claim Barry has an illegitimate child somewhere, or offer some similar calumny.
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