Didn't you get the memo? Godwin's law has been amendment to replace "Nazi/Hitler" with "Al-Qaeda/Osama bin Ladin/ 9-11".

Thinking that some dumbfucks new book on negative politics being a good thing suggests that getting it out there and pulling it is better than not getting it out there at all.

By the way, Yglesias, you are a baby killer.

Here's teh douchebag now:

David Mark, the former editor of Campaigns and Elections magazine. He's the author of "Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning”

Sez swiftboating was good for the public.

Say yglesias, I hear you sell out Jews and have an illicit love black baby fathered by a gay latino. I am not sure how I feel about that, how do you others feel about that?

Agreed. Exactly.

If it's a close race in the end, Granholm is going to need to get as many black votes as possible to win. If the GOP dirty tricks squad can fly under the radar and plant the seeds of doubt, change the ratio of the black vote from 91-9 to 85-15 and lower black turnout a bit, they will have succeeded.

It's only through publicizing this ridiculous ad and pointing out its obvious falsehoods and using it to rally blacks behind her in even greater numbers than before that Granholm can turn that to her advantage, and we will see if she succeeds in doing so.

The GOP is the party of Lincoln, who freed the slaves. Why are blacks still voting for the pro-slavery Democratic party?

These ads practically right themselves.

I think Granholm should run against Amway, founded by her billionaire opponent Dick DeVos' father of the same name, which is just a creepy cult/giant pyramid scheme anyway. And it was started by Hitler. Or its founders supported him. Or whatever.

"Rich DeVos was president of Amway when it was fined the largest sum a Canadian court ever levied in a criminal case. During the 70s, Amway was charged with defrauding the Canadian government of millions in tax revenues under an elaborate scheme. Amway attributed the issue to their unconventional business model, but nevertheless admitted guilty corporate criminal fraud, as part of deal that saved DeVos and his partner Jay Van Andel from imprisonment."

Good point,

I can't wait to see DeVos budget plan:

We sign up 5 small states as affliates who then sign up 5 states each...

Really when you come down to it is essentially the same as Tony Soprano's business model.

Adolph Mongo has been bashing Granholm pretty hard in the local media for awhile. It can be reasonably assumed that he's on the Devos payroll at this point.

The Republicans are "scurrying away" from this one? What a joke - this is textbook "swift-boating", Adolph Mongo style.

I would also point out that the crudeness of the ad, as noted above by BP32, is by design, making it easier for the Devos people to distance themselves from the nutty negroes publishing the Chronicle.