Earlier tonight, I linked in the comments of an Election Central post to a good friend's blog post about "The October Surprise". His theory was that the Bushies are provoking a North Korea nuke test so they could scare the voters.

Damn. That pseudonymous blogger who shares a real name with me is pretty sharp sometimes.

But this is not 2002 or 2004. This should absolutely expose the weaknesses of the GOP rather than help them. It is not hard to figure out how to do this.

I left these points on that comment thread:

Talking points for Dem operatives in the morning:

1) It was Bush who "let the genie out of the bottle" with his assinine policies starting with his repudiation of Colin Powell's desire to continue Clinton-era UN containment policies with NK in 2001.

2) Bush has weakened our military to the point where our only response will be a paper-tiger or war.

3) WE CANNOT TRUST THE INCOMPETENT BUSHIES AND GOP RUBBERSTAMP CONGRESS TO FIX THIS MESS! THEY WILL MAKE IT WORSE.

4) Vote for Dems or die! (If the GOP could make it work in '02 and '04, why not the Dems. Karma is a bitch!)

Karl's karma is about to bite him in the arse.