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It's amazing this joker would run this opinion piece today. I can imagine something similar two weeks ago, but not today.

This piece is just so stupid. It's completely, stridently, arrogantly left-wing... yet it's completely out of step with the Kerry talking points.

Whining Republicans Out Fund-Raised By 527 Orgs

So now it's Republicans who are afraid of noble 527 organizations? Bush only attacked 527 organizations as a whole because he was desperate to find a decent way to distance himself from the Swift Vets without conceding any ground to Kerry. Attacking all 527s at the same time was neat way for Bush to cover his backside politically--and nothing more. Bush is not afraid of MoveOn (or if he is, he isn't showing it!). Kerry, on the other hand, is taking drastic action against the Swift Vets.

their surrogate media whores in the networks to do when they played, hundreds of times, the footage of Howard Dean, which we now know was bogus, with a false sound track.

The sound track was not "bogus," it was recorded by the standard technique, which is to filter out background noise. It made Dean's scream sound stranger than it sounded to the crowd who was there. But there was no fraud going on. ho-hum. nothing to see here, nothing to scream about.

And uh, if the networks are full of right-wing media whores, why haven't the swift vets gotten better treatment in the mainstream media like CNN, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, etc.?

For years, these sleazyoid right wingers have used thirty party organizations to attack from a distance. But now, the democrats, the left and progressives have outsmarted these whining, dirty-trickster liars. More money has been raised on the left than on the right.

Raising money is "clever?" If Republicans had more money, he'd be whining about that as proof the GOP is controlled by sinister, shadowy, ultra-rich figures (like George Soros).

So all of a sudden, the right wing is whining an calling legal 527 PACs that run ads "Shadowy organizations." Well geez, these lower than whale [poop] right wing liars invented the third party sponsored attack ads.

(an expletive was removed for your protection). This brings up an interesting question: is whale poop low, or does it float to the surface of the ocean? Actually, third-party smears have been around for a long time. Probably since before "America" was a political entity.

Hell, Bush won the primary by allowing the same people funding and putting together the weasel liar swift boat attack ads to create ads attacking John McCain.

The same people? The same people? How do you figure? I don't see Joe Farah connected to the Swift Vets. I don't see any connection between any of the Swift Vets (who actually served on Swift Boats or in the chain of command, don't ya know) and the people who trash-talked McCain. I'm just trying to figure out where they get this "same people" garbage, because the Swift Vets organization is swift vets only--so unless swift vets were part of the campaign against McCain, they can't be the same people.

But I want to talk about the way toxic right wingers attempt to label, calssify, profile democrats as crazy, angry, upset, unstable, "wild-eyed" or manic.
You see it again and again.
There may even be a smidgeon of truth to it.

Really? I know a lot of moderate Democrats, and they aren't crazy. But the radical leftists in this guy's circle are probably as crazy as he is (he probably has to go online to find people as nuts as he is in order to comfortably talk about politics)

But I see it from a different perspective. A major percentage of right wingers are repressed, control freaks. They not only want to be tight-assed, they want to control everyone else’s sphincters too.

Right. Republicans are assaholics. That's the most logical explanation. Moving right along.

The strange thing is that Bush and his people have been working fear for years-- to sell guns and resistance to gun control.

Yes. We are control freaks who want people to have guns. That makes a lot of sense.

to sell the fear of terrorism...

These people don't take terrorism seriously. It's only notable to them as something that us stupid people "fear" irrationally. I think being afraid of another attack is completely rational, given 9/11. I don't think we should quarantine 9/11 from politics. I think our political choices for the next few years, if not decades, will revolve around 9/11 (and subsequent attacks, if any, let's hope not).

Recently, an Irish reporter didn’t let up on him when he tried to evade her serious questions with weak banter. He was outraged and complained about her. Talk about fragile.

She interrupted the sitting President of the United States of America--who was generous enough to give her an interview in the first place--multiple times. And the President complained about this. Obviously, this is a sign of weak character (as compared to JFKerry, who isn't even talking to the media right now because he's so afraid of Swift Vet questions!)

A few days later, word in washington was that he was taking antidepressants and maybe tranquilizers.

So after pouting about how mean ol' Republicans taunt Democrats by calling them crazies, he fires a bunch of unsubstantiated gossip garbage at Bush, to question his sanity. It's hardly even believable gossip, either. Bush on anti-depressants? Sedatives? If Bush was feeling really blue I could imagine the man going on a multiple-day exercise binge... but that's about it. He's got a handle on his negative emotions.

One presidential spokeswoman, Nicole Devenish, another blonde liar (Anne Coulter is one of many iconic vapid, lying, whorish blonde republican spokeswomen,) ...

Because Ann Coulter is attractive, she's automatically a "whore?" That logic only works if you're a date-rapist or a bin Laden-style fundamentalist.

... of the Bush/Cheney campaign, says that the Bush campaign is not even sure that the swift boat vets ad will help the Bush campaign. This, vapidly idiotic remark, of course is aimed at the handful of Bush-morons who have not yet learned that Fox is the official, approved Bush station. EvenLou Dobbs smirks and tells her he doesn’t think so.

So the author agrees that the Swift Vet's charges will be harmful to Kerry? I'm glad to hear it! Maybe that's why he's freaking out and writing such a crazy article.

But the talking heads for Bush aren’t trying to convince the anchors or the left. They’re working on the vulnerable independents, ...

This is the first time I've ever seen independents described as "vulnerable." They're usually described as being stronger than those of us who are hopelessly partisan. They're too vulnerable to pick a party and stick with it? That makes no sense.

... perhaps the ones who are themselves uncomfortable expressing emotion, perhaps those who don’t know the difference between hearty, energetic enthusiasm and manic insanity, between reasonable anger and intemperate childish impatience will support Bush.

So not only are top Republicans crazy, gutless cowards, but Republicans in general are fearful, lying morons and independs who lean Republican have emotional issues and can't tell the difference between a range of emotions. And his main complaint is that Republicans bring up mental health smears against Democrats.

But more and more, all the machinations of the republican attack machine are being seen for what they are-- cynical, dishonest, expecting the least and worst from Americans.... But things are going to change.

The author doesn't seem to be expecting the most and best from Americans... he seems to be slamming us as emotionally stunted, mentally deficient creeps (at least, those of us who will be voting to re-elect Dubya).

To sum up: the author is mad that Republicans have this nasty habit of alleging mental deficencies on the part of Democratic politicos. And he thinks this is because Republicans are all crazy or stupid in some way or another. And the mainstream media is right-wing despite their atrocious treatment of the SBVfT. And Republicans are all a bunch of liars, which he proves with a bunch of half-facts. And the "same people" who attacked McCain are attacking Kerry, with no explanation of what this means (the author probably doesn't have a clue, he just lifted it from Atrios or one of them sites)

And that is a "fisking."