[Timeout]

you may have a point about them seeing the vulnerable state of the DNC's media lapdogs and they are emboldened by it.

Makes me wonder if maybe someone's been showing old Lee Atwater footage at strategy sessions. Now THERE was a mongrel dog of a campaigner.!

[reformedliberal]

W himself learned politics under Lee. Quite a few of the BC04 campaign team learned the ropes under Atwater, including Peggy Noonan.

A few weeks ago, Maureen Dowd had a column in which she referenced Lee Atwater at least 5 times. Several other Dem apologists have hyphenated *Atwater-Rove* in the past month.

Lee was their nemesis, the unRepublican who was cool, hip, dangerous and deadly. Rove is not cool or hip, but he terrifies them all the same. Also, since May, at least, the campaign has shown that they know we, the base, respond positively to any slapdowns of the media and the left.