Al Franken's been fending off Republican dirty tricks in his election---and in this response the DSCC knocks it out of the park. Here's a fresh new approach to the same old tactics. Via Balloon Juice because as John Cole says: "Sarcasm works."

by Damozel | According to WaPo and other sources, the McCain campaign---which has got nothing else---plans to resort to ever darker and nastier measures to make Obama look bad (cf. Jane Smiley at HuffPost ).

Maybe the Obama campaign should consider the "point and laugh" response? Or is being flip too unpresidential? Hmmm. Anyway, the ad is awesome.

Meanwhile, John Cole reflects on the politics of desperation embodied in these attacks. "Flop sweat smells like fear." The outcome? The very moderates who voted for him in the primaries over Giuliani and Romney will realize every more clearly he ain't what he used to be, if he ever was.

And....

McCain will continue to trash his brand as a straight-talking bi-partisan maverick, the media will be repulsed, and it really is too little too late. I really am surprised that they thought they could run a substance free biography based campaign during a two-front war and an economic crisis, but by now I should never be surprised by Republican stupidity. (John Cole; emphasis added)

Yeah, at this point, people aren't going to care that much who Obama knows in Chicago if they think he can do a better job than McCranky and Screechy getting us out of the mess willed on us by McCain's party---or even mitigating the damage.

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