I can certainly admire his technique; his ability to strategize… but I still think he’s a crook.

The next generation of Rove-clones is out in suburbia America launching and tweaking political attacks to win the coming elections. They’re like the little bugs in Matrix… hunting down the feeble and vulnerable candidates and removing them from the grid.

images of Osama bin Laden and Zacarias Moussaoui. Finally comes the real target of Howell’s attack: Harold Ford Jr., the Democrat locked in a close race for the Senate seat in Tennessee. Over an edgy hip-hop soundtrack, the ad castigates Ford for voting against border security and the Patriot Act. “No wonder Harold Ford has been rated the most liberal congressman from Tennessee,” the narrator intones. The ad ends with the word “liberal” pulsing on the screen as a shadowy figure walks down a long hallway.

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