The note of indignation the Josh Marshall has been sounding about these incitements - echoed and amplified in other posts and comments here - mystifies me--he is usually so pragmatic, and here we are dealing with an awful Real Politik of the kind we are (sadly) familiar. This is just Rove with the edges fraying. I would like Josh and the community to address ways to itimize how this rhetoric can be used against McCain and Co. How it can be used to sway swing voters. I know we hear that swing voters are turned off by negative advertising. But since the days of Lee Twatwater I always thought this was untrue, finally. Beyond outrage (what is new with these horrible anti-American zealots that have defined republicans for twenty years at least), what are the TACTICS! (Or the strategy, for that matter.)

Posted at October 7, 2008 12:55 PM in response to Incitement: McCain Fostering Climate of Violence

I am a huge fan of TPM. To see Robert Stone posting, and even commenting is an incredible testimony to the site's strength and relevance. Stone is one of the most powerful writers in this country--I mean that in literary terms, but he also engages with the world, politics and all, in a way that is rare among our best writers. Wow. Robert Stone!

Posted at June 29, 2008 12:19 AM in response to Elements of Hope

Really wish it were possible to know what Stayman thinks of all this.

Posted at April 15, 2008 10:09 PM in response to In 2000 Hearing, Schaffer Executed Abramoff Lobbying Strategy -- Again

Dear TPM--

Please continue to update us on the scum diaspora of the Justice Department. I want to keep tabs on the people I have enjoyed growing to hate and, less personally, who have done so much to undermine our system of government. The king of the hill is Schlozman. I wish someone would do a shlozwiki. But there are many others, and I want to knot devious awful things they are doing.

thank you.
t from nyc

Posted at March 15, 2008 4:30 PM in response to Spakovsky, out of Government, Still Touting Voter Fraud