Actually, I don't think the right has played as dirty as
this. A Times article by Michael Luo this morning unveils a
new netroots enterprise, Accountable America, the unabashed purpose of which is
to terrify conservatives from giving campaign money to Republican causes and
Republican candidates. It's actually ingenuous.
You get a list of past Republican donors and send each of
them one, two, many e-mails with the explicit warning that contributing to
conservative campaigns may be dangerous to the donor's health. Or, as Luo
puts it, "The warning letter is intended as a first step, alerting
donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of
potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure an watchdog groups
digging through their lives." The letter will be in the mail next
week.
Perhaps the second move will be to the head of a horse in
the bed of the recipients or, better yet, put a bullet in their knee-caps. These people call themselves "liberal" and are called
"liberal" by others. But they are really fascists, using terror
as a means to close people's minds and checkbooks.
I'd like to learn what my candidate Barack Obama thinks of
his friends.