And so it begins...

Everybody has been predicting that Karl Rove would pull out his bag of dirty tricks in the final approach to the election, and sure enough, the first bizarre smear attempt has surfaced already, a bit outside the main spotlight. It's beneath contempt, this kind of thing, but campaigns have to be on the look-out; diffuse it by anticipating it. eesh., it can be hard to think that warpedly.

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