Their blast-faxes are always SO freaking obvious. I'm not paying all that much attention to teevee, and even I am hearing the same parroted lines over and over again.

First, if it's not Rove himself, it's a classic Rove tactic: Find the places where your opponent is strong and you are weak, and make accusations. It leaves us with our jaws dropping at the audacity of it, but it's played for them in the past. (Swiftboaters are a classic example.)

The Chimp was "polarizing," and they pushed his popularity with a phony image because his policies were not popular with the majority. (Fake "ranch," anyone?) Polls always showed Democratic policy positions more popular than Republican ones, and now Obama has personal popularity, as well. So they claim he's more popular than his policies.

They also achieved some level of success claiming we were a "fringe element." Now that they are the "fringe element," they're going for something like a self-fulfilling prophecy -- if they say we're polarized, and everybody repeats we're polarized, maybe we'll get polarized. Poll numbers make the whole thing laughable.

So they've got to get even more McCarthy about the whole thing and claim we're evil socialists, radicals, dangerous! They, of course, took us to the brink of fascism (if not beyond it) and the state of the nation (and world) today shows who the dangerous radicals are.

It's hard to know whether to laugh and ignore the claims, hoping they won't get traction (risking that they might), or fight back, hoping to stop them from gaining traction (risking that it publicizes their claims).

I'm looking at Obama from the left, and "polarizing" is the last thing I see. He reaches out so far toward unity that I often disagree with him. But polarizing? Radical? Unpopular policies?!

Hey Pollys! Have some crackers, and shut your beaks.