Awaiting A Swift Boat Attack

With a McCain victory looking more and more like a long shot, what can we expect from the Republicans in the next four weeks? A swift boat style attack or two, of course. October is the perfect time for a totally unsubstantiated attack simply because the victim has a difficult time dispelling the myth completely before election day. My guess is Karl Rove and company have more than a few ideas of how to slander Senator Obama in the coming weeks.

The most likely theme of a swift boat attack on Obama will be to make claims which portray him to be as black and/or as liberal as possible. With states such as Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri seemingly in play, the old Karl Rove playbook would suggest that Obama needs to be shown to have associations with scary black people and that he favors the closure of all churches and believes in abortion even after birth (without "pre-conditions", of course). The fact that none of it is true doesn't matter, of course. The point is simply to distract enough white people away from disastrous Republican policies by planting the seed that Obama is a militant black man who shares Karl Marx's economic beliefs.

Democrats undoubtedly know it's coming and will probably still flail about when it actually happens. Personally, I'm holding my breath waiting for October to end.