RNC: Fear trumps integrity

By GottaLaff

Via Ambinder, an e-mail from one of his readers:

Anyway, we got the Ayers robocall on our voicemail in Colorado yesterday. I saved it for my wife. She was aghast (we moved from Chicago since the previous election). I was more bemused than anything.

My question: Do these things work? I would suspect that they rile up the opposition supporters as much as anything, especially in an information-saturated environment like the current one.

(And as purely anecdotal evidence to convince you to move Colorado to lean Obama, my bus ride home takes me from an up-and-coming trendy part of Denver, through several very wealthy neighborhoods, to a more middle class suburb-in-a-city neighborhood on the south edge of the city. As of yesterday, the sign count was 17 Obama houses and 3 McCain houses.)

And Ambinder responds:

Put it this way: I know some RNC staff members who aren't proud that their committee is being associated with calls, but fear has prevailed upon their bosses.

They're scared, they're cowardly, and they're unscrupulous. And they've made their choice. Now it's time for America to make theirs. I'm more and more hopeful that they'll make the right one.