Maggie's Farm

A good analysis. Jay Tea begins his Headless Snake post:

There's an old saying: "when you want to kill a snake, cut off its head." It's turning out that that doesn't exactly hold true in politics.

I'm finding the current political struggles going on tremendously entertaining. The Democrats have managed to pretty much seize power at the federal level, and have shown very little clue on how to handle the role reversal. It's been a very, very long time since they haven't been the minority in at least one respect, and they've forgotten how to govern.

Their old model simply doesn't work. The old way was to find the leadership of the opposition and focus their attacks on him or them, making them the embodiment of what they opposed, and then tearing that down by proxy.

That can't work now, because there is a schism in their opponents -- and there is no clearly defined leadership.

Read the whole thing. The Repubs are wise to keep their heads low for a while, at least as long as the Left seems to be in process of destroying the Dem party.

So who does the Left have to attack in a target-poor environment? Just the talking heads - the "call 'em like they see 'em" folks. Thus the recent attempted muggings of non-politicians like Rush, Glenn Beck, FOX, Sean, a blogger like Michelle Malkin - and now even Liz Cheney. Plus ex-pols who aren't running for office, like Palin.

Woops. Forgot to mention Michael Steele's obvious racism. An Uncle Tom, ya know?

I bet they wish they had somebody like Newt to smear again.

Addendum - re smearing and sliming

From Legal Insurrection:

The point of this tactic is to repeat accusations frequently enough that fiction and reality merge in the public consciousness. And on the internet, all you have to do is repeatedly put someone's name in close proximity to the inflammatory words, so that the search engines associate the name and the accusation.

And it works.

Yes it does. Just ask Chris Christie. If you haven't heard, he has a fat ass.