The Republican Strategery

Dick Polman is listed in the Inquirer as the resident Political Analyst, that should be changed to "Democratic Hack". Today, his piece on the front page examines the suppososed Republican plans to demonize the donks as "scary" and labels it a risky scheme:

Be very afraid.

That's the gist of the pitch that top Republicans are making these days to their dissatisfied followers, six months before the congressional elections. With their leader in the White House tanking in the polls - President Bush's approval rating fell to 29 percent in a Harris survey released Friday - and with approval of the GOP Congress now registering at 18 percent, the Republicans are currently short on affirmatives for their own side.

So they're seeking to motivate their base by focusing on fear of the opposition - fear of a Democratic Congress, thirsting for revenge against Bush and peppering his people with subpoenas; fear of a Democratic House leader, Nancy Pelosi, who appears in a Republican e-mail looking like a zombie from Night of the Living Dead; fear of House Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers, the chairman-in-waiting, whose Web site cites "grounds for possible impeachment."

I don't even think the GOP had to do anything to Pelosi's picture to make her look like a zombie. Anyway, I guess Polman forgot that Pelosi used the word "impeachment" and quickly backed off when the base noticed that it would attract Republicans to the polls.

Read the entire piece. Polman is so tedious week in and week out that I've grown tired of rebutting him every Sunday morning.