They ARE getting desperate. Witness this Cal Thomas op-ed:

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Fri Aug-11-06 08:53 AM
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They ARE getting desperate. Witness this Cal Thomas op-ed:

It was in my paper (Charlotte Observer) earlier this week and I had to restrain myself from hurling violently when I read it.

But now, after this latest "non-incident incident", and the attendent fear-mongering, I think I understand: The neocons are SO DESPERATE to associate Democrats with terrorism that it is LAUGHABLE.

The article, entitled "Taliban Democrats" (Yes you read that correctly).

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2006/08/10/taliban_democrats

The narrow primary defeat of veteran senator Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary is more than a loss for one man. It is a loss for his party and for the country. It completes the capture of the Democratic Party by its Taliban wing.

They used to be "San Francisco Democrats," a phrase coined by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick to describe the party's 1984 convention. But they have now morphed into Taliban Democrats because they are willing to "kill" one of their own, if he does not conform to the narrow and rigid agenda of the party's kook fringe.

Lieberman's one "sin," in the eyes of the Taliban Democrats, was that he supported the effort to defeat the insurgent-terrorists in Iraq. As a Jew, Lieberman is particularly sensitive to those who have targeted the Jewish people for extinction. But even if he weren't Jewish, he would still "get it," because he understands what's at stake in the region and has correctly concluded that the consequences of American failure in Iraq would be catastrophic.

His detractors, who brought him down in the primary with a one-issue, inexperienced and unqualified candidate, Ned Lamont, hate President Bush so much that their judgment has been distorted. Former Bill Clinton aide Lanny Davis, in a recent column for The Wall Street Journal titled "Liberal McCarthyism," printed a sample of the incendiary rhetoric directed toward Lieberman. There is thinly-veiled anti-Semitism ("As everybody knows, Jews ONLY care about the welfare of other Jews" posted on Daily Kos); irrationality ("Joe Lieberman is a racist and a religious bigot." Daily Kos) and personal attack ("Lieberman cannot escape the religious bond he represents. Hell, his wife's name is Haggadah or Muffeletta or Diaspora or something you eat at Passover." Posted on the Huffington Post blog)....

Now this is the height of hilarity: Thomas is reduced to quoting message board comments as if it's the mainstream thinking of the blogosphere. Complete, utter, ludicrous propaganda. Very funny, if it weren't that most of his readership will eat this shit up like pancakes.

Read the rest of the article if you can stomach it. He repeats the schoolyard phrase "taliban democrats" ad nauseum throughout. But here's the thing: This is the only argument they have left. Their policies are abject failures, so their only option is to link the country's enemies with their political enemies, and hope that the mass American public will buy it. We'll just see how that plays out, with support for the war plummeting daily.