Reply #17: If what Art Torres said yesterday is a harbinger of anything, he can win

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Everyone who has paid a utility bill for the past few years can be easily turned. The Republicans engineered energy deregulation and then we got deliberately--and illegally--screwed in a scandalous hosing. If that can be stuck on Junior, Wilson and others, there certainly FEELS like there's a chance.

Regardless, that's what they should do. They should show the most unflattering photos of Junior, Lay and Cheney--and boy, there are some ugly ones out there--and ram it down the administration's throat. Use the Saxby Chambliss ads as a model and force them onto the defensive.

This is no time for timidity, and it will work. The hell with my personal combativeness, I think a good old-fashioned demonization of greedy multi-millionaires screwing everyone in sight and covering it up will play. Unless you're wealthy, a big hit on your "fixed" housing costs sticks in the memory.

There's definitely no reason to fear Bashing Junior here; anyone who'll be offended by that will vote against Davis anyway.