I did my own nosying around DU. Under a different title than before.
Anyhow, this is their big story:
(Washington, D.C., September 22, Special to MWO)
In what some political observers are calling the biggest campaign scandal since the days of Watergate, the Republican Party has been caught red-handed in a national, highly coordinated, hugely expensive campaign to smear Democrats and lie brazenly about the Republicans’ own record on a wide range of issues, above all Social Security, Medicare, the economy, and other domestic issues.
There is substantial evidence that the plot has been mounted in Washington, under the direct control of Karl Rove at the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives and Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) at the National Republican Congressional Committee. Millions of dollars in specially marked funds have been sent from Washington to Republicans across the length and breadth of the United States to help pay for the campaign.
Although the subterfuge tactics vary somewhat from state to state, and from district to district, the basic strategies behind the Republican efforts – and, often, the actual wording – are remarkably similar. Among the main themes are:
-- Lie about Republicans' previous explicit support for privatization of Social Security and proposed Medicare pharmaceutical benefits.
-- If challenged, claim that the plan they support is not privatization, and that the Democrats are distorting the record.
-- Alternatively, blast individual Democrats as privatizers if they have supported plans like the USA Accounts program – plans that actually do not involve diversion of Social Security funds or Medicare benefits into the private equity markets.
-- If that fails, jump on any votes for past raises in Social Security taxes, dating back as far as 1983, and package them as efforts by the Democrats to "raid" Social Security – even though the only "raids" have been those by the White House to pay for its tax cut for the rich, and even though those hikes have received broad bipartisan support, including support from Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan.
-- Attack Democrats who may have voted against the first proposal for the 1991 Gulf resolution as cowardly abettors of Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
-- Attack Democrats who oppose the death penalty as coddlers of terrorists.
To drive these points and others home, the Rove-Davis coordinated effort has resorted to a number of "dirty tricks" and maneuvers reminiscent of the Nixon campaigns, as well as the campaigns undertaken by Rove’s mentor, Lee Atwater.
-- Hiring an elderly actress and having her pose as a "concerned citizen" on television who blames the Democrats for threatening Social Security
-- Posing local Republican officials unknown to the general public – women best of all – as just everyday citizens, and have them spout the Republicans’ lies.
-- Hire black actors and have them present a weird and utterly phony case that Social Security, as it currently exists, is an example of "reverse reparations" that African-Americans pay to whites, and saying that only the Republicans will remedy the situation.
(More)
http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/
Seems a lot of Dems can't support KKT for a variety of issues, and the only thing I see them attacking Erlich on is that he's a "rich" guy. Yeah... a guy from a lower-middle class upbringing who goes to college on scholarships and does good is blasted for being wealthy. This compared to someone who's a Kennedy. 
