What will be the "Swift Boat" tactic for this year?

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In my opinion, they have nothing to run on. They have an unpopular war, an unpopular incumbent of the same party, an economy on the skids, people hurting, a presidential nominee who is as exciting as Malt-O-Meal, a VP nominee with so much baggage she should have the baggage terminal named after her, and their whole convention looks like a shriner's funeral on quaaludes. They can only win by cheating, which has worked wonders for them in the past. So what will it be, besides the obvious voting systems and voter harrassment - what will be the "Willie Horton" or "Swift Boat Veterans" stratagem?

[GrizzlyMan]

1. There will be no swift boating

I hated the fact that all this crap about Obama was coming out during the primaries. I'm guessing so does Rick Davis and the rest of the racists at McCain's campaign were even more pissed off because each time something came out, they had to cross it off their list.

[VolcanoJen]

3. Yep.

Shock-n-Awe is usually a one-off. Clinton did Obama a favor by blowing the eventual Republican wad quite early.

Still, expect a lot of Rezko-Ayers-Michelle-Isn't-Sufficiently-American-GOD DAAAAAAAAAAAAM AMERICA chatter regardless.

Here in Ohio there's a TV ad I've seen over and over the last few days; it's a counter-attack to the Ayers ad, and its chief thrust is "With all of our problems today, why does John McCain want to talk about the 1960's?"

I think its enormously effective.

[niceypoo]

2. World war III

It is their last hope...

[nevergiveup]

4. Reverend Wright will emerge

once again before the election. His fiery sermon will be played non-stop by the media. I know many folks leaning towards Obama who get all bent out of shape when they see this man. I promise you this is in Rove's bag of tricks.

[drm604]

5. "The American Issues Project"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3453778

Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign. Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial. It's the type of going-for-the-jugular approach to politics many Democrats complain that Kerry lacked and that Republicans exploit.

Obama's target is an ad by the conservative American Issues Project, a nonprofit group that questions Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground organization that took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.

The lone financier of the anti-Obama ad, Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, was also one of the main funders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who targeted Kerry. Simmons, a McCain fundraiser, contributed nearly $2.9 million to the American Issues Project, according to documents filed by the group with the Federal Election Commission.
Fox News and CNN have declined to air the anti-Obama ad. But by Monday afternoon, the ad had run about 150 times in local markets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan, according to Evan Tracey, head of TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group, an ad tracking firm.