So, Are You Saying That He's a Liberal?

by: Colorado Pols

Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 13:19:56 PM MST

Since Republican Bob Schaffer doesn't want to talk about, well, anything, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has been busy attacking Rep. Mark Udall in advance of the 2008 Senate race.

Their latest attack is probably not going to be terribly effective, but it may set a record for the most times that one word was used in a press release. They managed to use the word "liberal" eight times in four paragraphs, which is impressive in itself, and they even used a word - "Liberalist" - the definition of which doesn't fit exactly what they probably meant it to mean ("a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties").

Republicans seem convinced that calling Udall a "Boulder Liberal" is going to be their ticket to victory. I don't think that phrase is quite the magic bullet that they think it to be, but even so, when you go to lengths like this, it all just appears very silly.