MCCAIN TRUE COLORS WATCH UPDATE. Ari Berman at The Nation reminded us on Friday that there's more to Terry Nelson, the campaign hatchet man whom John McCain has hired, than the racist tv "bimbo" ad attacking Harold Ford that Nelson created this year. He has also engaged in anti-democratic trickery. An unindicted co-conspirator in Tom DeLay's scheme to raise illegal corporate cash for Texas state legislature candidates, and the supervisor of the staffer who purposely jammed Democratic Party phones in New Hampshire in 2002, Nelson is an all-around class act. It's ironic that McCain, who made his name by supposedly attempting to restore American faith in democracy through his campaign finance laws and "straight talk," has decided that merely selling his positions on issues to the nastiest elements of the GOP's base isn't enough. Apparently he's going to engage in their underhanded tactics as well.
--Ben Adler
