I saw them on MTP today, and it's clear that Talent has only one strategy, straight from the Rove playbook: paint McKaskill as weak on the WOT. It's very clear they have nothing else to run on, that it's all attack. They are very clearly just trying to survive this election.

I wish she had more teeth (even tho I am reporting from Oregon). She needs to tie him to Bush directly and repeatedly. Talent kept hitting her for her support of habeas corpus. That's a huge opening. Since when are Americans against habeas corpus? This is a point that the Dems need to counter. THe Repubs are saying, if you support HC for terrorist, you might as well be a terrorist. While the Dem position needs to be that Bush has caved in to fear. He is so afraid of the terrorists, he's willing to sell down the river the very basis of American views of fairness and justice. And there is just no defending that.