Taylor Campaign Surfing the Blogs

While the Taylor Campaign surfs the net, Cox is gathering momentum. As incredible as it is to me that the Taylor Campaign spends time camping out on the blogs, (have they nothing else to do?), today we see a re-emergence of their alliance with Georgia Republicans in the blog-sphere.

Just before 1pm, the Taylor Campaign sent out an e-mail titled, "Taylor for Georgia Campaign Update." (The sub-title should've been: Desperate:Taylor Campaign Scrapes the Bottom of the Barrel.) The short e-mail goes on to direct voters to go to view a patched together video that appeared on the Internet yesterday, first on You Tube at 7:26 am, then on Peach Pundit at 12:05 pm, then on Georgia Politics Unfiltered at 12:42 pm. Interesting track from anonymity to a Republican Blog to a Taylor-supporting blog, to a Taylor campaign e-mail. Probably just a coincidence, don't you think? Well, maybe, except that Dent previously admitted, rather proudly I thought, that campaign staffers created a video parity of Cox that was then provided to Peach Pundit. These guys are positively chummy.

I can understand why Taylor would rather have voters focus on Internet mischief than the real issues in this campaign, but I think that he underestimates the ability of Georgians to know BS when they smell it.

Mark Taylor wants one set of rules for the Big Guys, and a different set of rules for everybody else. First, Taylor calls for a debate on the issues, yet he ducks opportunities to debate. Then, after Cathy pushes back, he cries uncle and asks for a suspension of the mud wrestling, yet today he sends out a campaign e-mail that tosses mud by the bucket. It's tough, but I'm beginning to understand. Taylor doesn't want the negative campaigning to stop. He just wants Cathy to stop holding him accountable. What hypocrisy.

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