Swift Boat veterans against Roberts

Billmon's articulating more or less what I was trying to get at last night, only he's a much better writer and I was sort of inebriated:

"Blasting Roberts as a corporate lawyer is an excellent smear tactic. People hate lawyers. They dislike and mistrust big corporations. It also conveniently happens to be true -- just as it was literally true that John Kerry is an upper crust Bostonian married to a woman with a fuckload of dough. Sliming Roberts as a corporate lawyer is probably more effective than attacking him for his views on abortion or other social issues, since a.) the paper trail is better and b.) it can be used as a wedge to separate him from some of his socially conservative but downwardly mobile supporters."

Clearly the environment is a way more important issue for myself than it is for the voting public in general these days, and I fully accept that. Also clearly, the President's a Republican and Congress is in Republican hands, so their nominee will easily be sent to the SCOTUS. Thirdly clearly, abortion is an important issue. In order to win elections, however, Democrats should hammer home some points that are very obvious by this nomination: while the nation has been distracted by so-called moral issues, many laws have been written and many judges appointed that are immoral when it comes to the relationship between citizen and corporation. Here's just one more example.