John McCain’s latest hire of Trey Walker is just another in a long string of hiring top-tier Republican operatives with shady legal histories. Tracy Russo has some of the McCain staff’s low-lights.

The real question is, is McCain’s hiring policy based around deploying the same dubious and illegal tactics utilized by his employees on past campaigns? Will he be push polling in South Carolina with false insinuations about his opponents’ having illegitimate children? Will he run race-baiting ads in Tennessee? Will he jam phone lines in New Hampshire? Will his staff engage in sock puppetry in the comments section of blogs? Will he launder money?Will McCain send fake emails to his opponents email lists?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then McCain’s staffing choices make sense. His operatives have orchestrated all of these things in the past and the tactics are squarely in line with the greatest hits of the Rove/DeLay era Republican machine.

This is the new John McCain, just like the old George W. Bush.

(Media Matters has more on McCain’s recent hires and their backgrounds)

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Posted by Matt Browner Hamlin
Monday, January 8, 2007 at 7:00 pm

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