Are you a Republican political operative with experience in dirty tricks and campaign-related criminal conduct? It may be time to dust off your resume.
You may have noticed the article in Sunday’s Washington Post which explains that Republicans now believe that their only hope for avoiding electoral catastrophe in November is to put all their resources into hardball 
personal attacks against Democratic candidates around the country.
And who have they chosen to head up the effort?
According to the Post, that man is none other Terry Nelson.
And who is Terry Nelson?
Nelson has the unique distinction of being tied to two of the biggest cases of Republican campaign corruption in the Bush era. Nelson was implicated in the infamous New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal and he was an unindicted coconspirator in the political money-laundering case which ended Tom DeLay’s career.
If you’d like to do some of your own research at home, here’s the government’s witness list for the trial of arch-phone-jammer James Tobin. Nelson figures prominently on the list. (To the best of my knowledge, Nelson has steadfastly refused to answer questions regarding his role in the caper.) And here’s the indictment in the DeLay case where Nelson’s role in that case is explained at some length.
In any case, you get the idea.
Everything is on the line for these guys. So be prepared for literally anything over the next sixty days.
