I can't believe anyone in this day and age would be shocked that the Republicans were engaging in this sort of syping, just because they can. Why would anyone be that gullible, when all the evidence from recent history is to the contrary?

Does anyone not remember Thomas Eagleton? Now, that was despicable. And people thought Novak the Slime only was involved in Plamegate & Swiftboating!

Not so, he has a long history of this sort of thing.