The return of silly email attacks

To say that I think David Poythress's attacks on Roy Barnes are desperate would be an understatement, but I loved the comical pivot to label the former governor as a special interest opportunist today by posting Barnes's registry as a lobbyist with the state government, as well as the fact that he received funding from various organizations and lobbyists when he ran for re-election in 2002.

Of course, go to Barnes's web site and click on who he represented. He had two clients - his own law firm, which offered subsidized legal support to low-income folks, and the Northeast Atlanta Beltline organization. To label those two groups as some nefarious 'special interest' group out to undermine America is, well, just crazy.

Likewise, it's equally as absurd to think that an incumbent governor who was favored to win re-election handily wouldn't receive the support of various business groups and other advocacy organizations from all sorts of the ideological spectrum as they attempted to curry favor with him. That's not Barnes's fault, but rather the fault of a system where power is rewarded and the inability of Poythress to recognize that is, well, crazy.

Then again, consistently polling at five percent or less probably makes you do the wacky now and then.