I basically agree with Steve M. that the secret tape recording of Mitch McConnell’s opposition research isn’t going to hurt him and may even help him. In fact, when I read the whole transcript, I found it so innocuous and unsurprising that I wondered whether McConnell played a dirty trick on himself and David Corn just so he could play the martyr. Politics can be uglier than it needs to be, but the job of an opposition researcher is to dig up dirt on potential opponents. They don’t decide what actually gets used. The presentation given to McDonnell was a nasty piece of work, but that’s just the nature of the beast.
More interesting is how McConnell goes about identifying the mole at the heart of his political operation.
