Posted by Jed Lewison on Sat Aug 30, 2008 at 12:28 PM Pacific

RNC Aides Pushes Limbaugh's 'Baby Killer' Attack

So yesterday Rush Limbaugh yesterday suggested that Barack Obama would have wanted to kill Sarah Palin's newborn infant after it had been born. Limbaugh's absurd suggestion came during this skit in which he imagines that Barack Obama and Sarah Palin have just met for the first time and are asking each other questions.

Next question, Obama to Sarah Palin: When you found out your baby would be born with Down syndrome, did you consider killing it before or after the due date? You mean you had the baby? You really had the baby?

Normally, Limbaugh is on my permanent ignore list, but this one's relevant because the RNC thought it would be a great line of attack against Barack Obama.

In an e-mail intended for a fellow staffer, but inadvertantly sent to the media, RNC Communications Director Danny Diaz suggested the GOP put the clip up on YouTube in an effort to smear Obama.

The RNC says that it apologizes, but it has done nothing to reprimand or penalize Diaz for his ridiculous attack. And that tells you pretty much all you need to know about the smear merchant operation that Karl Rove and Steve Schmidt have built for John McCain at the RNC.

They are so crazy that they literally are willing to manufacture fake lines of attack to suggest that Barack Obama wants to kill babies. I wonder if they realize that they have become caricatures of themselves?