As has been noted all over the internets and news media, the Republican Party has finally settled on a mid-term campaign strategy: demonize the Democrats. Liberals, Progressives, poor, middle class, Muslims and all dark people, as well as most non-country-club-women (commonly known as not “Stepford Wives.) The term they’ve settled upon is “fascist.”

We saw the small-market strategy test earlier this year (“Islamofascists”) but so many top-tier Republican politicians and operatives suffer from a tongue-tied defect that it was decided to go with the slightly more ponderous “Islamic Fascists” term. (Snickering commentary that the tongue-tied problem is caused by overdoses of booze and drugs have been indignantly denied by those politicians and operatives still able to stand up and speak after 7 PM.)

We take pride in the fact that we started all this, calling the crime-ridden Republican Party the “Fascist Party” well over two years ago as a commenter on Jo Fish’s blog, Democratic Veteran.

Now that the criminals are trying to tar all those they hate and fear with this term it’s about time to roll out part two of our counter-attack campaign.

Today we officially announce the opening of the “WPS” attack. That’s not a reference to MicroShaft’s “Works”, the third-rate word processor they package with every boat anchor they sell. WPS stands for Winger Projection Syndrome, a condition that occurs when liars and criminals realize one of their own basic moral, ethical or psychological shortcomings and in a burst of self-loathing try to dishonestly paint the “evil demon” of the day with the same failing in an attempt to lessen their psychic guilt.

We’d like to take credit for coining the term but it actually originates somewhere deep in the bowels of the Mighty Corrente Building where it is officially known as the “Lexicon of Liberal Invective.”

It’s uncertain just who started the ball rolling on this handy glossary, but there are some pearls of great wisdom. One of our personal favorites is ”DCOW” which stands for Don’t Click on Wingers. When you click on a wingnut website you just add to the fool’s pagecount, and that, my friends, only encourages them. One example of this is our determined refusal to ever provide a link to a Washington Post story. Fred Hiatt, the Editorial page Editor, has demeaned that once great newspaper and dragged it into the gutter in an attempt to replace the Washington Times as the official house newspaper of the Fascist Party. This was a deliberate, conscious effort on his part. Once Fred Hiatt has resigned in disgrace, we’ll start linking to that paper’s articles again, unless he’s replaced by an even more mendacious enabler of the Fascist Party.

Speaking of enablers, another of our personal favorites is “Centrist” which is the term for any Republican Party enabler, or Republican mole. A prime example would be “Joe Lieberman is a centrist.”

It’s possible that Mr Rumsfeld is due to be replaced, and this was a grand gesture on his part to regain the approval of the nomenklatura to let him stay in his post. He has been loyal, after all, intentionally crippling the Army by shorting it the supplies and personnel it needed for the war Mr Bu$h and Mr Cheney needed. He’s refused to consider asking for a draft, knowing that such a move would be the final step that would cause sleeping Americans to wake up and demand political changes. And, anyway, chaos always provides the best opportunities for looting.

Say, what did happen to that unaccounted for $9 billion missing from the CPA in Iraq?