I came across this strategy memo by Mark Penn, and realized that he wasn’t a complete idiot, he anylized the republican lizard brains quite well. ( BTW I did not mean to insult lizards with that last remark.
Penn Strategy Memo, March 19, 2007: More than anything else, this memo captures the full essence of Mark Penn’s campaign strategy–its brilliance and its breathtaking attacks. Penn identified with impressive specificity the very coalition of women and blue-collar workers that Clinton ended up winning a year later. But he also called Obama “unelectable except perhaps against Attila the Hun,” and wrote, “I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.” Penn proposed targeting Obama’s “lack of American roots.”