We know that the Senate race in Maryland in 2006 is going to be ugly, with lots of mud slinging from the Republicans.
How do we know this? Because the putative Republican nominee, Michael Steele, would be hard pressed to win a battle of wits with a can of Spam.
The obvious answer is to go negative.
Considering that one of the leading Democratic hopefuls, Kweise M'Fume, already has "genital vagabond syndrome" (he slept with a subordinate while president of the NAACP), it's easy for the Republicans to sling mud.
With Cardin, the other leading Dem hopeful, you can be sure that they will be opening their Republican thesaurus to find synonyms for "Jew".
I say, let's fight fire with fire.
Michael Steel is a part of a corrupt administration (In truth, most gubernatorial administrations in Maryland are pretty corrupt), and SOMETHING has had to rubbed off on him beyond practicing law without a license (he did some legal work for a relative).
We should be able to find evidence of corruption, or at least willful blindness, and we can start slinging mud first.
So, who's up for mud wrestling?