Self-described "antidote to right-wing talk" Taylor Marsh has long been a vociferous pro-Clinton voice on the Internet, devoting article after article to smears and attacks directed at Barack Obama. Her motivations have always been more than a little bit suspect and serious enough to make you question what it even means to be a liberal if you're willing to go to these lengths in attacking a fellow Democrat.
Today, she crossed a line, from ultra-partisan candidate blogger to a genuine hate machine simply trying to destroy Obama regardless of the damage it would do to the Democratic party.
Today Marsh posted a detailed assault on Obama drawing on an unfortunate Ben Smith article detailing Obama's relationship with former Weather Underground member William Ayers.
I held out from writing about the Obama - Ayers connection in the hope that someone would finally go on the record to advance the story in a serious way. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen at this point. I simply could not get Alice Palmer or others in Illinois on the record, try as I might through many angles. Peter Hitchens was the first to do a more recent article on the Ayers and Obama connection. No doubt he won't be the last, because the Republicans are going to love this angle if Obama gets to the general election. Larry Johnson has also sent a warning shot on Obama's connection to radical domestic terrorist William Ayers, though no one is listening.
Marsh concern trolls Obama, labeling Ayers as Obama's Willie Horton and suggesting the RNC will destroy him with the information. She then proceeds to gleefully paint him as a terrorist sympathizer and write the script for a slanderous attack on Obama.
Keep in mind, all of this stems from a casual meeting with Ayers in 1995 when Obama was introduced to Ayers by Alice Palmer. Here in Chicago, Ayers background is known and, while certainly not condoned, he is looked at as a reasonably normal person with a shady distant past.
By writing this piece and attempting to swift boat Obama by not-so-cleverly implying he can be swift boated this way Marsh has finally, and irrefutably, proven herself as no better than the worst of the Republican Party.
The question now, is what will she and her anti-Obama hate cult do when he takes the nomination? What reason should any of us have to forgive and forget this mercenary sleaze?