Reply #59: Looks like the DSCC shot itself in the foot. How dumb can they be?

[beachmom]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0211/DSCC_attacks_Brown_on_abuse_revelation.html

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is circulating a number of clips to reporters suggesting that Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) revelations of sexual abuse as a child is either a political stunt or a hypocritical move ...

This commentary from Nate Silver on Twitter:

Democrats seem inclined to follow Coakley's lead by making every mistake possible when running against Scott Brown.

I would say Brown will now be re-elected in '12. I mean, it's one thing to speculate privately, but to openly e-mail this stuff to journalists is pretty brain dead.

And people shouldn't say this is some Fox News smear tactic. Ben Smith is not a propagandist for the Right.

Edit: If this is NOT true, there better be a definitive denial from the DSCC that shows absolutely that they didn't do this.