So, we had a prosecutor in Indiana suggesting that Scott Walker stage a false attempt on his life in order to gain political advantage.

He’s admitted it, and has now resigned as deputy prosecutor..

Josh Marshall of TPM asks whether this is is normal Republican procedure.

The answer is Yes.

Whether it’s Nixon’s Dirty Trixters, where his operative Roger Stone coined the term “Rat F%$#ing”, or Karl Rove planting bugs in his own office to create a mock scandal, or James O’Keefe’s deliberately dishonest videos, or this instance, this sort of behavior is a part of Republican DNA.

I used to hang out with Tony Rudy, now best known as a Jack Abramhoff associate, as an SGA Senate member at UMass, I was technically a “right wing” member of the Senate as a Mondale Democrat.^* and this was the sort of stuff that the College Republicans did all the time, and when they got together in regional and national meetings, they talked about it.

With me, a Democrat, people like Greg Rothman, Rudy’s partner in crime in the student senate, bragged about such things.  They reveled in and bragged about their willingness to ratf%$# their opponents.

^*The left wing was the “US out of North America” crowd.