I wonder just how many of these stories will quietly disappear over the next few days:

Here’s how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.

Note the past tense. And I’m not kidding.

And shoot me for saying this, but it won’t be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they’ll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.

The real test will be how many right-wing sites start spouting this "stolen election" drivel. I'd like to think we're the party of rational, carefully-considered strategists who will take this as a message about the need to change, and act accordingly.

In cases like this, prevarication is always a positive.