The new Dem meme: What Will Karl Do?

Paranoia runs deep

Into your heart it will creep

It starts when you're always afraid

Step outta line, the Man come and take you away

Remember the song from Buffalo Springfield (1967)?

This has to be the most paranoid Democrat party in memory as they see a “sure win” in November fade away due to internecine fighting for the nomination between two socialists. One is a money grubbing inveterate liar with an entitlement complex, part of a couple that have made the Presidency a profitable family business. The other is a smooth talking crook/racist/radical from the Chicago political machine who is the dictionary definition of an “empty suit.” Going at it hammer and tongs; and the deliciousness of it is that the Leftists are throwing mud at each other. We have not seen such vicious internecine fighting among Leftists since the Commies and the Nazis battled it out in the street of Germany and the 1930s.

And each side is invoking the most horrible boogie man they can imagine: Karl Rove, who they refer to as “Bush’s brain.”

In a previous post on a 60 Minutes smear of Karl Rove, I mentioned that

"Karl Rove" has begun to be a substitute for accusations of "Nazi" or "Fascist" in the lexicon of many on the Left. You can see it on screeds on blogs as Hillary Clinton is accused of "Karl Rove" tactics or of George Stephanopoulos of being an agent of “Karl Rove” during a Democrat debate.

So now we have the latest iteration of these cynical paranoid fantasies in an attack on Obama by the Hillary camp. Via Ed Morrissey at HOT AIR:

We could see this coming for months, and the results should be delicious. Huffington Post writer Tom Edsall reveals that a union has developed an extensive and detailed attack on Barack Obama’s connection with William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the former Weather Underground terrorists, while at the same time deriding it as “McCarthyism”. How do they square that circle? They wrap it into a cautionary message that asks, “What will Karl do?”

A high-ranking labor supporter of Hillary Clinton is distributing to union leaders and to Democratic strategists a document detailing the radical activities of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, two former members of the ’70s group the Weather Underground, who decades later, in Chicago, crossed paths with Barack Obama.
The document - a three-page emailed essay by Rick Sloan, communications director for the International Association of Machinists as Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) — takes both literary and political license to outline what Sloan believes would be the thrust of a hypothetical Republican campaign against Obama focusing on his tangential connection to Ayers and Dohrn.

The goal of the essay appears to be to discredit Obama as the prospective Democratic presidential nominee. …

Sloan contends that the purpose of his document is to outline what he conjectures will be the tactics of Republican operative Karl Rove, an informal adviser to John McCain’s campaign, if Obama is the nominee. The title of Sloan’s paper is: “What Is Rove Up To?”

Meanwhile, the real Karl Rove can sit on the sidelines while the Democrats diminish themselves at the speed of light in an orgy of hypocrisy. That’s what this really is — a way to campaign hard while blaming others for the damage it causes, as hypocritical an effort as one will ever see in politics.
All we can say is, “Rove, you magnificent bastard!” — and ask when we can get our WWKD wristbands and bumper stickers.

Is it paranoia on the part of Hillary's operatives or are they just feeding the paranoid fantasies of the gullible Leftists who are in charge of the Democrat nominating process? My guess is number 2, but I have not had so much fun in years.