Digby: Democrats Are Wimps, Republicans Are Crooks

Those two memes are the fundamental negative images people have held of the two parties for the last quarter century. The Abramoff scandal offers the Democrats an opportunity to change their negative meme and reinforce the GOP's by swinging hard against this corrupt political machine.

Unfortubately it seems they are going to change it by turning it into "Democrats are wimps AND crooks, Republicans are just crooks."