Jim Webb's campaign guru, Dave Saunders (a.k.a. "Mudcat") is guest blogging at Time's "Swampland" blog. Here's his first entry, which borders on the trollish, but is nevertheless entertaining (some of the comments are quite funny). Snip:

So to those bloggers who believe in a straight-forward dialogue and exchange of ideas, God bless you and thank you. Together, you're coming up with a lot of good stuff, and frankly, much of it has been helpful to me. At the same time, those Democratic bloggers, who have appointed themselves as intellectually superior and believe the only way to win an argument is to shot the loudest with personal attacks, you can go to Hell. Intellectually superior? The truth is these people remind me of the guy who told so many people he had a horse that he finally went and bought a saddle. The "incivility" in their tones tell me they would be much more happy following "pro rasslin" than the political blogs.

Hmm. Not quite Gabby Hayes, but close enough for Time. Does make me wonder, though, whether he was paying any attention at all to the Virginia blogs during his client's Senate race.

Plenty of shouting and personal attacks there, Dave. But those were aimed at a Republican, so that made it okay, right?

Yer darn tootin' t'id.