Joseph Jackson, aka Blue Believer, says on the Alabama Democratic Party blog today that he's always wondered what real types of research takes place at the Alabama Policy Institute.

"From what I've been able to tell, they're just a bunch of Republican shills," he says. "Today, I got confirmation of my suspicion."

Gary Palmer has a piece in the Montgomery Advertiser, and it's Grade A hackery. For a second, I thought he was channeling Michelle Maulkin or Jonah Goldberg, but then I realized he's just a poor man's Ann Coulter.

In vain, he tries to link Democrats to Islamic radicals in hopes of confusing the issue at hand: whether the president and vice president of the United States misled to public and manipulated intelligence to justify the Iraq war. I would provide excerpts to the piece, but I'm not sure I have high enough wading boots to give to our readers so they can get through all it.

The evidence regarding manipulated intelligence is overwhelming. Palmer and his ilk are simply trying to avoid the issue by attacking critics, rather than answering their charges. Alabama and America deserve better than his baseless and dangerous smear.

If you would like evidence that rebuts the administration talking points and shows a clear pattern of evidence, go to the ADP Blog and read the stories linked there.