Warm and Fuzzy Dingy Harry Plans to 'Vaporize' Senate Opponent

Considering how badly he's already trailing his prospective GOP opponents in head-to-head matchups in 2010, this seems like awfully brash talk from Dingy Harry.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is prepared to run a sharply negative campaign if that’s what it takes to win reelection next year, with a top adviser predicting that the Nevada Democrat will “vaporize” his Republican challengers with attack ads.

Trailing in the polls and under constant attack from the GOP, Reid’s campaign has just launched a warm-and-fuzzy million-dollar ad campaign to reintroduce the veteran senator to his constituents. But Reid’s team also wants to be the one that introduces lesser-known opponents to the electorate — and will be ready, when the time comes, to unleash a torrent of ads branding challengers as untested and unprepared for the job.

Now in the campaign’s sites: Sue Lowden, a wealthy gaming executive, former state senator and former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party, and Danny Tarkanian, a Las Vegas businessman and the son of legendary basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian.

“I expect him to vaporize Lowden or Tarkanian or whoever is the opponent,” said a Reid adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss campaign strategy.

Vaporizing people? Doesn't seems so warm and fuzzy now, does it?

“I think Harry Reid will attempt to savage whoever the nominee is,” said Jamie Fisfis, a top adviser to Tarkanian, a candidate he calls “an outsider” and a “fresh face” for the party.