All the King's Hatchet Men

Let's see:

Karl Rove [1]
Steve Schmidt [2]
and now Tucker Eskew [3] has joined McCain.

All McCain needs to complete his dream smear team is to resurrect Lee Atwater [4], the GOP's "happy hatchet man." (Obviously, McCain would, if he could.) Except it was Atwater who, as he lay dying of a brain tumor, discovered what America needed most was what was missing in him, "a little heart, a lot of brotherhood" to cure "the spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, the tumor of the soul." Bill Moyers had this video remembrance [5].