Update: 9:15 a.m. Looks like the site has been taken down. If you click on the link I provide below, you'll be redirected to McKenna's campaign Web site. However, you can view screenshots of the Democrats' anti-McKenna site captured by blogger Steve Lawson here.

OLYMPIA -- How worried are state Democrats about Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna running for governor in 2012?

They're already testing out some anti-McKenna attacks on a Web site: www.robmckennaforgovernor.com

This was flagged for me in an e-mail from Steve Lawson, an Issaquah social media & communications consultant, who stumbled across the site Wednesday and blogged about it here. (Also check out Lawson's cool video biography.)

The anti-McKenna Web site has been registered to the state Democratic Party since last June.

That's shortly after McKenna hired Randy Pepple, a long-time Republican political consultant, as his chief of staff, a move ripped by Democrats as an overt sign McKenna was positioning himself to run for governor in 2012.

The Democrats' Web site gives a pretty good indication of how they'll attack McKenna if he does run. It paints him as an anti-transit, hypocritical, self-promoter who also happens to be a closet ultraconservative.

"They are afraid," said state Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser. "Good for Rob that they're concerned that he would be a very formidable candidate for governor."

"We're just getting ready for him to run for governor," said Washington State Democratic Party Chairman Dwight Pelz. "I think McKenna has had a steady track record of turning the AG's office into sort of a press release mill to take on the popular issue of the day."

The site is clearly a work in progress. It has a section labeled "press releases" that reads:

the Attorrney General's office has too many press staff issues too many press releases. The three (is it more?) full time press aides issued 140 press releases in 2009 as of October 14. That is an average of 47 per aide, and ___ per business day. The three staff persons are paid a total of $_________________. (we need to see if Gregoire did fewer or more press releases as AG)

(we should have one of those running clocks listing the number of press releases)
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Good thing Democrats have a couple years to perfect their arguments.

Meanwhile, I suppose Republicans could start work on jayinslee2012.com.