Posted on 07/20/2004 10:33:27 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
Fox, CNN, USAToday... Looks the Sandy Berger story does have legs after all. Unlike Max Cleland's latest rant.
Now they have him stuffing documents into his socks. I mean, why else would you put documents there unless you wanted them to disappear forever? Off the foot, into the dryer, and poof. Both sock & doc, gone, never to reappear - except perhaps extruded from a wormhole in the Gamma Quadrant.
And, in a truly inspired moment of hypocrisy, Gurglin' Dave Gergen makes the network rounds trying to spin the whole thing away as 'innocent in intent'. Best one I've heard since the guy who accidentally brutally cut off his own head while shaving. Even the CNN talking head (still attached) wasn't buying it. If Gergen was a 180 pound jet-fueled human dreidel, he couldn't spin enough to slip out of this one. It takes a particularly Kool-Aid laden Katie Couric to even come close to buying what's being shilled.
Oh, and one from the "coincidence of coincidences" department: now I've heard that the 'lost' 'accidentally misplaced' 'classified' documents that weren't returned were drafts by none other than... Richard Clarke. Imagine that. The DNC playmate of the month for April. First, Lyin' Joe "Liar" Plame Wilson, now "Dick" Clarke. Funny how that entire cavalcade of Johnny-come-lately Pulitzer-wannabe shooting-stars, having penned their "Bush lied" screeds, and been celebrated as the noble brave whistle-blowers who tried and tried to tell the truth to the adminstration, are exposed as liars themselves.
The synchronicity is quite fetching - all having their rug pulled out from under them, all at the same time. I'd like to say it's another brilliant Karl Rove strategery, but it's just perfect. Too perfect. It's almost... evil. Which got me to thinking...
It took quite a sacrifice from Camp Clinton to take down the main wedge of Kerry's attack on Bush. Berger falling on the sword here effectively neuters the J+J campaign's main (perhaps only) plank: that Bush lied, and America needs anyone else as President - because God knows that Kerry's main (sole?) qualification to that office is that he is not Bush. Next, we will see Frankenlurch's flank will be exposed, and attacked. And that flank, of course, is Jane Fonda & his postwar dalliances with certain cat-cookies commies. So, who all is going to see "The Manchurian Candidate" next month? "Fahrenheit 451"? Pfft. Peaked too early. The real fun will come when the real skeletons come tumbling out of the Kerry closet. All they need is the slightest push. The betting here says, they'll get it.
Do you really think it's a coincidence that yesterday Frau Hillary came out and said she "would not run against a sitting President Kerry" in '08, and the next day, the Sand-burglar's misdeeds are all over the front page? Believe me, this story would not see the light of day unless Dr. Stalin & the Media Comrades signed off on it. Code words? Maybe, maybe not. But the usual suspects sure have sprung to surprising action, over an issue that 4 years ago would have been papered over (pun intended).
The end result of all of this will be a demoralized Democrat base, and energized Republican base (especially as those desperate Hollyweird flameouts continue, i.e. Ronstadt), a Bush blowout in November, and four years for the real power in the Democratic party to gird for battle. Don't worry, it's a lead pipe cinch that Kerry will end up making Mike Dukakis look like Charlemagne, by comparison. But worry, and worry greatly about 2008. Every underhanded tactic, every fraudulent scheme, every complicit media conspirator will be in play for that one. It will be very, very ugly.
There are certainly better ways to take Kerry out than to let slip that Kerry's NatSec adviser is a criminal. A little indirect, don't you think?
Hildebeeste has better stuff than that.
Of course, it's also possible that this was a warning, or a warm-up pitch.
She could save the good stuff for last.
My only quibble is with your use of the term "conspiracy."
It's not. Only Bill and Hildebeeste, and perhaps Mr Money, are involved.
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Trouble is, as the day has gone on, I've had a sinking feeling. This is too much, too soon. I expected something to come out of the blue that would hurt him to the point that he couldn't win. Not something that would cripple him to the point he couldn't run.
Now I'm beginning to wonder if that '08 timeframe was naivete on my part.
If I'm correct, the documents that Berger pilfered were critical of the Clinton administration. Everyone knows that Clinton wasn't serious about national security. In addition, before becoming National Security Advisor, Berger was an international trade consultant to the government of China, not an American ally.
Am I premature, or does the "t-word" apply here?
Triplex...
Takes down Kerry, Shrillary and bubba
Or to protect himself.
LOL! You're probably right. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
Did you see the comment x42 made .. he said they were "laughing about it".
Geeeeee .. is there something funny about STEALING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS.
I think that's the point I was trying to make. This may not be a direct hit .. but first there was the lying Wilson, and now the stealing Berger .. both associated with the Kerry campaign .. just more of the drip, drip, drip!
Also Berger and Kerry go back to Kerry's Lt. Gov days.
excellent article!
No offense, but the public doesn't know nearly enough yet to determine the real meaning of the latest Berger flap.
Maybe not. But I'll bet you dollars to donuts, this 'leak' is direct from the DNC camp, which means it's open season to speculate on what that means.
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