Rumor has it that MD4Bush is a Montgomery Country Democrat operative trying to start the primary season early and give a boost to Doug Duncan. If there's a split in the DNC in the country then it's safe to assume the balance of power in MD is suffering the same fate. On one side is O'Malley representing the old guard, and on the other is Duncan representing the new element. Baltimore City v. Montgomery County, Anne Arundel County, and possibly Prince George's County.
The rumors about O'Malley have been swirling since the governor's race when KKT was tapped and O'Malley took a bath. A guy like O'Malley doesn't sit out an election he knows he can win unless there's a reason, and I don't think it's Kennedy money.
It's my estimation that Maryland Democrats are in the midst of a scism and this is just the beginning.
But perhaps the best part is that while the Democrats scream for an investigation, and Ehrlich agrees to it, the one guy who has to execute the investigation is none other then Joe Curran, father in law of Mayor Martin O'Malley, and Maryland Attorney General.
And if all of this is known to the opposition it's fair to assume that they never intended this to stick to Ehrlich but rather to draw out those nasty rumors and get O'Malley on the fence months out from a contentious primary.
Remember when the Democrats in congress had a memo stolen from an unsecured server? What did the Democrats scream about? They ignored the content and decried the theft.
Remember when CBS ran a story on forged documents? They ignored the forgery and ran with the content.
In this case they (the Wapo, and Baltimore Sun) are ignoring the instigator (MD4Bush) and accusing Steffen (NCPAC) of dirty tricks. One problem: if one side of the Democrat party is using the scandal to raise the 2 year old rumors and the other side is trying to take down an incumbent Republican governor who won an election and wrestled power from the Democrats for the first time in over 30 years after 9/11, and in the face of record setting elections of Republicans based on an old campaign model, who do you think is adjusting their game plan?
I'd put my money on the "new" Democrats, Doug Duncan, and pass on the Sun, and the Washington Post.
From what I have read......MD4Bush was talking about the rumor before that NCPAC guy......
So the basis of the rumor would be a democrap....whose ip can be tracked.......
And it looks like the Washington Post and the Baltimore sun may have coordinated with a dem operative to work their story.....
If that were to pan out....it would show extreme bias on the newspaper's behalf.
Kinda like Kurtz and his NY TIMES story on that Gannon guy last week. One of his sources was dailykos. Zuniga, who runs that site had been on the Howard Dean payroll and now, it seems, is going to raise funds for the DNC through that web site.
Kurtz did not disclose that stuff.