Maybe, if true, if you are saying that the Dems were sitting on the Instant Messages, as opposed to the more ambiguous I want your picture request Foley email (a claim as to the IM's if that is what you mean, that you have yet to back up). But that is what the opposition does. The opposition sits on dirt for release at the most opportune time. It is the duty of those not in opposition, to embrace transparency. It is also smart. When they do, they will be rewarded.
Torie did that help the GOP in the Lewinsky scandal in the 1998 elections? No. They overplayed like the Democrats are doing now