New book pins 'debategate' on Democrat

Politico.com ^ | October 15, 2009 | Craig Shirley

[Bubba_Leroy]

In the annals of Washington scandals, “debategate” in 1983 may have set some sort of record for flare followed by fizzle. It looked to some reporters, for a brief moment, like it could topple a CIA director, a White House chief of staff and maybe even a president.

In the end, though, investigators never determined who pilfered and turned over to the Ronald Reagan campaign the briefing books President Jimmy Carter was using to prep for his 1980 debate with candidate Reagan. No one fell, and debategate got filed away decades ago in the musty museum of political trivia, under the heading of unsolved mysteries.

Now, in his new book, “Rendezvous With Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America,” a much broader look at the campaign that elected Reagan, Craig Shirley, Reagan biographer and conservative public relations executive, has gathered a wealth of evidence, all of which points to one man — the late political operative and onetime Kennedy family confidant Paul Corbin — as the culprit.

[Bubba_Leroy]

From the article:

Corbin later bragged to some friends that he had the goods on Democrat Al Gore. Joseph Sweat, one of Corbin’s associates in Tennessee, remembered that Corbin accused Gore, then a young congressman, of renting rooms in a motel in Cookeville to watch pornography. “That goddamn Gore, he is up there in a motel ... watching those dirty movies!” Corbin exclaimed. Asked how he knew, Corbin replied, “The desk clerk; I paid him a little bit, and he gave me the receipt.”

This confirms what I have always suspected, that Algore invented the Internet to allow for easier access to porn.

[SmokingJoe]

“This confirms what I have always suspected, that Algore invented the Internet to allow for easier access to porn”

Yup.
That pretty much nails it. :)

[Hans]

Spend a minute or two sniffing around a Democrat and up pops a member of the communist party.

[End Times Sentinel]

Algore invented the Internet to allow for easier access to porn.

And for that, we owe him an eternal debt of gratitude.

[PhiKapMom]

Isn’t that the truth?

[skully]

Algore invented the Internet to allow for easier access to porn.

And for that, we owe him an eternal debt of gratitude.

But doesn’t masturbation increase one's Carbon Hand print??

[Albion Wilde]

On Oct. 25, Corbin ...picked up a check for $1,500. .. just three days before the big debate between Reagan and Carter. On Nov. 3, the day before the election, Corbin picked up a second and final check from the Reagan campaign, this time in the amount of $1,360.

Why $1,860? Curious detail. Must have been $1,500 plus expenses.

[IrishCatholic]

Just another commie in the woodpile bookmark.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It’s more evidence that commies are haters. He hated Carter more than he cared about the Democratic party. At least he advanced a fellow Irishman.

[fungoking]

To this day, President Carter is deeply upset about the purloined material. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that it made some difference,” he complained when I interviewed him. Before the debate, held just a week before the election, he and Reagan were in a dead heat; Reagan ended up winning the election in a landslide.

Polling bias Jimmy, you still would have gotten killed; but keep telling it to yourself if it makes you feel better.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Irish Alzheimers: They forget everything but the grudges.