(I simply bring that up as a parallel--the Left went bonkers over Bush's service in the National Guard--and don't forget that DUI/DWI/whatever in Maine). If any lefty tries to claim that Obama's birth certificate is none of your business, shove that in his face.
The Obama team hounded a Republican named Jack Ryan out of the an Illinois campaign with the forced release of his sealed divorce records.
Obama has no claim to privacy here. None at all.
The leak (and there was no “forced” release of the lawfirm records) of Bush’s DUI case was an October Surprise. It came a few days before the general election in 2000. It clearly cost Bush some support.
If it cost him 0.52% of the vote, then it cost him the popular vote in 2000. Gore’s margin of victory in the popular vote was that thin.
You want to talk about attempts to steal an election?
If AP hadn’t forced Dan Rather’s hand with the forged National Guard memos (they both had copies, AP was going to break the “story” as fact), it could’ve thrown the 2004 election, historical accuracy be damned.
The Left knows to sit on an October Surprise (like Foleygate) until the hyperbolic statements and lies in the media cannot be countered in time to recover. The subsequent Congressional investigation into the Mark Foley scandal showed that both the media and the DNC (who COLLUDED on that “culture of corruption” story in 2006) both knew more than GOP leadership and knew it sooner BOTH opting to sit on the reports until they could be used to political advantage in October.