Did CA GOPer Chuck DeVore -- yes, Chuck DeVore -- beat the CIA to predicting Egypt crisis?

SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 2/15/11 | Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

[SmithL]

California U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein recently criticized the intelligence community for failing to anticipate Egypt's political upheaval -- but looks like the CIA types should have been reading Chuck DeVore.

That's right: the California GOP former U.S. Senate candidate published an analysis back in January warning Egypt was on "the brink of a chaotic transition of power" -- weeks before anyone had even taken to the streets of Cairo.

The former Irvine Assemblyman raised his concerns on the issue of Egypt's future in a Jan. 11 piece in Investors' Business Daily entitled "A Restive Egypt Faces Succession; Islamacists May Make a Bid for Power."

[skeeter]

"Devore or Boxer; Boxer or Devore. Hmmm... I think I'll go with Boxer."

I can only laugh at my fellow Californians.

Laugh or I'll start crying again.

[Publius6961]

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[Wuli]

Officially, I predicted, on 9/28/2001, in a piece published on the web, that, post 9/11, Egypt and the other dictators and monarchs in the Middle East had a choice - use the power they still had then to be their own agents of change and democratic reform, or they would in time create the internal conditions for having their power taken from them by Islamists or revolutionaries. From my point of view then, 9/28/2001, the question was not whether or not Egypt (and others) would go through the political turmoil they are now, but when.

[Lazlo in PA]

I love DeVore, but anyone can say the same of all of the countries on the Arab Street. They are run by strongmen who treat their people like garbage. The DeVore piece just looks like he called something that would have eventually happened with the age of Mubarek.

[pissant]

I almost cry when I think of what the DeVore-Boxer debates would have looked like, and knowing that some IDIOTs got behind FioRINO instead with $$ and support, telling us that she was the only one who could beat Boxer. That sure worked out well.

[Cowboy Bob]

I almost cry when I think of what the DeVore-Boxer debates would have looked like, and knowing that some IDIOTs got behind FioRINO instead with $$ and support, telling us that she was the only one who could beat Boxer. That sure worked out well.

Of course! These are the same people that say we need a woman to defeat a woman, or a Black to defeat a Black. Remember all the people pushing Condoleezza Rice - "a Black and a Woman - she'll be unbeatable!" /sarc

[pissant]

Dickie Morris wrote a book called Hillary v. Condi, didn’t he?