Posted on 06/24/2002 10:55:44 AM PDT by JoeGOP
Webster's defines weasel as any of a worldwide group of agile, flesh-eating mammals with short legs and a bushy tail, the base of the word being weis, which in reference to the rank odor emitted by an animal means to flow out. They could save some ink by defining weasel as Chris Lehane, press secretary to Al Gore during the 2000 election.
Lehane crawled out of his timeshare beneath Maine Avenue this week to reveal that, in his opinion, the sneak attack disclosure that George W. Bush had been arrested for DUI gave the popular vote to Gore in the 2000 presidential election. "Obviously, I think it did have an impact on the election," Lehane told WABC Radio's John Batchelor and Paul Alexander.
As Newsmax reported this week, “the Bush DWI story undoubtedly caused Bush's slim nationwide lead to evaporate overnight and precipitated the 37-day Florida recount fiasco that still has Democrats grousing Gore was robbed.”
"There is something of a mystery that has unfolded since we broke the story," Fox News Channel's Carl Cameron reported days before the election. "And that is that part of the arrest record and the state of Maine's documentation of George Bush's driving record and arrest record in Maine was faxed to news agencies all over the country after we were on the air with it at 6 o'clock Eastern time." MORE
I don't blame Lehane. It was a great political move and Bush could have put this fire out back in the spring and it would have been forgotten.
Everyone knew he had a drinking problem and the revelation that it caused him legal problems wouldn't be shocking. In fact, many looked up to how Bush was able to turn his life around with the help of his faith in God and Jesus Christ. That his problem reached breaking the law would make his comeback (and climb up) even more impressive.
You know, I wish Nathan Porter would tell us how he really feels.....BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Good post JoeGOP.
FMCDH
Go Nathan Go!
Alexander is writing an authorized bio of John McCain so you can see where these guys are coming from.
All pretense of one being a republican and the other a conservative democrat have long since gone by the board in their attempt to hurt the president....caring not a bit that the country is hurt too.
But then we are also still in a world turned upside down, that questioned the intelligence of George Bush (Harvard, Yale) but never mentioned the dunce Al Gore who FLUNKED out of both seminary and law schools, an academic non-achiever by any definition. I still am disgusted by articles referring to how "brilliant" Gore is.
The ideal time to have disclosed this was the 1994 race for governor. He was running against Ann Richard, who also had overcome a drinking problem. The Lieutenant Governor was Bob Bullock who was also a reformed drinker. There is no way the issue could have been used against him that year.
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