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Lame, Lame Chris Lehane Rides Again
PoliticalUSA.com ^ | 6/24/2002 | Nathan Porter

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gore; lehane

1 posted on 06/24/2002 10:55:45 AM PDT by JoeGOP
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To: JoeGOP
This isn't news. John Zogby, who most closely predicted the popular vote outcome said that the DUI coverage cost Bush the popular vote.

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.

2 posted on 06/24/2002 11:16:48 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative
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To: JoeGOP
Chris who? I'd almost forgotten him Joe. What a vile little creature.
3 posted on 06/24/2002 11:17:53 AM PDT by Mike K
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To: JoeGOP
WHAT A GREAT ARTICLE!!!! Everyone, be sure to read the entire piece - it's priceless!! Thanks for posting JoeGOP.
4 posted on 06/24/2002 11:21:01 AM PDT by Elkiejg
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To: JoeGOP
A Gore presidency would likely have meant that America would’ve been forced to endure as presidential press secretary the ugly, smug, flesh-eating mammal that is Chris Lehane.

You know, I wish Nathan Porter would tell us how he really feels.....BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Good post JoeGOP.

FMCDH

5 posted on 06/24/2002 11:25:42 AM PDT by nothingnew
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To: JoeGOP
One can tell a lot about a president or a candidate by his choice for press secretary, and to this day a snotty-nosed, pompous prick like Chris Lehane says a lot about Al Gore and his pathetic campaign for the presidency. I thank God that I do not have to suffer through day after day of Chris Lehane’s unprofessional, press-secretarial McCarthyism.

Go Nathan Go!

6 posted on 06/24/2002 11:32:46 AM PDT by hattend
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To: Elkiejg
Your reccommendation was a good one! Good post.
7 posted on 06/24/2002 11:50:37 AM PDT by windchime
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To: JoeGOP
Batchelor and Alexander are resurrecting all the slimy creatures from elections past. They are so desperate to hurt the President they'll allow anyone on their night time show.

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.

8 posted on 06/24/2002 12:15:06 PM PDT by OldFriend
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To: JoeGOP
Lehane really is a disgusting little creature, and I have no doubt a Gore admin would have been a managerie of such freaks. We still live in a world, unfortunately, where the media tries to get down on a stand up guy like Ari Fleischer, but never shined a spotlight on Gore's sneering snot of a press secretary.

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.

9 posted on 06/24/2002 1:01:53 PM PDT by Williams
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To: GraniteStateConservative
It was a great political move and Bush could have put this fire out back in the spring and it would have been forgotten.

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.

10 posted on 06/24/2002 2:54:30 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Mike K
"What a vile little creature."

Amen to that


11 posted on 06/24/2002 6:00:38 PM PDT by Hillary's Folly
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To: Paleo Conservative
Even better. I agree.
12 posted on 06/24/2002 7:12:15 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative
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