Preemptive paranoia

[Bdog]

Here’s how bad off the Democrats are: They’re cowering behind closed doors, whispering that if it should ever turn out that Republicans are behind this, it would be so exquisitely Machiavellian, so beyond what Democrats are capable of, they should just fold and concede the election now -- before the Republicans have to go to the trouble of stealing it again.


There’s no evidence -- it’s just a preposterous, paranoid fantasy at this point. But it speaks to the jitters of the Democrats that they’re consumed with speculation about whether Karl Rove, the master of dirty tricks and surrogate sleaze, could have set up CBS in a diabolical preemptive strike to undermine damaging revelations about Bush 43’s privileged status and vanishing act in the National Guard, and his odd refusal to take his required physical when ordered.


In this vast left-wing conspiracy theory, Mr. Rove takes real evidence on W.’s shirking and transfers it to documents doomed to be exposed as phony (thereby undermining the real goods), then funnels it through third parties to Dan Rather, Bush 41’s nemesis on Iran-contra. A perfect bank shot.

The Democratic paranoia is a measure of the intimidation the West Wing is wielding in a race where John Kerry can’t seem to take advantage of any of the Bush administration’s increasingly calamitous blunders.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=Opinion&OID=59764

[whistle]

1. Such horse shit....

[Zorra]

5. Well said.

The tide has turned.

The republicans are now permanently on the defensive. They are getting desperate, clutching at any little thing - but it is hopeless.

Bu$h is toast.

[Larkspur]

2. I think the Iraqi insurgents are going to give Bush an October surprise

that will trump anything Rove can overcome.

[NoBorders]

3. The first part is BS, but the rest is good:

-snip

House Republicans started clamoring for a congressional inquiry into the documents used by 60 Minutes, saying it might be an attempt to manipulate the election. (Isn’t that what the Democrats are scared the Republicans are doing?)


These same Republicans never wanted investigations into missing WMD, why Congress passed a Medicare bill based on faulty figures, Abu Ghraib or even whether those Swiftie guys were lying, for Pete’s sake.


The Democratic paranoia is a measure of the intimidation the West Wing is wielding in a race where John Kerry can’t seem to take advantage of any of the Bush administration’s increasingly calamitous blunders.


The administration has been so dazzling in misleading the public with audacious, mendacious malarkey that the Democrats fear the Bushies are capable of any level of deceit.


Iraq is a vision of hell, and the Republicans act as if it’s a model kitchen. The President and Vice President brag about liberating Iraqis and reassure us that they are stopping terrorist violence at its source and inspiring democracy in the region by bringing it to blood-drenched Iraq.


But what they haven’t mentioned is that they have known since July that their rosy scenarios are as bogus as their WMD. That’s when the President received a national intelligence estimate that spelled out “a dark assessment of prospects” for stability and governance in Iraq in the next 18 months, as Douglas Jehl wrote in The Times. Worst-case estimates include civil war or anarchy.


Unlike the President, the young men and women trying to stay alive in the unraveling chaos of Iraq can’t count on their daddies to get them out of the line of fire.

[amber dog democrat]

4. I don't agree with the first statement either

They stole the first election and will stop at nothing to steal the next.
I don't doubt KR is somehow behind this.
It has his hallmarks
Whisper campaigns
using 3 rd parties to do his dirty work
attacking , always attacking with lying accusations, inuendo, red herrings, straw men.
Character assassinations.

But it could be Karen Hughs - or both.
Wonder if KR has a copy of The Prince on his night table.