New Yorker scores!

[nikatnyte]

This from the lead "Talk of the Town" item this week --

The anti-Kerry veterans group and the official Bush campaign are advised by the same lawyer, Benjamin L. Ginsberg (or were until last Wednesday, when he abruptly resigned as national counsel to Bush-Cheney 04 Inc.); they enjoy the financial support of the same wealthy Texas Republicans, especially Bob Perry, a close friend and political associate of Karl Rove; and they are connected to each other and to the Republican Pary by a web of operatives and consultants. Facts such as these do not in themselves demonstrate unlawful coordination between the Bush campaign and the veterans group, which is one of many groups known as '527s' in honor of the legal loophole under which they were created. They offer even less support, however, for the assertion of Matt Racicot, the chairman of Bush-Cheney 04 Inc., that "there is no connection of any kind whatsoever." Suffice it to say that if the proveable ties between the Sadaam Hussein regime and Al Qaeda had been a fraction as strong as the provable ties between the Bush campaign and the veterans group, the "coalition of the willing" would have been larger than it is.

[gristy]

1. Damn good point.

Suffice it to say that if the proveable ties between the Sadaam Hussein regime and Al Qaeda had been a fraction as strong as the provable ties between the Bush campaign and the veterans group, the "coalition of the willing" would have been larger than it is.

[AmerDem]

3. your post wasn't up when i added mine

but i guess we aren't the only ones who thought the same thing.

[AmerDem]

2. great comparison

"Suffice it to say that if the provable ties between the Sadaam Hussein regime and Al Qaeda had been a fraction as strong as the provable ties between the Bush campaign and the veterans group, the "coalition of the willing" would have been larger than it is".