HUGH HEWITT - Alert to the Kerry-NYTimes Ticket: Incoming RMX Boomerang
UPDATE at 12:30 PM, Pacific
The decision by the Kerry-NYTimes ticket to rush an ad out based on the already collapsed story of the missing RMX, as well as the Kerry flaks' continued attempt to resuscitate the bogus claim tells us three things:
First, the Kerry camp has got nothing else. Nothing. No "October surprise."
Second, there must deep desperation in the Kerry camp based on their internal polling to put their chips on a collapsing story --sort of like running ads on the CBS memos while campaigning in Wisconsin and New Mexico.
Finally, the Kerry camp desperation is felt in places like TalkingPointsMemo, which is trying CPR on the NYTimes story, and where the shredding of NYTimes credibility will soon have the same effect on its credibility as well as that of everyone else who ate the bait.
Yesterday, even before its collapse, the New York Times story had no teeth in it because there was no proof that the munitions disappeared after the arrival of the army and no proof that, had they been carted off post victory, that blame could plausibly attach to W.
Now that the story is both a fraud, and at the same time confirmation that Saddam had (1)very dangerous stuff and (2)WMD might have been spirited away as war threatened or broke out, the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign must be welcoming the complete incompetence of the Kerry forces, who have once again decided to charge uphill into the face of withering down-hill fire, on terrain chosen by the Bush-Cheney 2004 team, namely, who would be a better Commander-in-Chief in a conflict where the bad guys --Saddam and his terrorist allies-- have access to tons and tons of RMX?
BTW: Check out CaptainsQuarters and KerrySpot for comprehensive assessment of the logistical capacity necessary to "loot" 380 tons of volatile munitions. Given that the mass of WMD necessary to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans is considerably less than 380 tons, why is their reluctance by the left to grasp the threat Saddam presented? And where do you store 380 tons of volatile explosives, anyway? How dense can the New York Times and Dr. Marshall be? Or shameless?
Turning over the nation's defense to this crowd would be like putting Barney Fife in charge of the Navy SEALs. Speaking of which, go read FroggyRuminations on the subject of Kerry as C-in-C.
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