Democratic Plan to Tar Republicans Hits a Snag; But Plan Moves Ahead Anyway

The Money Trail

While the Democratic spin doctors were licking their chops to try tarring Republicans with the Abramoff scandal, they forgot to make sure their own hands were clean in the matter.

Harry Reid, John Kerry, and Hilary Clinton (to name just a few of the bigger Democratic names involved) have all benefitted from association with Abramoff and/or his clientele; so it's going to be very difficult for them to claim that anyone who took money from Abramoff is necessarily corrupt and needs to be voted out of office. It would be seeming political suicide for the 90% of Democratic Senators who did the same thing.

The crazy part is that they're going to do it anyway, and it will probably have some effect. History has shown that they will simply say that sure Democrats took money, but their intentions were honorable while those evil Republicans are despicably corrupt and danced with the devil while they plotted to kill babies with the illicit funds.

Rather than accept that there is deep-seated corruption in Washington on both sides of the aisle, there is a significant portion of their constituency who will believe them - not because it has the ring of truth, but because it helps justify their irrational tin hat anti-Republican conspiracy theories that they can't let go of without destroying their entire world view.

They don't just want to believe Republicans are evil incarnate, they need to because if Republicans aren't evil then the world doesn't make sense for them any more. They forced themselves to repeat 'Blood for Oil' and all the lies of Fahrenheit 9/11 to keep their mental house of cards from falling down, why should they start worrying about facts now?