Don't confuse the Democrats with the facts

"Unfortunately, Bob Woodward didn't want to play along, although he may wind up being somewhat irrelevant as the Kerry campaign will flog this for the legions of the brain-dead who believe that Bush conspires with the Sauds on everything he does," writes Captain Ed of Captain's Quarters in a post headlined "Woodward Denies Secret Saudi Oil Deal; Can Kerry Read?" on Blogs for Bush this morning.

After skimming Bob Woodward's new book, Path to War, Democrats led by John Kerry have charged that the Bush administration concocted a secret deal with the Saudi royal family to lower oil prices prior to the election. Kerry ranted about the subject repeatedly over the past couple of days. But the White House, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, and even Bob Woodward himself say that his book never made that claim . . .

Clinton made "secret" arrangements to assist American consumers in an election year too! Damn him for that inexpensive gasoline I bought on the way to vote for George Bush! Even Carter tried to make "secret" pre-election deals, but typically he forgot that 1979 wasn't an election year. And also typically, he failed miserably; in 1979 I wound up enduring two-hour gasoline lines, and I could only buy gasoline on even-numbered days because the last number of my license plate ended in an even number, thanks to California gas rationing.

What Kerry and other leading Democrats -- who sent an asinine letter to the White House demanding information on his conspiracy to commit economic diplomacy -- wanted to do is to set up a catch-22 for the election. Under this conspiracy theory, Bush could be blamed for higher gas prices and for lower gas prices. Either way, he would be attacked, the former showing his ineptitude and the latter his conspiratorial bent.

Everyone else will recognize this as nutcase politics, the kind of demagoguery that you'd expect to hear from back-woods, tax-resistor militia rather than a credible major-party candidate.

Same old same old, Captain, Sir. The Democrats and their media accomplices are casting a wide net of lies and half truths, hoping to snare enough slack-jawed, mouth-breathing swing voters to haul in the election.

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