Another Dirtbag Bursts, Spills on Bush’s Rug

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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Another Dirtbag Bursts, Spills on Bush's Rug

"After 10 full years inside the GOP, 90 days among honest criminals wasn't really any great ordeal." - Former GOP operative Allen Raymond.

I suppose we ought to be grateful for the avalanche of dirt that's beginning to cascade and breach the levees erected by the GOP. We've seen just this year alone the emergence of George Tenet's self-righteous book, the third part of Bob Woodward's trilogy on the Bush administration and have read excerpts from Scott McClellan's upcoming "tell-all" book.

Now it's Allen Raymond's turn to turn state's evidence.

Wouldbe Karl Rove Allen has penned a book himself entitled, "How to Rig An Election" and it details, according to McClatchy, which had obtained an advance copy, the 2002 phone jamming scam that helped keep John Sununu in the Senate when he "beat" Governor Jeanne Shaheen by 19,000 votes.

That was the same election, by the way, that landed not only Raymond and a coconspirator in prison but also got James Tobin convicted (believe it or not, in case you haven't been following, Tobin got a retrial, thanks to a $6,000,000 push from GOP attorneys).

Typically, the RNC's reaction is to discredit the witness. Danny Diaz, an RNC mouthpiece, said that "it would be hard to find two less credible individuals" than Raymond and his co-author Ian Spiegelman and, on the face of it, Diaz may be right. Raymond, after all, plea-bargained his way into a three month-long jail term in a Pennsylvania prison and Spiegelman is a former tabloid journalist who'd lost his job for sending a threatening email.

Still, it doesn't mean that a stopped clock isn't right even twice a day. And, considering Tobin's conviction a few years ago, it doesn't mean that even a ******* whore like Raymond (who said that he took political management courses in college simply to make money and didn't care what party he'd end up representing) is talking out of his ass.

Raymond's motivation for writing this book is the same as McClellan's or anyone else's: Sour grapes pelted at a GOP or a Bush administration whom they felt had slighted them. All these books we're seeing all of a sudden from former GOP operatives and administration officials have one thing in common: They were all thrown under the bus and were blindsided, as if they actually didn't know what and with whom they were dealing.

To give you an idea of the kind of people with whom Raymond was dealing just prior to the 2002 midterms, James Tobin called Raymond to ask him if he could jam the New Hampshire Democratic party's phone lines. After the election, Raymond called him back to tell him that a NH cop was looking into the phone jamming scheme, Tobin played dumb and said, "I don't know what you're talking about."

Maybe he was afraid the NSA was listening in.

Either way, Raymond should've known what kind of scumbolos he was getting involved in and had no right to get pissed when he woke up one day a few months later and found bus tire tracks across his back. If his book leads to more investigations, arrests and convictions, great.

Otherwise, he shouldn't try to pretend that his motives are any loftier than they truly are. Books like Raymond's are necessary evils, nothing more.