White House turncoat... ummm, former Press Secretary Scott McClellan says he tried to give George W. Bush the benefit of the doubt regarding the war in Iraq but was ultimately lied to, hoodwinked, and bamboozled! Just like the rest of us. The dismayed and disallusioned 40-year-old McClellan clearly is having a mid-life crisis, telling anyone who will listen that although he had worried about the rush to war, he felt affection for his boss and trusted the President's foreign policy advisers. Now, not so much.
And this revelation came just as he was banging out his now top best-selling book "What Happened". Now the GOP is in a tailspin, having to put in overtime selling the American people on McClellan being a "disgruntled" non-contributing empty suit that today sounds like a "left-wing blogger", per Bush's brain Karl Rove.
Realizing that the war was sold with propaganda that inflated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, this tomb is Exhibit A as to why you don't screw over people in the Internet age and not expect that ish to come back on you. It's clear that just about everything this former foot soldier is saying has truth stirred in like a big cup of sugar in some Cherry-flavored Kool-Aid. McClellan knew he would have to endure the slings and arrows White House surrogates would be directing at him. Which is why it makes sense that the book was released when it was.
I mean c'mon, if you're going to get run out of town -- you might as well grab a baton and make it look like a parade. And right now the marching band is playing a somber tune when it comes to Republicans having ANY success this year in national politics.
Exhibit B - Ratings for the President are at 23%, an all time low. No other president has seen this level of discontent among the citizentry. Ergo, keep him off the campaign trial but take his money on DL
Exhibt C - Record levels of suicides from Army troops. According to CNN, in 2007, there were 108 deaths, a majority of them men 18-24 suffering from depression, stress and an inablity to cope with civilian life.
Exhibit D - White House officials insisting they will not go through McClellan's book blow-by-blow. Why? They simply don't have the time. And yet they maintain that the allegations being lodged are not accurate, nor is Karl Rove and Scooter Libby the boogeymen they are painted out to be.
Exhibit E - The GOP brand is gathering dust on the shelves. McCain is not inspiring, three long-held Republicans seats lost this year, criminal prosecutions, scandals, an unpopular war and an economy in the toilet. Yeah, sign me up. Not!
P.S. And I'm a Republican. A Republican supporting Barack.
And for me, this is a no brainer!