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A Conclusion Looking For Evidence
From a comment on one of Daily Kos' open threads:

"Valentine" - February 24th, 2005
Why haven't we been able to successfully link Guckert and the conservative pundits who accepted taxpayer money to push Bush's agenda? ... When will we successfully connect all these cases into a coherent whole?

Has it not occurred to the conspiracy theorists that they cannot find a connection because -- brace yourself for this -- there might not be one? Evidence is supposed to predate a conclusion, isn't it?

Meanwhile, the blogosphere is abuzz in response to Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey's claims that the one and only Karl Rove is behind the Rathergate scandal:

Maurice Hinchey - February 19th, 2005
Now, I mean, I have my own beliefs about how that happened: it originated with Karl Rove, in my belief, in the White House. They set that up with those false papers. Why did they do it? They knew that Bush was a draft dodger. They knew that he had run away from his responsibilties in the Air National Guard in Texas, gone out of the state intentionally for a long period of time. They knew that he had no defense for that period in his life. And so what they did was, expecting that that was going to come up, they accentuated it: they produced papers that made it look even worse.

This, of course, has managed to breath new life into the Roveophobia among the Democratic faithful.

Once upon a time, these kinds of silly accusations induced frustration, but they're quickly becoming self-parodical, and are pretty clearly serving the people they're directed at. Rove, no doubt, endorses these kinds of attributions; he knows the Republican party benefits from having a "Keyser Soze." Who wouldn't want their opponents spending as much time as possible on wild flights of fancy? Every minute spent working on an impossibly convoluted rationalization is a minute not spent fundraising or volunteering for a viable Democratic cause.

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