I Hope This Story Has Legs
Senator Harry Reid is in trouble. Despite the fact he is the Senate Majority Leader and one of the most visible Democrats in the country, he is trailing in most polls behind potential Republican challengers. He has even been labeled as the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in the Senate by the Cook Political Report.
Of course, all this was before this story came out today:
Washington (CNN) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized Saturday following reports he had privately described then-candidate Barack Obama during the presidential campaign as a black candidate who could be successful thanks in part to his “light-skinned” appearance and speaking patterns “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
It should come as no surprise that this came out on a weekend. If you don’t want a story to have legs, you try and get it released on a weekend when nobody is paying any attention or is too drunk/hungover to take it seriously. The media did the same thing with the Edwards affair story in 2008 in an attempt to kill it before the Democratic Convention.
The Trent Lott story lasted for weeks and killed his attempt to become majority leader again. Anybody want to take bets on whether this has the same effect for Reid?
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Well, file your hope under a dream.
On its merit it has legs but so does a bullfrog and the bastard won’t walk. This story will hop right out of the news by Monday.
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Obama has already accepted Harry’s apology, so that should put everything to rest in the MSM’s mind.
Bastards.
It isn’t over ’til the “fat lady” sings, gentlemen. From what I gather out of Nevada, Reid is purdy much wiped out….
Which is why the sordid details were released on a weekend, when nobody gives a rat’s rip about news. The MSM will claim they have dutifully done their job and move on.