[BigWest]

The hooker is one thing, but what did Beckel ever do to deserve any political respect?
Lessee, he managed Texas for Jimmy Carter against Ronnie R. in '80.
Result?
Texas went to RR by more than 10 points.
He then got promoted to an even higher level of incompetence and managed Fritz Mondale's national campaign in '84 again against Ronnie.
Result?
Mondale carried ONLY his home state of Minn. and that only by a hair.
What did this guy ever do beside have a big mouth?(Besides hiring hookers of course.) I have no idea why a rich guy like Alan Blinken--the rich Wall Street internationalist who lives in DC but bought a house in Sun Valley, Idaho and then decided to run against Larry Craig--would hire a guy like this.
Of course Beckel has now resigned. I guess his shenanigans won't play well in the heavily Mormon areas of South and Southeast ID areas.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Beckel was also the prime mover behind the effort to get Bush-committed electors to switch to Gore in the mess of late '00.