My thinking is this:
The clinton machine was planning to spring the Foley hit closer to the election to maximize its effect and minimize the probability of mitigation by the GOP or random events.
But then "The Path to 9/11" and Chris Wallace started the clinton 9/11 malpractice and malfeasance story... and clinton's stupid actions and reactions to each only caused the story to grow. Exponentially.
At that point panic gripped the clinton camp and the clintons decided to release the Foley hit piece early. They had nothing else to stop the hemorrhaging and to hell with a Democrat majority. (As a matter of fact, an argument can be made that it would be better for hillary in 2008 if the Ds do NOT win control of either house.)
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Yeah, I see your point. If they win control of the House now, how do Beast and Pelosi credibly restrain the Deaniacs from using the power of the purse to deepsix the WoT and force the President to bring all our troops home, leaving NATO, the Iraqis, and PM Karzai's government in the lurch? Musharraf would be dead within weeks of a 'Rat demarche, and we'd be looking at running the clock down to the fulfilment of Osama's "American Hiroshima" scenario.
That would put Beast in a bind before she had the thing she wanted, with which to do anything about all of this.
The left-wingers could conceivably wreck our future even before she got the nomination, thereby imperiling her run.
no way Hillary can go into 2008 with Reid and Pelosi in the leadership--ken5050
Maybe it was hillary clinton who fed the Reid story to the AP. The timing, especially, was curious, given the AP's leftist sensibilities. Seems hillary would be killing 2 birds with one stone with that one....