And you are underestimating their arrogance. This the party that got away with financing the Clintons with red Chinese money.
They had Hamas boiler room phone banks funneling huge sums to Obamas campaign. They STILL take foreign money though it is blatantly illegal.
They were caught on wikileaks blackmailing and threatening many small nations dependent on US aid to support the Copenhagen climate change treaty.
This is the party that told Medvedev that Obama would give them what they wanted, but he had to wait until AFTER reelection.
Plots and schemes like this are the breat and butter of the democrats. They don’t care if it looks blatantly manipulated. Honestly, i think they like it. It’s their way of giving us the finger.
Maybe the “obscene gesture” theory makes the most sense of all.