I think everyone is falling for this story waaay too fast.

It is unfolding with Karl Rovian clockwork precision.

1. Ted Haggert has been in daily communication with the White House for years, most likely with Karl himself.

2. Karl's agenda is to re energize the base after a Foley setback.

3. Ted's agenda is to get more members and be crowned the new king of Evangelicals.

4. Place all the blame of the ugly accusation and rumor on godless liberal liars.

5. Get the accuser to take a Poly graph and release the lie dector test results as proof of Ted Haggerts innocence to intensify the effect on Tuesday's election. ###(By the way the accuser took the afore mentioned polygraph within 12 hours of the release of the rumor.)###

6. Get Ted Haggert to give interiews from his car with a camera pointed through the passenger side window where his wife is in the foreground and explain how he was tempted to try crystal meth but threw it away.

7. Who are you going to believe, a drug dealer or a minister?

8. "Reverend Haggert, how did you meet this drug dealer?"
"He was referred by the hotel for massage therapy."


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The only mistake is that I think they pulled the trigger a bit too fast. If I were Rove I would have the polygraph results come out on Sunday rather than Friday.



In the end Ted will have been a martyr redeemed and his faith tested intact. The accuser will be well paid and reviled as the liberal liar and Satan. The Foley mess is thereby fixed, the christian right re energized, and the Diebold election results will show the effect of a backlash against the Democrat dirty trick.