Reply #5: There is blowback to that theory

[MADem]

If the monkey is rejected, it makes him look weak and lame. No one will have any sympathy for him, they will just want him to hurry up and finish up his second term, because he will be viewed as having gone past his sell-by date.

I will say, though, now that monkey has picked Miss You are So Cool/Best Ever Harriet, he could be fanning the flames of the controversy to eat up air time--turning a negative into a slightly less negative. If the talking heads are talking about Harriet's mash notes, her childish eighth grader wardrobe and home cut bangs, her ambiguous sex life, and other piddling little details, they are not talking about frog marches.

It is all about the news cycle--the day is a pie being fed to voracious couch potatoes, and there are only so many slices to allocate.

He could be hoping that if the Harriet slice is huge, the Rove/Libby slice will be a sliver. If another young blonde white woman goes missing, he will be in hog heaven....