Reply #43: Yes. In '92 they pulled this same shit on Jerry Brown

[jgraz]

Brown was nipping at their heels and the Clintons needed a decisive victory in Wisconsin to knock him out of the race. When Bill got busted playing golf at a whites-only country club, it looked like the Clintons were in trouble.

Then, a story surfaced in the Wisconsin press that drug parties had been taking place at Brown's home in California. Nightline reported on it, but said that Brown wasn't there.

That was all the Clintons needed. Hillary went around the state flogging the story and helping to expand it. First it was drugs while Brown wasn't there. Then there were rumors that he was there. Then the parties happened in the Governor's mansion. Then they weren't just parties, but orgies. Then gay orgies. Etc, etc, etc.

The stories were never substantiated, Brown angrily denied them and once the Clintons had squeaked out wins in Wisconsin and New York, the rumors evaporated. Brown had too much class to accuse the Clintons of starting the rumors, but to all of us working on his campaign it was obvious where the bogus information had come from.

Today, we're seeing this same pattern against Obama. We've had kindergarten-paper-gate, anti-war-fairy-tale-gate, his-wife-hates-America-gate, Barack-talked-to-Canada-gate, he's-not as-experienced-as-John-McCain-gate and, finally, let's-scare-the-white-folk-with-a-loud-mouthed-black-man-gate. As the Rev. Wright stuff dies out, Bill is again raising questions about Obama's patriotism. If that doesn't stick, expect them to bring up his teenage drug use. If that doesn't stick, expect some other piece of filth.

This has been the Clintons' MO as long as I've known about them. And don't think they'll let up once the nomination is decided. If Hillary doesn't manage to steal it this year, they're going to make damn sure she has a chance to run in 2012.