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I want to thank Edward Shapiro and John McCarthy for their responses to my letter of December 1st that was entitled: “I’m ready for a dose of McCarthyism”. I guess we have differing views of McCarthyism. It’s true that the dictionary definition of McCarthyism equates it with an overzealous witch-hunt (not unlike that against Karl Rove) but in my mind McCarthyism means “an offensive against anti-American activities” and that is what I am ready for a dose of. And please don’t try to engage me in a semantic debate after our previous President argued what the definition of the word “is” is when he lied to Congress. It seems these days it’s in the ear of the beholder. Now that they have done as much damage to President Bush (and our country) as they could, the Liberal zealots have dropped the Valerie Plame fiasco like a hot potato. Funny how the press stopped their coverage the minute that the increasingly popular conservative media outlets exposed Plame and Wilson for the partisan hacks that they are. But not before they got all the political mileage they could out of the big lie. They’re like Guerilla politicos - create and spread a lie and then make it disappear when it begins to go against them. They milked it for all that is was worth and now that the truth can no longer be suppressed they move on to their next adventure in fictional demagoguery, designed solely to keep Republicans on the defensive. They used Wilson’s propaganda to distract Bush from his agenda. They kept Conservatives on the defensive so as to prevent real progress and growth. They bred distrust among midterm voters who turned their backs on coat-tail Republican candidates across the country. Politics, politics, politics. I’m sure it wasn’t their intention to embolden the Islamic Jihadists but I think I speak for many when I say I’m tired of dealing with their unintended consequences. How many more times will Liberals get away with deflecting their incompetent leadership onto Conservative Republicans before the general public gets wise to their modus operandi? I always thought that the attention paid to the 16 words in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address was more than they warranted. And for Ted Kennedy of all people to be the one to say “Lie after lie after lie after lie” is enough to make a righteous man’s head explode. Let’s ask Ted if he chose to reveal all that he knew about Chappaquiddick (www.ytedk.com). It just goes to show that you can be guilty of manslaughter and never have to answer tough questions if you have “friends” that can use you like a puppet later on. The whole ridiculous stretch of the implication of those 16 words reminded me of Gene Hackman’s dialogue in “The French Connection” where he busts some poor slob who cries that he wasn’t doing anything wrong and that Hackman had nothing to arrest him for. Hackman effectively convinced the guy that he didn’t have to have anything on him and proceeded to make him confess to picking his toes in Poughkeepsie. If you have the power, if in the case of the Bush-haters, you get paid to use ink by the barrel, you can make a mountain out of less than a molehill. What Republicans need now is a Pit Bull of a Conservative who will dig into the Wilson scandal until we find out who orchestrated the lie and its circulation. Who in the CIA took the initiative to send Plame’s husband on his mission to Africa and tried to intimate that he was actually sent by the White House. After all it was only after the White House said “it wasn’t us” and in their defense began looking for the real source that they discovered the Plame connection. Does Valerie Plame or her husband Joe Wilson have ties to Chuck Schumer or Hillary Clinton? Conspiracies like this don’t happen by accident. And speaking of conspiracies, lets not forget about the conspiracy theory that suggests that Bush knew beforehand of the 9/11 attack. Hillary Clinton used to hurl the invective: “What did [President Bush] know and when did he know it?” It was just as irresponsible as the current harangue and its repetition was dropped by the mainstream press only after the public learned via Conservative media, that conflicted 9/11 Commission member and former Clinton Justice Dept. lawyer Jamie Garelick was largely responsible for the suppression of terrorist information. We really need to know what she knew and when she knew it! I take umbrage at Edward Shapiro’s assertion that I don’t seem to have the ability to reason. I have considerable ability in that regard. My arguments are the result of knowledge, experience and introspection. It is true, as Mr. Shapiro states that: “Those who agree with Mr. Crawmer will not be swayed by my remarks” but that’s only because they also have the ability to reason and have drawn the same conclusions. Mr. Shapiro’s remarks, his repetition of sound-bites, his list of “points” gleaned from partisan sources do not constitute reasoning. As for Mr. McCarthy’s question of where I get my opinion of government bureaucrats, it was largely from my tenure at the General Services Administration where incompetent employees got vertical or lateral transfers because they’re impossible to fire. Unlike the very competent former members of the White House Travel Office who, once Clinton took office, were smeared and fired so that their positions could be filled by the Clintons’ partisan cronies. David Crawmer
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