Hillary Supporters for McCain: A Democratic False Flag Op?

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One of the more clever political tricks to play is the "false flag" operation. It's really simple: you get a bunch of people to pretend to be on the other side of your position, and set them up so they look like a legitimate outfit. Then you get the group to either attract opposing activists, and corral them into doing nothing substantive, or make such fools of themselves that anyone who might possibly be on the fence will leap back to your side of things if only to avoid being associated with... THEM.

It's a clever tactic, and time-honored. In fact, I've often suspected David Horowitz's "Frontpage" to be a long-term false flag, perpetrated on his behalf (along with many unwitting accomplices) to make conservatives look really, really bad. How else could you explain the inanity that tumbles out of his bullcrap mill every day?

(On the other hand, maybe he really just is that loopy.)

But what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And, in this season of wild accusations without much proof ("Lucille" the waitress on one side, Larry Sinclair on the other, Trig Palin's parentage in-between) I have an unfounded suspicion of my own.

To wit: the various Democrats Opposing Obama for McCain (DOOM) outfits, while they might be made up of individual stupid people, are being handled and groomed, though maybe not funded, by Democratic operatives in the hopes of preventing said stupid people from doing anything REALLY harmful to the campaign.

Quite a mouthful, I know. Also quite a theory! What do I have to prove this? Nothing. Just a bad, bad feeling.

But...

Watch this video of Chris "Tweetybird" Matthews talking to people claiming to be from Clintons 4 McCain. And keep an eye on the Anne Coulter impersonator in the middle.

Okay, now, you're probably wanting to burn that out of your mind. But think about this: the garbage that "Anne" is spewing -- how many active, well-informed Democrats do you know of that would really buy into that kind of tripe? The story itself has been researched, debunked, and turned into near-meaningless vapor, circulated only by the likes of Robert "Islam=terror" Spencer and company in the hopes of remaining relevant during the 2008 election cycle.

In other words, if they were hoping to get on national television and present something of a coherent argument as to why they should vote for John McCain rather than Barack Obama, they failed miserably.

And then there's Party Unity My Ass (PUMA) Or Party Unity Means Action, depending on which graphic you prefer to look at.

One of their head honchos, Will Bower, got on FOX News to explain his side of things. About 1:37 in, the real question is asked: "Why? Why would your group want to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama. On issues, they're just about diametrically opposed on every issue?"

Will's answer is... no answer. He points out that, yes, not all PUMAs will vote for John McCain. But then he rambles about having faith in what Obama would do, versus what he says, which is always a good point to make about any politician. However, he neglects to think about the important point that underlies his own: which candidate would be more likely to do what your average Democrat would want him to do -- McCain or Obama?

(FOX News, of course, neglects to point that out, much less call him on his evasions.)

Darragh Murphy, Executive Director of PUMA PAC, told a reporter that "the only way to save the Democratic Party at this point is to destroy it. Mr. Obama must lose, and his supporters must be purged."

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J. Edward Tremlett is a lot of things, currently. He's back in the states after a seven-year stint in Dubai, UAE. He's been published in such diverse places as The American Partisan, the International American, The End is Nigh, Pyramid (more...)

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