July 20, 2004
Regergentation
David Gergen, triple-chinned turncoat non-event, has burbled that the Berger absconding of secret documents was just "sloppiness". "I think it's more innocent than it looks," said Gergen.
Now, I won't argue with Gergen on one point. The man's bolt to the Clinton White House from the Republican Party exemplifies sloppiness. He should know it in and out. Gergen's move spake of opportunism writ large, and naked young interns, and complete disavowal of principles, and, worst of all, no game plan. No back door. Gergen bolted like a filly in heat to the land of power and soundbites.
I understand opportunism, especially in DC, but Gergen didn't have a clue. In contrast Dick Morris is an opportunist extraordinaire. He is a classic whore for hire. But he brings something to the table: to wit, the ability to peel back your opponent's weaknesses, and figure out how to win. I can appreciate that, even as I disagree with Morris's takes on issues. He was, after all, not right all the time.
Gergen, I think, thought he was going to be the Policy Wonk ordained as Roman Senator. Fed grapes and young females, while he blathered nonsense.
That foolish man never brought beans to the table. He is as clueless as a tuna.
On to Sandy Berger: National Security Advisor is an incredibly important job. Ask Condi Rice. She has a lynch mob circling her daily. Also, I read Tom Clancy novels. If Jack Ryan was NSA at one point then by God it must be an important job.
Seriously, though, what Berger did, as the professional pol he is, and he is a politician, you are always ultimately a politician at that level, is so incredibly stupid, or desperate, that one can only shake their head at this point and ask "What the Hell?"
Stupid Stupid Stupid. Or: Desperate Desperate Desperate.
I'm Sandy Berger there would have to be a big gun at the back of my head to make me do something that fucking dumb. Or a little gun. Guns is guns where my medulla oblongata is concerned.
Other than that I have no idea.