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Octobers are Made for Surprises

Every good partisan likes an October Surprise, if it skews for them. I know I do. As I watch the Democrats pull every sleazy Dick Tuck in the book, and the olliphonts sit back and seemingly take it, I grow dispirited.

And yet: if the best the Democrats can come up with this late in the game is some errant uber-gunpowder, I take heart. And let's face it: Bush has been splayed and quartered for 5 years. I honestly think that's all the arrows they have in their quivers.

On the other hand, there is a lot of subterranean mumbling about Kerry's discharge status. Mumbling he could have easily disposed of months ago with a full form 180 disclosure. One thing I do know, about candidates, and people in general: if they don't want to share, they want to hide.

So I'm figuring Karl "The Truth" Rove is sitting by some gas logs in a nice Georgetown brownstone, single malt at hand, and examining a copy of a general discharge for one reserve officer John Kerry, and pursing his lips. He will also have a corroborating letter from a Navy Captain explaining why Mr. Kerry received a general discharge instead of an honorable one, and references to certain Viet Cong "diplomats".

Then Karl will drain his Scotch, and call for his best boy Gaspar. Washington Times and USA Today. Monday morning. Make it happen or I'll ship your ass back to Guayaquil on the next fucking Air America flight.

Karl has a plan. That is my conjecture.