If indictments come down, how long before the RW savages Fitzgerald?

[TheCowsCameHome]

It will be interesting to see how long the RW waits before raking Patrick Fitzgerald over the coals when the indictments come down. Right now virtually everyone sees him as a straight shooter with no political bias. But you can be sure once these creeps on the right get charged with crimes the RW talking heads will try to paint him as a left-wing hack that was on a witch hunt.

A few months ago someone asked Sean Hannity if he would simply accept Fitzpatrick's findings, either way, based on the fact he was regarded by most as an unbiased, well-respected US attorney. Hannity grunted that he would, but you know he didn't mean it.

My prediction is the RW will go crazy trying to discredit Fitzgerald and his decisions, even if the charges stick.

[Greeby]

1. umm, 5 seconds after the initial news report?

They work fast

[Lancer]

2. That would be Pure-T sluggish! n/t

[warrens]

19. I think it can be measured in nano-seconds

How long does it take to bleat?

[ed murrow]

3. Already in the pipeline

I am sure they have a dossier reday to go

I just saw my first commercial attacking Ronnie Earle this morning...the attack ad is the Robitussin of the Republican party

Like Chris Rosk says it will fix anything

Ethically challenged...put so more Tussin on it

[ed murrow]

4. Already in the pipeline

Chris Rock...I meant

[bunny planet]

17. nice Tussin reference.

:rofl:

[Justice]

5. Challenging

Bush praised Fitzgerald just a few weeks ago. Fitzgerald was appointed by Bush - harder to discredit Fitzgerald b/c he is someone they put in power. They will try to discredit Earle b/c he is a Democrat.

[Lerkfish]

6. they're already doing that, as far as I can tell.

more under the table, by criticizing the process as flawed, or the crimes as nothing to worry about. That is a backhanded way of trying to marginalize Fitzgerald's integrity without actually saying it.

[grytpype]

7. I'm sure the blast faxes have already gone out.

And let me guess what they said (based on the recent profiles of him in the media):

1. He is a slob, he has half-eaten pizzas all over his office and he keeps his gym clothes in his desk drawer.

2. He is unmarried at age 47 so he is either a homo or a weird loner.

3. He has a bad haircut.

4. He is a crazy out of control partisan fruitcake who is trying to bring down our Commander in Chief.

[cassiepriam]

8. Already started. Judy to newsweek reporter made covert threat to Fitz.

Indicating slime machine had already started.

[Catrina]

9. I don't think it will work

The country is already worried about this administration. Everyone is suffering financially, their response to Katrina really shocked people regarding them being the 'national security' administration, which was their strongest (though ridiculous) claim.

If the indictments are serious enough, a lot of Republicans will jump ship anyway, not wanting to risk being tainted in the upcoming, probably years long, trials and maybe further investigations.

They are already calling Fitzpatrick a zealot. But even rightwingers have said it's going to be difficult to smear him.

I agree they'll probably throw the 'he's gay' accusation around. But I think people will not care. They've over-used all their dirty tricks now. The country is getting tired of no results, no answers, just personal attacks on anyone who criticizes them.

I may be wrong, but the Republicans I know who voted for him have turned a corner and won't go back because they attack the prosecutor.

Besides, Delay is already doing that, and it's going to look like these people can't answer the charges against so they resort to going after prosecutors.

And, there's still the Abramoff affair and the Spies in the Pentagon case, two different prosecutors and cases in which many of the same players are involved. All these prosecutors can't be just out to get them all.

That's going to be my response to them if they try that. 'So, first the Delay prosecutor, now the Plame prosecutor. What about the Abramoff prosecutor and the Spies in the Pentagon affair? How about the Frist prosecutor?

As Shakespeare said 'if music be the food of love play on, give me excess of it, that surfeiting the appetite may sicken and so die'. I think they've worn out the 'attack the messenger' tactic.

[cassiepriam]

11. I hope you are right! They will try the Delay strategy.

Blame the prosecutor, the judge, whoever.

[Coastie for Truth]

10. Fractions of a pico second

Faster then Harold "Doc" Edgerton could have imagined when he invented the stroboscope to analyze three phase AC electric motors.---
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[Jim__]

12. The blink of an eye - n/t

[mnmoderatedem]

13. they would have already

if they had anything to actually savage him WITH.

Everything I've read about this guy indicates he comes out clean and non partisan.

[Pathwalker]

14. They've already started. Vicky Toensing is braying

about his "utter lack of judgement" - does this count?

[Zynx]

15. It will be faster than a hummingbird can flap its wings.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

16. Physics

Someone once tried to calculate the shortest interval of time -- the time it took for the fastest thing (a photon moving at the speed of light) to cross the smallest distance (the diameter of an electron).

The RW would lap it like a turtle.

[Norquist Nemesis]

18. Already started. They're claiming unless the indictment is

about 'outing a covert CIA agent', then any other charge is an act of unprincipled, unethical, muckraking for the sake of making a charge.

The thing is, immediately after they speak of the 'outing', they follow up and insert any one or all of the Wilson's a liar, Wilson's wife was not covert so no one broke the law, the WH had every right to defend itself against lies and baseless attacks, etc. So, by putting the "debate" in the frame of it being outing a covert CIA agent (which is how everything originally started) and sticking to that, all other things are extraneous and outside the bounds of what Fitzgerald should be rooting out.

[librechik]

20. set your Bat Watch to 5 minutes after the announcement.

[Catherine Vincent]

21. And if he doesn't indict?

:-)