Yahtzee! Ginsberg Out at BC'04

You have to figure that for election lawyers, advising a presidential campaign, especially an incumbent, is the big time. After all, Ginsberg's argument last night was that he simply had to advise SBVT, because there's such a limited pool of lawyers who even do this kind of work.

Given all that, Ginsberg left pretty easily, with barely any kicking and screaming. He didn't even last 18 hours from the time the story broke.

From the AP:  http://tinyurl.com/6zo44

An election lawyer for President Bush who also has been advising a veterans group running TV ads against Democrat John Kerry resigned Wednesday from Bush's campaign.

"I cannot begin to express my sadness that my legal representations have become a distraction from the critical issues at hand in this election," Benjamin Ginsberg wrote in a resignation letter to Bush released by the campaign.

"I feel I cannot let that continue, so I have decided to resign as national counsel to your campaign to ensure that the giving of legal advice to decorated military veterans, which was entirely within the boundaries of the law, doesn't distract from the real issues upon which you and the country should be focusing."

Ginsberg's acknowledgment Tuesday evening that he was providing legal advice to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth marked the second time in days that an individual associated with the Bush-Cheney campaign had been connected to the group, which Kerry accuses of being a front for the Republican incumbent's re-election effort.

Not wanting to "distract from the real issues"? That's some fine parting advice, counselor, even if your client won't take it in 87 billion years.