John Hinderaker of PowerLine concedes in
an article published this hour in The Weekly Standard that the Schiavo Memo was not a fake. To his credit, he reverses his claims against the democrats.
The Democrats were thus not guilty, as many of us believed, of creating the memo as a dirty trick.
However, he takes some of the force out of his retraction by asserting that he was right that this memo was not a product of the Republican Congressional leadership. Here the memo becomes again a diversion. Although it remains to be seen how far the memo was disseminated, surely the memo itself was not the problem. In the end, the memo was an indicator of what was already commonly believed among the Republican Congressional leadership. Could there have been anyone among the Republican Congressional leadership who did not understand what elements of Republican strategy were being exercised during the Terri Schiavo intervention?
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