Out on a limb

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I believe that the reason the memos have been such a train wreck is that CBS/Rather and the DNC are tied together at the hip.

What this looks like to me is a plan that couldn't be stopped for logistical reasons (no plan B).

In the real world it would be:

1. Documents found
2. Documents vetted
3. Political action

This train can be stopped if the documents don't check out.

But the Dems are short of time so what do they do?

1. Documents found
2. Political action
3. Documents vetted

This train can not be stopped if the documents don't check out.

Which would tend to show collusion. Rather has to go down with the ship to keep the Dems from looking like complete fools. Even if only for another few days. He has to stand by the docs. Otherwise the Dems just go down faster. Well as B.H.L. Hart points out - in such circumstances the defeat is more complete.

tvd said in the comments to this entry...

Remember "The War Room," the documentary on Clinton's 1992 campaign? Carville tries to place a story with a contact at...tada!...CBS.

(Only on that one, CBS actually vetted it and decided not to go with it...)