Left-Wing Conspiracy Nuts
By Michael Reagan
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 18, 2003


If the Democrats who spent years making fun of conservatives by
ridiculing them as right wing conspiracy nuts look up they will see a
fleet of black helicopters hovering overhead.

The desperation of a party coming apart at the seams is now in full
public view, and as the panic sets in, Democrats are grasping at
wafer-thin conspiracy straws. In recent days Americans have been
treated with a spectacle of top members of the party coming unhinged
and seeing monsters under their beds.

• Rep. James McDermott, a Washington state Democrat who angered
the nation by standing on Iraqi soil and attacking the U.S before the
war began, now imagines that the U.S. could have nabbed Saddam Hussein
"a long time ago" if we had wanted to. He told KIRO radio station in
Seattle that there were people in the administration "all along who
knew basically" where the dictator was.

"I've been surprised they waited, but then I thought, well,
politically, it probably doesn't make much sense to find him just
yet," he said adding "There's too much by happenstance for it to be
just a coincidental thing that it happened on this particular day."
When asked if he thought the timing of the capture was meant to help
President Bush, McDermott laughed and said: "Yeah. Oh, yeah."

• Former Clinton Secretary of State Madeline Albright joined the
black helicopter watch when she asked reporter Mort Kondracke if he
believed that President Bush has already nabbed Osama Bin Laden and
has him stashed away somewhere, planning to spring him on the nation
at a politically opportune time before the November elections.

When Kondracke said "You can't seriously believe that," she replied
that such an "October surprise" was "a possibility." Now she's trying
to back down, saying she was only kidding, but Kondracke stands by his
story and is backed up by two witnesses who insist she was dead
serious when she slipped her moorings and drifted into Cloud Cuckoo
land.

• Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean has seriously suggested
that President Bush was alerted to 9/11 before it happened. Speaking
on National Public Radio (where else?) Dec. 1, he created a new
conspiracy theory by suggesting that George W. Bush ignored alleged
Saudi Arabian warnings of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And when he
appeared on Fox News Sunday Dec. 7th, he declined to disavow the
absurd rumor or apologize for having spread it.

That all of this garbage has sprung from the fevered brains of leading
Democrats is simply a sign of the panic inspired by the dramatic
resurgence of the economy, the Republicans' successful co-option of
the potent Medicare issue, and the capture of Saddam Hussein. They had
pinned their hopes on the economic collapse they were praying for and
watched in horror as the economy rebounded. They relied on the mantra
that Saddam was still free and why hasn't Bush caught him, and watched
in open-mouthed shock as U.S. soldiers dug him out of his rat hole.

Their reaction to the quagmire they have managed to fall into has been
a retreat into the world of fantasy poor Hillary Clinton discovered
when she sought to cope with all the disclosures of her husband's
sordid conduct. She blamed it all not on her husband, but on that vast
right wing conspiracy which somehow had been able to cause him to drop
his pants at the very sight of Monica Lewinsky. It is the predictable
reaction of the discredited Left.