Centerfield

Good post!

Okay, it's confession time...lol. I will confess to e-mailing Raw Story (who has kept this story going) about two weeks ago after following their links that compared the memo with a Martinez press release. Call it gut instinct, but I knew Mel Martinez's office had written this memo. His staff has a history of doing particularly under-handed nasty things, and he later claiming complete ignorance.

During the primary, his staff sent out a last-minute mailing that called his (extremely) conservative primary opponent a tool of the "radical homosexual agenda." They held conference calls and ripped the man (Bill McCollum) to shreds. Martinez, in keeping with his innocent demeanor, claimed no knowlege.

Because that staff stayed on, I knew it was a matter of time before they struck again. Now Martinez's staff is exposed for targeting a man (Bill Nelson) who has been a good friend of Martinez's for years--in fact, they live in the same Orlando neighborhood and have campaigned for each other in the past.

What does this say about Martinez? He's not the brightest tool in the shed if he's passing off memos like this. I have a friend who refers to him as the "male Paula Hawkins." (For those not from Florida, she was a one-term Senator swept in during the Reagan Revolution. She was somewhat of a ditz--something the voters figured out pretty quickly.) Martinez could very well be a one-termer. For one thing, they certainly won't be sharing secret strategy with someone who can't even hold onto a memo...lol!

The Washington Times, a conservative Bush mouthpiece here, had a headline the other day suggesting the memo was a fake. I wonder if it will be issuing a retraction.

Read the article in the paper today. Got to hand it to Mr Martinez, he was asked for "talking points" by Tom Harkin and he got "talking points". Clearly there's been a lot of "talking" since then.

There was a reason I didn't blog this earlier...mainly, that judging from the text, it was obviously written by an idiot. To boot, it had to have been passed on by an idiot. There was NO evidence as to origin, so deciding which particular idiots were involved was a fool's game without some evidence.

Now we know which idiots. Martinez is claiming ignorance, that he passed it on not knowing what it was, thinking it was something else. I guess he figures being caught at being ignorant is marginally better than being caught at being stupid.

I guess he figures being caught at being ignorant is marginally better than being caught at being stupid.