Lordy, lordy.

So, Karl Rove is feeling frisky. He has found the opening to stir up just enough antipathy toward any position that is not “stay the course”, ie: “They want to cut and run”. But how to shore up a bit of support for the war in and of itself and show that going in was worthwhile anyways, at least amongst a couple voting blocks — and to various degrees.

The information is garbage, of couse. We have a page of the report that points to the canisters of decayed chemical weapons dating back from before the Gulf War of the George Herbert Walker Bush Administration, rolling around Iraq still to this day.

Rick Santorum is the perfect conduit to relay this, for reportage on Fox News and right wing radio. He is a sacrifical lamb at this point. Nobody believes he is going to defeat Bob Casey, Jr this November. The idea of floating out the startling revelations of discovered weapons of mass destruction in a hyped up press conference is to stir the sure-headedness of the true believer (that CNN and everyone else is not touching the story just goes to show their liberal bias), and to sow a bit of doubt in the minds of a few noncommitals. Imagine the storied water cooler. The Right wing blowhard pounces about that “Weapons of Mass Destruction have been discovered after all!” The largely apolitical loaf shrugs, and digests it as “Sure. Possibly.”

Hey! It works with Global Warming.

It short-circuits Rick Santorum’s credibility. He’s currently 18 percentage points behind Casey in his race for re-election, a gap that has grown. This little fiasco is probably worth a couple more points — an even 20 point race. The analogy for Santorum is the Swift Boat bunch. They did Kerry a lot of harm, but I’m pretty sure a poll rating of John O’Neal would show the majority of Americans find him untrustworthy. It’s a strange double-backed paradox. (Consider too that Katherine Harris is getting nowhere in her bid for the Senate seat in Florida.)

But Rick Santorum has been written away as dead, and thus… use him.

Did Rick Santorum believe his own press conference?

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