The nimrods who ran the 2004 Swift Boat campaign were apparently co-conspirators in this week’s biggest viral fail by Sideshow Ed Whelan, the GOP’s “go-to” guy to wrangle judicial appointments.
It takes a company of RWNJs to deflect from the possibility that Orrin Hatch may have been circumstantially involved with Ed Whelan’s attempt to frame a high school classmate (an “unrelated private citizen”) of Brett Kavanaugh with a rape attempt.
CRC, however, was right there with him all along.
On Friday, hours after Whelan called his decision to name and post photographs of Kavanaugh’s high school classmate “an appalling an inexcusable mistake of judgment,” CRC helped organize a news conference featuring an array of women who dismissed Ford’s allegations.
Best known for its work with the Swift Boat Veterans in 2004, CRC bills itself as a full-service communications firm “specializing in media relations, social media and issues management,” according to its website. It has long been the go-to communications firm for conservative organizations in Washington and across the country. Its current clients include the Federalist Society and the Judicial Crisis Network, the chief outside groups working to help confirm Kavanaugh.
After unsuccessful attempts to persuade reporters to chase down a theory he put forward on Twitter — that the high school party described by Ford may have taken place at the home of a particular high school classmate of Kavanaugh’s, and that that classmate may have been the perpetrator of the alleged attack — Whelan worked with CRC's Mueller to devise a strategy that would draw attention to his theory, according to two sources familiar with his plans. That involved teasing the idea that he would make a big reveal but remaining mysteriously tight-lipped about what he had uncovered.
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It is unclear to what extent Whelan was coordinating with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and other Republicans on Capitol Hill. He was in communication with at least one Republican member of the committee this week, and that member told associates he was aware Whelan’s theory involved the home of a Kavanaugh classmate near the Chevy Chase Country Club.
Matt Whitlock, deputy chief of staff to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah), directed people to Whelan’s Twitter feed on Wednesday in a tweet of his own and later deleted his tweet.
“Keep an eye on Ed’s tweets the next few days,” Whitlock wrote.
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In a tweet, Whelan first said that Kavanaugh would be "clearly vindicated" within a week. He went on to say that he expected Dianne Feinstein to apologize to Brett Kavanaugh before he sailed to confirmation.
POLITICO went on to report that "three people who have spoke to Whelan and Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo in recent days say they are '100 percent confident' they’ve obtained information that will exonerate Kavanaugh."
Thursday afternoon, Whelan dropped the second tranche of his "theory" in the form of a very long Twitter thread, which Maddow addressed at the end of her show. In the thread, he suggested that it was actually another classmate who somewhat resembled Kavanaugh, then went on to post blueprints of a home he guessed this other person lived in to show that her description of the house matched this house.
And then he posted a picture of the other person. And he named him. He is a middle school teacher.
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More interesting is that somehow Ed Whelan had advance information about Dr. Ford:
Meanwhile the WH tries to manufacture something, something… Deep State and Rod Rosenstein, even if he got appointed by Lord Dampnut.