THE WOLF IN THE HENHOUSE

Last month TTP gave you a heads up that Hillary, in order to run in 2008, will gut Kerry with an October Surprise. Last week all of Hillary’s players were put in place. She immediately leaked Slick’s advice to Kerry delivered by phone from his hospital so the Clinton-as-guru/Kerry-as-neophyte story dominated the news. She then conned Kerry into inserting a raft of Clintonistas deep into his campaign. Guys like Paul Begala, James Carville, and Joe Lockhart will just make a lot of noise, however. The real player is Hillary’s former chief of staff, Howard Wolfson.

You see stories now about Kerry’s campaign divided into two camps, the Massachusetts crowd who used to run the campaign, led by Mary Beth Cahill (Ted Kennedy’s chief of staff) and the recent addition of John Sasso (Michael Dukakis’s campaign manager in 1988), and the Clintonistas. Many of the media stories focus on the resultant chaos and confusion – not realizing that this is by Hillary’s design.

Hillary is further giving free reign to Carville’s gutter instincts, so that the campaign will hysterically strike out with ineffectual bozo invective about Bush’s National Guard Service or Kitty Kelley tabloid trash. She knows how easily the charges are dismissed (e.g., former Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes claims “the powerful Bush family” pressured him into getting GW into the Texas National Guard to avoid the draft: GW joined in 1968, Barnes became Lt. Gov. in 1969, and the Bush family had no power at all in Yellow Dog Democrat Texas in the 60s; the newly-“discovered” Guard memos are forgeries; Kitty Kelley’s claim that GW snorted cocaine decades ago is based entirely on the totally-denied accusations of Bush brother Neil’s divorced wife Susan).

What the media is clueless about is that Hillary is an agent provocateur. It was so easy for her to hijack Kerry’s campaign right under the candidate’s nose, because Kerry has always lived on Election Easy Street, a Democrat in Massachusetts who has never faced real competition and thus hasn’t a clue on how to run a real campaign against an incumbent who has money and moxie and brains.

It won’t be Howard Wolfson’s job to explain to Kerry how to run his campaign right. It’s his job to submarine it. That’s his assignment from Hillary. All that will go wrong, just as all that has already gone wrong, will be blamed on Mary Beth Cahill’s “incompetence.” As the campaign continues to implode, the media will never catch on to Hillary’s role in the implosion. She will leave no fingerprints, and amidst the wreckage on November 3, Hillary will rise to the role of savior of emotionally devastated Democrats, promising to lead them to the resurrection of their party in 2008.

The Democrats will be rid of the Kerry Albatross in less than two months. The Albatross of Hillary will weigh on their shoulders for years to come.