With the mainstream media on their side, the Democrats will get a slide on this one, assuming the alleged "outing" is in fact true. The hypocrisy of the Democrats will be evidently clear. Remember Kerry's plea to the President regarding the Plame Incident?

...we need to stand up against this White House and make it clear we will not tolerate endangering the life of an intelligence agent of the United States for purposes of political revenge. One Republican source was quoted just a few days ago as saying that their defense to this scandal was to slime and defame.

Well, I say to George W. Bush, Mr. President, it's time to come clean. Slime is not a way to restore honor and integrity to the White House of the United States.

Isn't it funny how your own words can come back to haunt you? Let's also look at the words of former presidential candidate, now DNC Chairman Howard Dean.

“If the president and his people are true patriots, then will stand up and ask the people who unveiled the name publicly of a CIA agent to resign right now.”

Now, isn't this rich? I doubt Howard Dean will demand for John Kerry to resign "right now" if the outing is confirmed. Perhaps Kerry and Dean will say, "those quotes are being taken out of context." Again, words can come back to haunt. At the confirmation hearing yesterday, Kerry confronted John Bolton about some choice quotes of his, to which Bolton said they were "being taken out of context." Kerry, snidely told him that they were indeed his [Bolton's] words. For Kerry to dismiss the notion of words being taken out of context is just asinine. ABCNews ran a whole story about Kerry quotes being taken out of context (article text via Free Republic). Additionally, a Kerry Campaign spokesman commented on John Kerry's words being taken out of context in a Bush campaign ad on terrorism.

In the magazine article, a largely analytical cover story by Matt Bai, Kerry is asked "what it would take for Americans to feel safe again."

''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' the article states as the Massachusetts senator's reply.

''As a former law enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''

The Bush-Cheney campaign also announced it was releasing an ad highlighting Kerry's comment.

Reuters reported that the new Bush commercial's script asks "How can Kerry protect us when he doesn't understand the threat?"
Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer called the Republican charges "absolutely ridiculous."

"This is yet another example of the Bush campaign taking John Kerry's words out of context, and then blowing it up into something that is nothing," he said.

We'll see how this story pans out... if infact, it turns out a CIA agent was outed. Michelle Malkin says no...