by Mike Huckabee: If you're sick of hearing about the U.S. Senate run-off election in Georgia –- which looks at this point like a sad replay of the Nov. 3 election in Georgia, complete with late night shut-downs, Dominion crashes and poll-watcher evictions –- I have a fascinating article for you, but it's not exactly going to make you feel better. It will, however, make you smarter. Never again will you be taken by surprise when some negative information about a nominee or candidate is suddenly "found" or just appears out of nowhere. This article is about the calculated nature of "oppo research," showing just how far it's been taken in today's political culture, and, most disconcerting of all, the eagerness Kamala Harris has displayed in using it. She's shown that she's quite fond of using dirt, even totally made-up dirt, to ruin people.
I've always said you shouldn't go into politics unless you can stand the sight of your own blood, and oppo research has been around forever, of course, But today, it's routinely taken to the tenth power, especially by the hysterical left, who are right at home with the concept of total personal destruction. Who knows how many great people have been intimidated from running for office or taking a judgeship or cabinet position because they can't stand the thought of going through what, say, Brett Kavanaugh went through?
As it happens, of all the candidates vying to be Joe Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris spent "more on oppo research than anyone has ever seen," according to Federal Election Commission records. She hired a man known in the industry as "Dr. Death," a.k.a. Averell "Ace" Smith, who also has worked his black magic over the years for Chicago mayor Richard Daley, Texas Gov. Ann Richards, Barbara Boxer, Howard Dean, Dianne Feinstein, the Clintons and many more.
It was "Dr. Death" who appeared at a book party with Kamala in July 2018, just weeks after Brett Kavanaugh was nominated for the Supreme Court –- that timing, as you'll see, is significant –- and proudly introduced him as "the father of oppo research."
Apparently, no one equals this guy when it comes to dirt-digging. His reputation precedes him everywhere he goes, and politicians are justifiably terrified of him. "I've seen him walk into a room, and the opposition candidate will literally start mumbling," former Democrat strategist Clint Reilly is quoted as saying.
Reading this, one can't help but think there is surely no corruption involving the Bidens that Kamala Harris doesn't already know all about. How she and the powers behind her will use it, and when, is anyone's guess, but I don't think it will take long. If Biden did have anything to do with the selection of Harris as his running mate, that in itself is testimony to his own lack of mental acuity, as having her in that spot is certainly not in his own interest. On the other hand, maybe he's aware of this but has no choice, given what she knows. If that's the case, and he manages to get inaugurated on the 20th, he'll have to continue doing exactly what she and the people behind her want.
Though Harris stood beside him to get where she wanted to go, the idea that she might have any fidelity whatsoever to him is laughable, especially in light of what she said in support of women who have accused him of sexual impropriety. We're all supposed to forget that now, but the internet is forever.
The article about "Dr. Death" and Kamala's use of oppo research was written by Mark Judge, who was the friend of Kavanaugh's that Christine Blasey Ford named during her testimony, saying he was in the room when Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her at a party in 1982 and witnessed this event before stepping in to break things up. Judge was interested in how, less than 24 hours after the story broke in the WASHINGTON POST, a very long and richly detailed "exclusive" story appeared in the DAILY MAIL about the culture at their high school, Georgetown Prep. Impossibly, there it was, appearing out of the blue fully formed, with quotes from books Judge had written and pictures he had posted on Twitter and Facebook months before.
"How did a slimy local D.C. lawyer have a copy of our 1983 yearbook?" Judge wondered. "Why was he ready to pore through it with passages highlighted with post-it notes, on a local news station, just one day after the Ford story broke?"
At the same time, Ford's own yearbook had been scrubbed from media coverage and most online searches. All this takes expert, long-range planning. A team of high-powered pros had to have been working on this from the moment Kavanaugh's name was even mentioned as a prospective Supreme Court nominee. No doubt they had "dossiers" prepared on EVERY prospective conservative nominee.
Apparently, Ford herself was in on the planning, using an oppo research "professional" herself for weeks leading up to Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings. We know his name: Keith Koegler. He's profiled in the book THE EDUCATION OF BRETT KAVANAUGH, by former WASHINGTON EXAMINER Supreme Court reporter Ryan Lovelace.
It's hard even to find the words to communicate how toxic this process was. I would add that the work takes hours and hours of digging and strategizing and is no doubt very expensive. It would be interesting to know where the money came from to pay Koegler. Surely Ford didn't pay for his services herself.
At the time she was positioning herself to be Biden's running mate, then-Sen. Harris showed the political stuff she was made of and displayed remarkable initiative by using oppo research herself to target Kavanaugh. Way to impress the Democrat machine! Two days before the Senate confirmation hearings began, Harris's staff turned over to Senate investigators a letter from a "Jane Doe" in Oceanside, California, claiming that Kavanaugh and a friend had raped her. The claim unraveled and turned out to be bogus. A woman named Judy Munro-Leighton identified herself as Ms. Doe and admitted she didn't even know Kavanaugh, saying she'd just participated in this stunt to "get attention."
Given her Hillary-like history of using oppo research to sink others for personal gain, just imagine Kamala's future political life as Biden's second-in-command (and, not long afterwards, first-in-command). Think of how she might weaponize the considerable forces of government to keep her political enemies in line. She seems willing and even eager to do so. Hillary may have been the resident spider of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in her time, but the sticky resources for spiderweb-building are far greater now than they have ever been.
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Mike Huckabee, Morning Edition, January 6, 2021
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