Conspiracy Theory

I'm thinking about floating a conspiracy theory out there via those endlessly forwarded e-mails. It came out this weekend that Homeland Security is studying options for delaying the election should there be a major terrorist attack. Now Jane Harman, the top Demo on the House Intelligence Committee, is calling that excessive. ???? Does anyone remember how this country came to a standstill on September 11? My theory: Democrats are passively hoping for a terrorist attack on election day. The turn out will be automatically depressed. This will hurt both parties, but the Democrats have shown a talent for getting out the vote of the homeless and and poor on election day. These are two groups that would least likely be sitting in front of the tube, watching the coverage of a terrorist attack.

Do I actually believe it? Not really. It is almost impossible to predict the group psychology that would occur that day. But how can you play politics and say that merely planning for the worst is excessive. You know that if we didn't plan for it, and the worst occurred, and Bush won, that it would be made into a huge scandal. Maybe that is what they are hoping for.