News Flash: Pot calls the Kettle Black

Hey people, lay off the negative smear campaigns and dirty tricks (like the allegations about Senator Kerry's 'girlfriend'). Republicans are bound to be upset at what they have unleashed: Larry Flynt claims he has some dirt on George W. Bush (from Lloyd Grove's Lowdown in the New York Daily News):

Activist rocker Moby raised Republican hackles last week when he advised President Bush's enemies to engage in political mischief.

Moby told my fellow gossips Rush & Molloy: 'For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.'

Now the incorrigible Larry Flynt says he plans to market a Bush abortion story as genuine - in a book to be published this summer by Kensington Press.

"This story has got to come out," the wheelchair-bound Hustler magazine honcho told the Daily News' Corky Siemaszko. "There's a lot of hypocrisy in the White House about this whole abortion issue."

Flynt claimed that Bush arranged for the procedure in the early '70s.

"I've talked to the woman's friends," Flynt said. "I've tracked down the doctor who did the abortion, I tracked down the Bush people who arranged for the abortion," Flynt said. "I got the story nailed."

Flynt wouldn't disclose whether he plans to name the woman.

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie - who in a speech last week accused "Kerry campaign supporters," not just Moby, of hatching the Internet chat room scheme - was unavailable for comment on Flynt's charges.

But RNC spokesman Yier Shi told me: "The Democrats will do anything in this election, judging by their campaign tactics, to smear without any evidence or background. This is just another one of those cases."

Of course, if allegations like this are true, they are another nail in Bush's re-election coffin. To me, the Democrats have a great shot at winning the Presidency as long as leftist kooks like Ralph Nader (not a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats?) stay out of the race. I am more doubtful about the House and Senate. But divided government is probably best--let's hear it for gridlock!