Correction

After blogging that The Conservative Edge removed a post about the Merit System scandal that said conservative thinkers should give up on the "Democrats did it too" defense, Brian from the Edge emailed me and said that it was in their archive.

Their site does not yet have an archive link, but I'll take it on good faith that this is correct.

So what we're looking at is a diversity of opinions at the Conservative Edge, because the "Democrats did it too" defense is still going strong there.

Week after week of this investigation has given me the chance to feel several ways about it. First, it looked bad for Republicans and although I have my Republican sympathies, I wasn't sad to see Keith A. Hall taken down a peg or two. We used to call him Keith U. Haul at Centre. He was a senior when I was a freshman, and my class's student congress president. Prior to orientation, the whole freshman class received a letter from him with a KEITH A. HALL letterhead of montrous proportions. My roommate pledged SAE, Hall's fraternity, so Keith A. came by to visit regularly. It was a drag. So to see him publicly skewered due to his own hubris made me giggle.

But then, well, it just kept going. And for a while, I had my "the Democrats did it too" phase. Because of course they did. Fifty years of one-party rule is going to create some corrupt political pay-offs.

But that phase ended when I realized the Democrats didn't campaign for the moral high ground to "clean up the mess in Frankfort." Not to mention Pence's claim that the Fletcher/Pence administration wouldn't pardon anyone like Patton did. And most importantly, the Democrats didn't get caught.

Now, I just don't care. I'm just watching this game play out like a sporting event. Fletcher's one-two punch of pardons and pleaing the Fifth was a seriously aggressive chess move against the relentless Stumbo attack. Bluegrass Roots has an interesting post on how this gambit may have left Fletcher vulnerable at his flank.