'Preposterous'

Don't you wish you could say you were surprised?

Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.

The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 — as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.

The national Republican Party, which paid millions in legal bills to defend Tobin, says the contacts involved routine election business and that it was "preposterous" to suggest the calls involved phone jamming.

Yeah, accusing a political party whose officials disenfranchised opposition voters by preparing a list of felons that was designed to include several false matches and is requiring counties across the country to buy touch-screen voting machines that just happen to be easy as pie to hack of jamming phone lines to disrupt an opponent's get-out-the-vote effort is in no way based on rational thought. And to believe that the party's paying millions in legal bills to defend those accused in the incident somehow makes such allegations more credible just shows a lack of plain ol' common sense.

It's the O.J. strategy -- no matter how conclusive the evidence agaisnt you, admit nothing; no matter how ridiculous you sound, deny everything.