Of all the smears and epithets directed at Ron Paul by the Giuliani camp and the neocons (or do I repeat myself?), the sleaziest was upchucked by professional opportunist and political chameleon David Gergen, appearing on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360”:
 “I think Rudy Giuliani won the night … [Giuliani] seized a moment when Ron Paul sort of opened up this argument that maybe we had it coming, with 9/11 and Giuliani just jumped into the debate, he disrupted the debate. To just say no, no, that’s not right and I just don’t agree with that. … [I]t was like a minor Nashua moment when Ronald Reagan, you know, seized the microphone, there was a quality here about showing his sort of, not only his anger but strength that I think served him well tonight.”
Ron Paul said no such thing, as is shown here, but that hasn’t stopped the Smear Machine from churning out lies. To say that US government policies in the Middle East provided grist for Osama bin Laden’s mill is not to say that the 3,000-plus people he murdered “had it coming,” as Gergen put it.
Gergen, the sometime Clintonite, is, perhaps, awaiting the call to join Rudy’s inner circle of advisors, where he’ll take his place alongside Bernie Kerik. Whatever the outcome of this ambition, my guess is that Gergen’s ultimate reward will be a reserved spot in the 8th circle of hell, where the souls of “fraudulent counselors” are sent, along with panders and seducers, flatterers, simonists, diviners, barrators, hypocrites, thieves, falsifiers, and makers of discord.
Oh, and, by the way, Giuliani didn’t pay for that microphone — but that hasn’t stopped his supporters from following their Leader’s example and trying to silence Ron Paul.