Bob Dole on Scott McClellan

I'm loving it:

Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding e-mail to Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a "miserable creature" who greedily betrayed his former patron for a fast buck.

In an extraordinary message obtained and authenticated by Politico, Dole uses his trademark biting wit to portray McClellan as a classic Washington opportunist.

"There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues," Dole wrote in a message sent yesterday morning. "No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits and, spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique."

Michael Marshall, Dole's spokesman and colleague at the Alston Bird law firm, confirms the message came from the former senator and presidential candidate.   "Yes, it is authentic," Marshall wrote in an e-mail.

"In my nearly 36 years of public service I've known of a few like you," Dole writes, recounting his years representing Kansas in the House and Senate.  "No doubt you will 'clean up' as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, 'Biting The Hand That Fed Me.' Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years"

That friends is quintessential brutal honesty.

H/T Michelle for the Dole find and to Mick Wright for summing up the McClellan shenanigans nicely:

It occurs to me that Scott McClellan is the Jimmy Carter of White House press secretaries — totally incompetent while in the job and an utter disgrace afterwards. Accordingly, he was replaced by Tony Snow, the Ronald Reagan of White House press secretaries — positively transformative while in the job, graceful in his exit, fearless in staring down a malady, and deeply missed.

Comments

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What's fascinating about all of these attacks on McClellan is no one has taken on the veracity of what he said only that he's saying stuff.

But you they really can't argue with the message so best to go after the messenger.

Too bad we didn't have President Dole - we would have avoided that total humiliation thing the Clintons gave us.

And maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened. Or 1993 WTC. Or anything else.

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Yeah Clinton sure was President for 9-11 and good thing Bush caught and jailed all the 1993 WTC bombers, could you imagine if he had let them get away with it?!?

Oh wait a second, that's not what happened at all!