Now that Hillary Clinton has finally revealed that she broke e-mail protocol for the sake of convenience, CNN can now direct the nation’s fury toward the evil Republicans who sent a letter to the world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism, explaining that President Obama’s deal is as constitutionally strong as Iran’s sincerity in cultivating nuclear energy.
Enter CNN’s David Gergen, who, despite working for the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan Administrations, announced on Tuesday night's Erin Burnett OutFront that he “can't remember an instance in which such a letter has been sent. This much of an interference has been launched from the halls of Congress with the President in the midst of negotiations.”
Surely a man of Gergen’s caliber could have googled key words like “Logan Act” and “Democrats” and “violation.” That might have jogged his memory. He can't remember the "Dear Comandante" letter from Speaker Jim Wright to Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega in 1984?
Rather than recall that, Gergen took the time to inform Republicans that the tide of public opinion was against them, “I think in the judgment of most people it was a bad mistake. It wasn’t illegal but it was a bad mistake to send this letter.”
As if that wasn’t enough, he predicted that the Republicans would be blamed if Obama’s agreement with Iran goes south, “The Iranians may walk away. The deal may fall apart and they’re going to be blamed for that if the Iranian's walk away saying we can't trust the United States.”
The fact that Iran has not trusted the United States since they took over our embassy 35 years ago seems to have been lost on the former presidential adviser.
Finally, Gergen issued the ultimate apocalyptic warning, “if the president doesn’t make it a treaty, we're going to make it a political football in the middle of this next campaign because the Republican opponent, Republican candidate is very likely to argue if he's elected or she is elected, first thing they’re going to do after Obamacare is to get rid of this agreement.”
Behold the real threat to our way of life. No, it’s not the high likelihood of Iran violating the deal. We have to duck and cover in our shelters because this letter gives the right an extra talking point in the election, “creates all sorts of uncertainties in the negotiations” with a habitually dishonest, anti-American regime, and “shows a disrespect for the president, which is ill becoming for Republicans.”
