What did the right-wing bloggers predict about the Plame Affair?

It's always fun to go back and see what the right wingnuts and their talking points had to say about the Plame Affair before the shit hit the fan. Here's what Mitch Berg at www.shotinthedark.com opined awhile back.

"My attitude about the whole Rove flap has been threefold:

1. I sincerely doubted that Rove did anything illegal; Rocketman pretty well guts the notion that Valerie Plame was even a "secret agent", much less a key national security asset during wartime.

2. Since the "Rove Did It!" meme started with Laurence O'Donnell, I figured the odds of it being a legit story and of my getting a hot date with Kate Beckinsale are about even

3. If, against all those odds, it turns out that Rove really did commit an illegal act - and I mean, illegal in a sense a court would recognize - then kick him to the curb, by all means, with all the legal consequences that entails.

Last week, after O'Donnell's "revelation", I heard the Marc Maron show fulminating about the issue. "What Rove did was treason", blathered Maron.

I figure if the lefty spin machine is calling it treason, it's probably not even on the moral plane of a parking ticket.
When this story first broke on the scene, I thought that Rove should properly be banished from the administration team, despite the fact that even at that time it was pretty clear that no crime took place.

However, given the serial and politically motivated lies of Wilson and Plame, it's clear that the fairy tale the liberals have constructed in which Plame was the heroic CIA agent unjustly outed by Arch-Demon Karl Rove is totally and completely false - and I won't be shedding any more tears about either of their fates."


First time I've ever seen a "parking ticket" rise to the level of five felonies. And we haven't even finished with Mr. Rove yet!

meaning the war on terror, people shouldn't be playing around with national security.