Al-Qaida No. 2 calls Bush ‘failure,’ ‘butcher,’ threatens new American attack

I'm not suggesting that Karl Rove held back this video in the vault. I'm not suggesting that he waited until the day before the SOTU to release it. I'm not suggesting that. It would be wrong and unfair to do that.

Nor am I suggesting that al-Zawahri and bin Laden release these in such a way as to boost Bush's approval ratings. I'm not suggesting that they love what Bush has done for al Qaeda recruiting. I'm not suggesting that. It would be wrong and unfair to do so.

That said, don't you just know that Karl Rove, Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Republican blog-land, et. al. will have a field day blasting away at Howard Dean and John Kerry after this latest tape release?

Don't you just know it?