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Gee, the connections between the Swift Boat Veterans for [cough] Truth and the Republican Party just keep getting more and more obvious. How obvious? Even Lizzie Bumiller of the Times can see:

[Bush] spoke on a day when Swift Boat Veterans for [cough] Truth, in another indication of its web of ties to the Republican Party, acknowledged that a woman who helped set it up and works for it is an officer of the Majority Leader's Fund, a political action committee affiliated with the former House majority leader Dick Armey of Texas.

The name of the woman, Susan Arceneaux, is given as the contact person on the post office box that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth lists as its address. She is treasurer of the Majority Leader's Fund. Records show that like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group receives significant financing from Bob Perry, a Texan who has long supported Mr. Bush, and his company, as well as Sam and Charles Wyly, prominent Texas Republican donors. Sam Wyly, under the name "Republicans for Clean Air,'' took out advertisements in 2000 criticizing the environmental record of Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona.
(via the barely-on-top-of-it Times)

You know, maybe these guys have had it all their own way for so long that they've gotten sloppy. You think?

The Swift boat group, meanwhile, was explaining a connection between it and Ms. Arceneaux. Records obtained by The New York Times also list Ms. Arceneaux as an officer of a political strategy company headed by William Dal Col, who has managed a host of Republican campaigns.

She has also been an officer of several conservative organizations, whose other officers include Deborah Steelman, a Bush adviser on health care in 2000, and Sally Atwater, whose late husband, Lee [Atwater], was an architect of the famous "Willie Horton'' attack ad against Michael S. Dukakis when he ran against President Bush's father in 1988.

Reached at her home in Virginia Ms. Arceneaux would say only, "I'm just a vendor,'' and referred all other questions to a spokesman for the Swift boat group, Sean McCabe.

"I'm just a vendor."

I love it.

Translation: "I'm a whore." Not that there's anything wrong with that.