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From Drudge:

'If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike''...

The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a 66-page mobilization plan to be issued by the Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee...

I thought Democrats opposed pre-emptive strikes.

Seriously, if this DNC plan checks out - and I want to see it verified before I put much stock in this report - then it will make it much easier for people to dismiss Democrats' complaints. They are the boy who cried wolf.

UPDATE: Drudge has posted a PDF of the plan... which I can't get to ppen. Meanwhile, the New York Post reports:

Marc Elias, the general counsel for the Kerry team, has said the campaign intends to be able to "fight five statewide recounts and still have funds available to the campaign." The New York Law Journal reports that the local Lawyers Committee for the Kerry Campaign has raised $2 million to support recount efforts.

The legal talent won't be needed in New York, of course, but that's what rent-a-jets are for. Democrats have already launched lawsuits in Florida, New Mexico and Ohio and the Kerry camp has set up its own nationwide legal network, in lieu of the usual local Democratic Lawyers Associations.

"It's a case of Florida gone national," says University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato, "They're ready, and I take that as a threat, not a promise."

The lawsuits may materialize even in the wake of a decisive Bush victory: Democrats have learned that hinting darkly about the "illegitimacy" of a Republican president keeps their partisan fervor on the boil between elections.

The DNC plan is clear: To heck with what the actual results say, we're going to sue our way to the presidency.

[Posted 10/14 11:00 AM]