Yes It Is

It is so much fun watching a train wreck. It is what got me posting obsessively about the Duke Rape Case. You knew a wreck was coming. All that was left was to obsess about the details and wait for tomorrow's news.

The Great Uniter has performed a service to the Democrat Party similar to the one Mike Nifong performed for Durham, North Carolina. The Great Uniter can't even unite his own party. Better yet, if this internecine fighting keeps up for another five months it could be decades before the Democrats recover. It will be 1972 all over again. It may be that this election will be not just a tactical victory for Republicans, but also a strategic one. We still have eight months to go until the election. A lot can happen. However, I never imagined the Republicans would be looking so good so early in the election season.

This comment at ABC News blog gives the general flavor of what is going on there and with the Democrat Party in general.

This is hilarious! I've never had so much fun as reading these posts.

Democrats fighting Democrats, Better than I could have ever dreamed.

Yes it is.

Tara Is In SANE

Tara Levicy, the the sexual assault (SANE - Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) case nurse, who helped examine the false accuser in the Duke Rape Hoax is considered unprofessional by many other SANE nurses.

If, then, a trial had occurred, Levicy would faced a difficult time. Yet any shortcomings in Levicy’s testimony would have been almost immaterial to Nifong. As Jim Coleman recently pointed out, it increasingly appears that in his final months running the case, Nifong’s chief goal was somehow to get to trial, regardless of the verdict.

In that respect, Levicy was of critical assistance. Her statements to police allowed Nifong to mask his false assertions about the “crime” in the cloak of medical evidence, while her willingness to alter her story in ways that always seemed to aid the D.A.’s case gave Nifong at least one witness on whom he could absolutely rely—not an easy task in a case where the accuser tended to dramatically change her story every time she spoke to law enforcement.

Kethra, SANE nurse who frequently posts on the Liestoppers forum, concludes:

Ms. Levicy’s actions were unconscionable, unprofessional and the inherent sign of an incredibly biased person and nurse. She alone, is responsible for the start of this witch hunt in my opinion. By not telling the actual facts, by misrepresenting to the police the signs and symptoms of a rape victim, by “embroidering” the true patient findings and historical story, by her sheer ignorance of appropriate forensic evidence collection technique, her sheer ignorance of basic pathophysiology, her sheer ignorance of general medical conditions and the identification of those conditions and by her glaring egotistical need to portray herself as an expert, she sent the police down the trail of deception. Combine that with a rogue prosecutor and shoddy police work (didn’t they read the stupid medical reports for themselves?) she almost put three innocent men in jail.

So what is Tara doing these days?

According to the Duke website as of Monday, Tara Levicy remains in the employ of Duke University Medical Center, as a fully certified SANE nurse.

That is right. Tara Levicy is still in SANE.

Update: 04 May 007 2154z

More background on Tara's work on the case and even more.