LGF, as usual, just nails it in this post about the real importance of the Ra^thergate scandal:

Someone, somewhere, sat down with a copy of Microsoft Word and set out to deliberately influence one of the most important elections in US history with fraudulent documents. The implications of this are huge, even if the DNC is not connected in some way.

William Safire’s article (use BugMeNot.com to login) is linked from there, and says much the same thing, and hopefully to a readership who might not otherwise see it. Safire concludes of liberals and conservatives:

Both should focus on the lesson of the early 70’s: from third-rate burglaries to fourth-rate forgeries, nobody gets away with trying to corrupt American elections.

Unfortunately, that remains to be seen. I certainly think there will be scalps given up over this; Mapes probably loses hers first, and there will probably be more. But if you think you’ve seen desperate attempts to cover her behind on this, it will get worse as the time draws shorter and the circle shrinks tighter around the DNC or its minions as the source of the forgery. Will we catch the original malfeasant? And if we do, will we jail him/her?