Shrill and partisan Democrats have been claiming over the past day that a flyer advertising a rally in Gainesville, Florida featuring the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Alachua County Republican Party, and the Alachua Bush/Cheney Campaign Committee is a "smoking gun" which proves "coordination" between the Bush Campaign and the Swift Vets. Well, leaving aside that whether or not a joint rally would constitute illegal "coordination", there's a serious flaw with this argument: it appears that the flyer is a fake.

This, in retrospect, should be rather obvious: the flyer claims that this "rally" will last for eight hours on both Saturday and Sunday. Needless to say, I don't know of many political rallies (especially local ones) that go on for eight hours. Also of interest is the fact that no speakers are listed by name for this eight hour rally.

More interestingly, this "rally" is listed nowhere on the otherwise extensive calendar of the Alachua County Republican Party. In addition, the Swift Boat Vets have denied any knowledge of this event.

Now, look at this picture floating about of this flyer supposedly up at the Alchua County GOP Headquarters:

Now, two observations:
1) The board in question seems to contain a listing of all party events, with the supposed "Pro U.S.A. Rally" not listed, but posted to the board.

2) If you look at the close-up picture, the flyer appears to have been posted in such a way as to cut off words on the main board. That just seems sloppy.

I could be wrong, but this seems like a set-up to me.