RUMORS, RUMORS. Just got off the phone with a friend of mine who's running a Democratic campaign in heavily Republican Colorado Springs. He passes along this delicious tale about disgraced Reverend Ted Haggard, he of the methamphetamine-and-gay-hookers infamy. Apparently, the Sunday before the story broke, Haggard held a gigantic candidate forum. The good pastor was running around the church, meeting and greeting, irrepressibly enthusiastic. "This wasn't some I-feel-the-spirit corniness," my friend says. "I mean, he was bouncing off the walls, going, 'Are you pumped up? Are you ready for the election? Wooooo!!!' My first thought was, 'This guy is seriously on coke.'" When my friend read about Haggard's fondness for the methamphetamine, he thought, "Oh, ok, that makes some sense." Has anyone checked Haggard's office for signs of a laboratory?
--Spencer Ackerman
