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Grapevine: Kal Rove wants to lead GOP's 527 effort during GE
From the grapevine:
"(Karl) Rove wants to lead the GOP's 527 effort... There are going to be strategy meetings, people who are not yet associated with 527s but who will later on associate themselves and spread the strategy..."
Strategy? So what's the central, focal point he's got against Obama?
"Oh, that's easy, Karl's got it all in his head. And I mean that - he's got it memorized. 'His pastor said 'Goddamn America', and said that AIDS was concocted by our government, as a genocidal tool'. And then, ummm... Oh yeah: 'this pastor wants black and white to come out against corporate America. Throw in Rezko' - we have our own people constantly taking notes at his trial. 'Combine that with Obama's obvious anti-patriotism, and we've got ourselves one toxic cocktail.'"
"He just keeps repeating that mantra over and over again. Every group of depressed GOP'ers he talks to, he just repeats those lines."
To which I said, "yeah - but people won't fall for that, 'cause you know it ain't true. And Obama's campaign knows it, and they'll tell the voters that it ain't true."
"Hah!", said the conversationist. "Now you're sounding like one of those fringe netroot bloggers. Why do you think that people like Rove are succesful? Lee Atwater, Roger Stone? Because they know, and have always known, that it doesn't matter whether something's true or not. All that matters is what sticks in the voter's mind."
And then I remembered this little gem, written by Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '74".
It's Lyndon B. Johnson's senatorial campaign in Texas and he's trailing his GOP opponent by just a few percentage points. It's very close to election day and his campaign manager has just told LBJ that he's out of options.
"Hmmm," LBJ grunts. "Wait a minute - doesn't that guy own a pig farm? He does, doesn't he?"
"Errr, yeah he does, but I don't see - "
"Well, why don't we let it leak that he's humpin' his own pigs?"
"SIR!" the campaign manager blurts, "we can't - I mean, we - sir, we know he's not doing that!"
"I know that, and you know that," LBJ said, "but let's have the son of a bitch deny it."
The rest is history.
It's what sticks.
And with registered voters like the ones in this gem here - http://www.kajleers.nl/?p=140 - you know that a lot will stick.
Comments (5)
Carl Rove can continue Hillary Clinton's Carl Rove campaign.
May 13, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans will run attack ads and viciously lie about their opponent. They'll take the road a thousand miles below the low-road.
They've been doing it for decades and they'll do it this year regardless of who the democratic nominee is.
Some people are trying to strike fear in the hearts of Obama supporters by telling us that the Republicans will do very bad things.
These same people are getting desperate now. The current frequency of their posts is evidence of that.
The bottom line is that knowing how predictable your opponent is, happens to be a strength. Not a weakness.
May 13, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Vanilla paranoia, tpmgary.
Think I'm with the enemy? Think again. I don't want a GOP thug back into the White House, period.
"Republicans will run attack ads and viciously lie about their opponent. They'll take the road a thousand miles below the low-road.", you say.
Remind me: of the past 60 years, how many Democrats have been in the WH?
What does the answer say abt your argument?
May 13, 2008 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry to have implied you're instigating fear by telling us how vicious and untrue the attacks against Obama will be.
Having said that, I must be misunderstanding the purpose of your post.
What is the purpose of your post?
May 13, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
A dire warning.
As usual, uneducated whites are already falling for the stories and innuendo.
Witness these lines, from ABC News:
"As noted, there was significant criticism of Obama among the West Virginia electorate. Half of voters thought that at least to some extent he shares the views of his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (though fewer, about two in 10, thought he shares 'a lot' of views with Wright)."
http://www.abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/Story?id=4844868&page=2
You Yanks are very susceptible to lies and innuendo.
It's just that most Europeans I talk to - I'm a European myself - are already convinced that, even though they want to see Obama win the presidency, most Americans will never vote a black man into the White House, and especially not with the Wright 'controversy' playing in the background.
Most people here are already mentally preparing themselves for a McCain presidency.
And the people I talk to here have become quite good at predicting US presidential elections.
While most of you blinded netroot freaks were convinced of a GOP loss in '00 and '04 (ESPECIALLY '04), me and my mates over here knew better.
At those 2 occasions, none of us bet any money on it. We're considering doing that now - the Yankee Voter hasn't disappointed so far ;)
By the way, you still haven't answered the question I posted in my previous comment. Why not?
May 14, 2008 3:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
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