Karl Rove Still Causes the Left to Wet Themselves

"Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn’t scream. Hillary Clinton didn’t say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn’t impugn John McCain’s military service."
--Paul Krugman, in "Rove’s Third Term"




At some point before writing on Wesley Clark's remarks about John McCain, Paul Krugman got his Karl Rove mask out of the closet and scared himself. Apparently, he was unable to calm down and focus before the piece was published.

Forget Pol Pot, Darth Vader or evil clowns. What scares those who inhabit the pristine Leftist air of a New York Times cubicle is Karl Rove: the manic evil mastermind who guided a complete idiot to victory over two of the NYT's flagship products, Al Gore and John Kerry.

Rove is a creature of almost mythical proportions in the Left's mind, a master manipulator. How else to explain the country's rejection of a true American patriot, John Kerry? It couldn't have been Kerry's actions that turned off large segments of voters: it was Kalculating Karl pointing out Kerry's actions.

Portly, balding, malicious, simpering, he looks like a cross between Sesame Street's Mr. Hooper and the Third Reich's Heinrich Himmler. And he acts like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and Henry Kissinger. Whom he also looks like. And not in a good way.

Oh yeah, he's a man who compromised national security, putting lives of American agents in danger.

Because when you're rabidly anti-war, the only agent's lives you worry about are those that never leave the comfort of a Washington building. Oh wait, that wasn't Rove.

Only a malignant, malevolent force such as Rove, could have convinced Americans to vote for Chimpy George McBushitler over Krugman's favored Democrat sons.

Children of the NY Times' editorial staff have spent the better part of this decade getting the bejezus scared out of them at bedtime with stories about Evil Dick Cheney and Kalculating Karl Rove.

"Swift Boat", "Rovian", "patriotism card": Krugman tickles his regular readers with enough buzzwords to make them wet their pants. In Krugman's view, Americans didn't just electorally disdain Democrats in 2000, 2002, and 2004: they were snookered by the Evil Rove's superior patriot card-playing skills.

At several points, he leaves the reader wondering if Krugman is breathless or hyper-ventilating:

"Will Rovian tactics work this year?"

"Since then, however, both the press and the Obama campaign seem to have recovered some of their balance." (That the two are synonymous is left unsaid.)

In the end, the Clark affair may have strengthened the Obama campaign. Last week, with his cave-in on wiretapping, Mr. Obama was showing disturbing signs of falling into the usual Democratic cringe on national security. This may have been the week he rediscovered the virtues of standing tall.

Krugman finishes with something that might be on the collective minds of the New York Times staff after the paper ran the John McCain-Vicki Iseman "scandal":
"...news organizations may think twice before buying into the next fake scandal."

Karl Rove must be smiling: even as a private citizen, he still produces puddles around the pantlegs of the Left.

In the end, Paul Krugman reveals much about the superstitions and prejudices of a writer at the New York Times; little about Clark's McCain remarks.

by Mondoreb
Sources:
* Rove’s Third Term
* Karl Rove

Frank Luntz: Permanent Evil Doer

Another "Tale from the Blancasphere"

"Frankly, Luntz, I Don't Give a Damn"

Up to this point I have been a big fan of Frank Luntz. After all, it is because of him that we have such wonderful turns of phrase, which gave us eight wonderful years of Commander Guy.

He has been a brilliant pollster, and an incredible Orwellian pen write, permitting fat turd blossoms like Karl Rove to realize their dreams. If it weren't for people like Frank Luntz, all of Karl's dreams of a Republican President and majority would have gone unrealized.

After all, Karl Rove is not exactly a rocket scientist. Actually, he's pretty much stupid as a stone. After this pecker wood lost us both the House and the Senate in 2006, I decided that his genius was greatly exaggerated.

But after last night, watching Frank on Bill Maher, I realized that even this perceived genius was nothing more than a paper tiger, presenting nothing more than kabuki theater as fact.

Frank sat there, praising Obama and Hillary, granting them the crown of inevitability, all the while lambasting the Republicans as lost, nothing, so, yesterday. As the moments progressed, my anger grew, until finally I could take no more, and I turned off the TV.

Frank Luntz Syndrome

Mr. Luntz until now has been very much like the the Jewish policemen of the Warsaw ghetto. Just like Frank, they operated under the misguided notion that if they cooperated and sold out their own, they would survive the Holocaust.

And just like Frank, they were wrong. Luntz has relentlessly attacked gays, even though he is as gay as a three dollar bill. But he has had the decency to keep it on the down low. Aaron of Lifelike Pundits should take a lesson from Luntz.

But in the end, a gay in Republican clothing cannot hide.

Just ask Larry Craig.

But this new tack of throwing the Republicans under the bus, in order to save his own sorry ass if the unthinkable happens this November, is just beyond the pale. I cannot idly sit by and let him not only humanize the Democrats Hillary and Barack, but also tear down our one and only hope for the party, Mike Huckabee.

I am now going to use my considerable power as a blogger to come to bear against you, Mr. Luntz. Please consider this your notice, Frank.

You are now officially and permanently on my Evildoers List.

May God have mercy on your soul.

by Blanca DeBree
image: blancasphere; trashyourtv
Source: Frankly Luntz, I Don't Give a Damn

Want more Tales from the Blancasphere? * The Vast Right Wing * John Edwards Out

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2008 Elections: A Simplified Strategy

Rove Has His, We've Got Our Own


The following article is food for thought for any who think that the 2008 presidential election is "over".

How many candidates have the "experts" pronounced "unstoppable" so far--and it's only 17 days into 2008?

Karl Rove told a group of state Republican officials Wednesday that while the GOP primaries “are far from over,” each of the candidates can beat the top two Democrats — and the former White House aide then outlined a strategy how.

While Rove, the man President Bush called “the architect,” might have retired from the White House, he is clearly still very much engaged in the day-to-day mechanics of the presidential contests on both sides.


In an address to a group of state GOP executive directors at the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) winter meeting, Rove outlined talking points for ways to defeat leading Democratic candidates Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.).

The article then provides some detailed election strategy involving issues and outlooks and myriad possibilities.

The report also states, "The former adviser to the president did not mention former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.)." Other possibilities that Rove chose to not mention included Dennis Kucinich, Dennis Rodman and Dennis the Menace.

All this prompted RidesAPaleHorse to offer his own election strategy.



RAPH: "My idea..........less complicated."

It also offers the great advantage of being able to be worn on the lapel.

by Mondoreb & RidesAPaleHorse
Source: Rove previews strategies against Clinton, Obama



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