Bullypulpit
Senior Member
With little more than a week before the mid-term election it would do, I think, to discuss Karl Rove's "genius", limited though it may be.
Turd-Blossom's genius lies in his ability to promote the base. Now, I'm not talking the political base. I'm referring to the base as opposed to the noble.
It has been his strategy, since his college days, when he used a false identity to enter Democrat, Allan Dixon's campaign office and steal some letterhead, which he then used to produce phony campaign rally fliers that promised, "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing," which proved to be disruptive to Dixon's campaign rally. Dixon won anyways.
Remember North Carolina in the presidential primaries in 2000? The push-polling and whisper campaign Rove orchestrated, alluding to John McCain fathering an illegitimate mixed-race child, helped with the defeat of McCain in that state.
And, of course, after 9/11, Rove used fear to ensure support for the administration and the GOP. And, of course, anyone who questioned or opposed the administration was branded "traitor" and "unpatriotic". And when fear of terrorism yielded less fertile results, he went to the GOP political base with fears of gay marriage to polarize and engage the religious right wing-nuts out of the fear that they would wake up "gay" the morning after a democratic victory in '04.
Fear, and the hatred it spawns, has been Rove's weapon of choice agaiinst political opponents. The politics of divisiveness bred of fear has been his particular genius. Nothing constructive...
Turd-Blossom's genius lies in his ability to promote the base. Now, I'm not talking the political base. I'm referring to the base as opposed to the noble.
It has been his strategy, since his college days, when he used a false identity to enter Democrat, Allan Dixon's campaign office and steal some letterhead, which he then used to produce phony campaign rally fliers that promised, "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing," which proved to be disruptive to Dixon's campaign rally. Dixon won anyways.
Remember North Carolina in the presidential primaries in 2000? The push-polling and whisper campaign Rove orchestrated, alluding to John McCain fathering an illegitimate mixed-race child, helped with the defeat of McCain in that state.
And, of course, after 9/11, Rove used fear to ensure support for the administration and the GOP. And, of course, anyone who questioned or opposed the administration was branded "traitor" and "unpatriotic". And when fear of terrorism yielded less fertile results, he went to the GOP political base with fears of gay marriage to polarize and engage the religious right wing-nuts out of the fear that they would wake up "gay" the morning after a democratic victory in '04.
Fear, and the hatred it spawns, has been Rove's weapon of choice agaiinst political opponents. The politics of divisiveness bred of fear has been his particular genius. Nothing constructive...