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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
Hilarious? I find it pathetic and weak, but completely in line with the job the right wing media has done over the past 10-15 years. Where's the facts? Where's the analysis? They have taken his well earned reputation and lampooned the issues surrounding that earned him this distinction. It is hard to argue with this column, because it's opinion, and opinion can never be proven to be incorrect. This is typical of the RW media as they cast their strories in jello. When you examine the jest of what they are saying, you'll find that it never stops moving, is solid only in certain conditions, and it is impossible to nail it to the wall because it has no substance. The only thing hilarious about this article is that it actually has an impact on public opinion.
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A beautiful reply as usual.
Here, try something else. A commentary in the LA Times this a.m. Bush's Napolean - better to have taken a cannonball to the head in 2004 than stuck around to 2006.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...ome-commentary
And some interesting commentary in the self-admitted "liberal" New York Times:
“He gets more credit and more blame than he deserves,” said John Weaver, a former senior adviser to Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who has had a long history of fighting with and working with Mr. Rove. “At the end of the day, he was the head coach of the political team that won the equivalent of the Super Bowl two times in a row. But other things he did are more subjective: the kind of campaigns that were run and their impact on governing.”
Certainly, Mr. Rove has to a considerable extent changed the way presidential politics are played. Modeled on his example, campaigns have become more disciplined in driving simple, often negative messages. They begin in trying to identify the vulnerabilities of potential opponents, and they do extensive negative research as they prepare to exploit those vulnerabilities early and often.
They seek to work out long-term, month-by-month game plans and stick with them, even in difficult times. And they methodically use marketing and other data to identify potential supporters and get them to the polls with an efficiency that had never been seen before, something Mr. Rove pushed along with his close ally, Ken Mehlman, the former Republican National Committee chairman.
“The Rove model was so impressive that the front-runner for the nomination is following the blueprint,” said Mark McKinnon, who worked with Mr. Rove in 2004 and is now advising Mr. McCain’s presidential campaign. “It is almost the Powell doctrine of politics: you just hit them with everything you got, everywhere and at the same time.” The front-runner he was referring to, Mr. McKinnon said, is a Democrat, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/wa...hp&oref=slogin
Followed by, in the Washington Post, "Clinton, The Rove Candidate of 2008?"
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-t...e_of.html#more
And, very definitely a left-wing columnist, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post:
Buh-bye, Karl Rove. On your way out of the White House, don't let the screen door hit you where the dog should have bit you.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...d=opinionsbox1
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