Rovian Politics

[zthulu]

Everyone likes to complain about Karl Rove's playbook. He is undoubtedly a political genius.

He spent the 70s and 80s working on campaigns for both Bushes, at one point being caught leaking classified information to Robert Novak.

Rove famously created the push poll which smeared John McCain, asking South Carolina voters "Would you be more likely

Comments

[leswamp]

dems are pussies. Their biggest problem.

[zinzinzinnia]

McCain divorced his long-suffering faithful wife for a trophy heiress?

[sprockey]

I keep telling people, he ate the other prisoners to survive, but no one will listen. I've seen the footage of him being released. He was not nearly as skeletal as he ought to have been.

[crabbyolbastard]

What it all really shows is that "We the people" have become too stupid to choose who governs us.

Too easily swayed and too sloth to fact check...

Heh

[lleaf]

The problem is that I have friends who 4 years ago were talking about how they would vote for McCain as President. Most democrats were saying how much better things would have been if he had beaten Bush