Rove Prepares Us For The NEXT Stolen Election?

[kpete]

* OCTOBER 16, 2008

Obama Hasn't Closed the Sale
Both candidates continue to tinker with their strategies.
By KARL ROVE

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......... Mr. McCain appears to be making three important course corrections. First, he and Gov. Sarah Palin are sharpening their stump speeches so their sound bites come off well on TV. Gone are offhand remarks and awkward comments read from notes perched on a podium. In are teleprompters and carefully crafted arguments. Mr. McCain is also more at ease than before and has an ebullient, come-from-behind underdog optimism that will serve him well in the final weeks.

Second, Mr. McCain is shaping a story line that draws on well-founded concerns about Mr. Obama's lack of record or experience. Mr. McCain is also bowing to reality and devoting most of his time to the economy. His narrative is he's the conservative reformer who'll lead and work hard to get things done, while Mr. Obama is the tax-and-spend liberal who's unprepared to lead and unwilling to act.

Mr. McCain is hitting Mr. Obama for wanting to raise taxes in difficult economic times, especially on small business and for the purpose of redistributing income, and for having lavish spending plans at a time when the economy is faltering. He's criticizing Mr. Obama for lingering on the sidelines while Mr. McCain dove in to help pass a rescue plan, necessary no matter how distasteful. And he's attacking Mr. Obama for not joining the fight in 2005 when reformers like Mr. McCain tried to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Mr. McCain's other adjustment is his schedule. His campaign understands the dire circumstances it faces and is narrowing his travels almost exclusively to Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Colorado and Nevada. If he carries those states, while losing only Iowa and New Mexico from the GOP's 2004 total, Mr. McCain will carry 274 Electoral College votes and the White House. It's threading the needle, but it's come to that.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122411909182439021.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop

[cdb]

1. Latest buzz phrase

both Hannity and Zogby and/or Rasmussen were throwing this around A LOT last night on hannitys radio show

[Triana]

2. Why isn't that horse's ass in prison yet? n/t

[sharp_stick]

3. People here and in general

give that pig far too much credit and attention. Rove is a skeevy POS that doesn't hesitate to use outrageous lies and abundant bullshit to his advantage but he is no freaking genius. Psychotic, likely, an asshole, no doubt but not an evil genius by any stretch of the imagination.

His only M.O. is to rile up the base and make sure you can get all of them out to vote by implying that the opponent is going to block everything important to them. This year the racist's are all the base have to back them up and even some racists are voting Obama because the Palin/McLame ticket is pathetic on the economy and they're getting their trucks repo'd.

McCain has been following Rove's little and previously successful plan to the letter since he picked Caribou Barbie as his running mate and it's failing. I believe it will continue to fail and it's too late for the ol' guy to change course again because the erratic narrative is really sticking to them. They will continue to flail around like a bass in the bottom of the boat.

[StreetKnowledge]

4. Karl Rove

Is an unprincipled, nasty, lying, psychotic piece of trash. Of course he was good with the Bush Republicans - they were all that way, too. But if he thinks McCain even has a prayer of winning this one he's on drugs. He's lost, and even many of the GOP know it.