Socko President Bush!
Very Keen With His Sockdolager Approach
to Dealing with Terrorist Maggot Scum Cowards!
God Bless America--Our Brave Troops-
and, Our Commander in Chief
Posted on 03/17/2004 3:21:31 PM PST by blam
Rove: Kerry Has Taste of Bush Campaign
Wednesday March 17, 2004 11:01 PM
By SCOTT LINDLAW
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - White House political chief Karl Rove said Wednesday that President Bush had just begun to demonstrate the kind of targeted, multi-front campaign he plans against Democratic rival John Kerry.
Addressing a small group of conservative activists, Rove assured them that Bush planned a nimble campaign able to counterpunch even before Kerry opens his mouth. The White House adviser pointed with pride to the Bush camp's response Tuesday, when it got word that Kerry planned a national security speech to veterans in West Virginia.
Less than 24 hours after learning of the speech, the Bush campaign produced an ad criticizing Kerry for his Senate votes on military spending. It also dispatched volunteers to hand out pro-Bush material to West Virginians, and started radio ads in the state.
The Bush campaign has material read to go on Kerry based on his votes and speeches, said a Republican who attended the session. Whenever Kerry raises an issue, the Bush-Cheney campaign will be prepared to hand out leaflets, and run ads on TV and radio.
Kerry's vote authorizing force in Iraq, and on an array of military issues, put him ``in a box'' on the Iraq war, minimizing his ability to criticize Bush, Rove told the conservatives in the private meeting. In Rove's judgment, Kerry hurt himself by calling on one-time Democratic rival Howard Dean to voice support for him. Dean was a fierce critic of the Iraq war, but most Americans outside the Beltway back Bush on national security issues, Rove said.
Rove complained that Democrats were criticizing Bush for failing to stem joblessness, when the unemployment rate is roughly the same as it was during President Clinton's 1996 run. Unemployment in February of this year was 5.6 percent; in February 1996, it was 5.5 percent.
He also said the gay marriage issue is beginning to help Bush, because polls are starting to shift in Bush's direction, with more people opposed to same-sex unions. But Rove implored the activists to add their voices to Bush's call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to ensure that Bush is not perceived as standing alone on the issue.
And he expressed irritation that some disgruntled Republicans in Congress and elsewhere have increasingly chosen to go to the news media to air their complaints, rather than bringing them directly to the White House.
Nah. You have the wrong guy...I don't attack anyone on FR. (I just start ignoring them, lol)
Hi Blam -This was not directed at you or anyone specifically.
Two weeks ago the threads were full of what a jerk and incompetent Rove was for not fighting back against Kerry, and now Rove is back to being a political genius who was just biding his time. - Tom
That means he can be choosy. Only the funniest, goofiest, dumbest Kerry flip-flops and gaffes need apply.
I don't know about that. I think VP Dick Cheney and SoS Colin Powell telling the truth to the public is devastating to the Kerry campaign.
And they were indeed "heavy". Cheney knows how to walk softly and carry a big stick.
He destroyed Kerry today.
I have the same complaint ..
Well, it is Heinz.
That remark of yours made me do this: 
Rove of course, who turned the campaign of 2000 into a very near-run thing, despite a quarter-billion dollar budget.. Using a Democrat ad agency, so that any plans went to the Demo camp BEFORE they got to the Republicans in the field. Idiotic television commericials. Speechwriting from hell.
A complete failure to address vote fraud, so that Gore can claim a "popular vote victory," with 5 stolen states.
Rove was better than good in 2000. He was goddam lucky the American people recognized a sociopath in Gore when they saw one.
Rove is an "Idiot-Savant." All I hope is that the "SAVANT" part learned from his egregious mistakes of 2000, which were obviously his "Idiot" part at work.
BTW, Karl, congrats on the victory.
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