[hobbes1]

Schrum, and Mary Beth Cahill....


But....The question is faulty. There is no one comparative to Karl Rove.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

The MWDP

[danamco]

Sandy Burglar!!!

[reformedliberal]

The Kerry campaign is top-heavy on advisers/handlers/strategists. At one point, I think I read that he had over 900 separate advisers, attached to I forget how many separate committees.

Michael Whouley came in to the Kerry campaign sometime in the past few months, as the *fix-it* guy.

Schrum, Beckel and Mulholland have been noted in the media as political advisers at various times.

However, recently, it has been rumored that Kerry has taken full control of his political campaign and is ignoring all the advisers and strategists.

The Dems have no one equal to Rove. They never had anyone equal to Lee Atwater. They are bare-knuckle political fighters, not strategists or tacticians. Brawn, not brains. Over the past 30 years, I haven't noticed much change in their bench or their tactics, either. The same old guys doing the same old stuff, only they are older and fatter. They used to rely on union cadres and street thugs for GOTV and they have also relied on organizing students and *youth*, but in the past few elections, they have been reduced to hiring grass-roots operatives. The GOP has no paid grass roots workers and a leaner paid staff.