Posted on 09/29/2004 3:19:38 PM PDT by beyond the sea
President Bush's top political advisor Karl Rove said Wednesday that the Bush Cheney campaign is planning some October "surprises" for challengers John Kerry and John Edwards.
"We've got a couple of surprises that we intend to spring," Rove told ABC radio host Sean Hannity, while explaining that he intends to wage an aggressive campaign no matter what the polls show.
"It's 34 days [till the election] and that's a long time in politics and when you get complacent you lose," the top White House advisor said.
"We've got to stay on the offense. We've got to continue to press the battle onto the turf that they won in 2000: the Pennsylvanias, the Michigans and the Wisconsins and Iowas and Minnesotas and New Mexicos and Oregons.
"And we've got to make sure that we lose none of the close states that we won in 2000 - Florida or Ohio or Colorado or Nevada or New Hampshire.
"And you've also got to have a couple of surprises - and we've got a couple of surprises that we intend to spring."
Asked if he expected the Kerry Edwards campaign to engage in dirty tricks, Rove cited Democrat claims in recent days about a secret Bush plan to reinstitute the draft.
"This is all bunk. It is a sign of the desperate straits they find themselves in and their willingness to discard the truth and say anything they think that will get them a vote," he said.
There's one "surprise" that comes to my mind and it's one that still bugs me.
Lehman's signature.
Lehman popped his head up for a couple of days, saying he didn't know how his signature got on on Kerry's citations. Then he disappeared again. I'm of the impression Lehman isn't the type to just let something like that drop. (I'm hoping)
Karl Rover, the new E. F. Hutton
That would be devastating!
Maybe Jane Fonda is finally going to properly apologize to Vets by coming clean about everything that really happened back then and how Kerry was in the thick of it. She then endorses President Bush. Surprise!
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I have to agree with you. That Rove guy is REALLY smart! He has a knack for this stuff I haven't seen since the Reagan days.
I'll take Rove over Car-VILE any day, any time, any where!
I saw a rumor on another thread that there is a video/photo of Kerry pissing on the flag.
My thinking is that we find proof the WMDs were moved to Syria.
I hope Rove has something good up his sleeve.
Do you know what is being done to stop it?
The voting fraud is what worries me most. They feel justified in whatever it takes because they feel like the election was stolen from them.
Hehehe! I'm glad Carl Rove is on our President's side!
Maybe we caught Osama and that will be the October surprise. Isn't that what Tereeeeezzzaaa prophesied?
WMD will be part of the story.
I heard the interview, and Carl was in no way "cocky".
LLS
Forget about that "mistress" story. The days of that kind of thing being the death-knell of a candidate -- especially a Democratic one -- are long gone.
I think it has something to do with his days as a prosecutor.
The "surprises" (Rove was talking about) were delivering some states that they were not expected to win. That was the inference.
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