Ruthless campaign mastermind got the Republican vote out

Guardian ^ | 11/04/04 | Oliver Burkeman

[The Hollywood Conservative]

This is interesting... But I'll tell you who REALLY fired up the GOTV in our house... Michael Moore...

[prophetic]

baawwhaaaawww, so the Evil Karl Rove has struck again!!

[Darkwolf377]

I'm surprised they didn't claim that he gets all this done while keeping up with his busy child-strangling career.

[djpg]

Yeah, Rove was ruthless, unlike those decent, upstaning Kerry people like Carville, Begala, and Lockhart.

[WestTexasWend]

"Ruthless campaign mastermind"

Yes, Rove's a cross between Erwin Rommel and Dr. Evil.

[Maceman]

I love it. When the Democrats GOTV, it's an exercise in democracy.

When the Republicans do it, it's the work of a sinister evil genius.

[prophetic]

there are many reasons why Republicans (and non-republicans) got out and voted for Bush.

Among the reasons To get the activist judges back under control, to preserve gun rights, to stop the advancement of the gay 'same sex' marraige, to get conservative judges on the Supreme Court, to preserve the Tax Cuts, to continue to success in the War On Terror, and many many other reasons.

[Gunrunner2]

For me it was The Guardian trying to get their readership to interfere in OUR election.

They have themselves to blame.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"Ruthless campaign mastermind got the Republican vote out "

That sounds about right.
Karl Rove made me work for Bush. He made me volunteer agaist my will!!!
<;o)

[kimchi lover]

I think Osama had a hand in it.
To these people, Rove is WORSE than Osama. How sad is that?

[Rocko]

Ruthless leftist propaganda and vicious 527s got the Republican vote out, too.

[Pylot]

Rove is a brilliant tactician.

There is no question that the man figured out, down to the county and precinct what was needed to win in Ohio.

His execution was excellent.

There are a lot of factors that converged to bring people out to vote. But Rove had the vote figured out down to the voter and to the person responsible (or charged with) getting that voter to the polls.

I also thought that it was an absolutely brilliant poison pill that Rove worked behind the scenes to get the gay marriage issure on the ballot in 11 states. The sodomites fell for it, thinking they were going to mandate acceptance of their deviant lifestyle. After the Missouri special election when over 70% of the electorate rejected the notion, the writing was on the wall.

There is no question that this issue motivated Christian Evangelicals to come to the polls to make sure their opinion was cast. And while they were at it, why not vote for Dubya too.

Why Rove is so maligned by the other side I don't know. But perhaps their hatred is a better indicator of the capability of our people than we realize. Sort of an inverse capability meter.

The question today is who do they hate most now??

[Malleus Dei]

Hey, Leftists: we don't have to "get out the vote." On our side we all get *ourselves* to the polls because, unlike you on the Left, we take responsibility for our own actions.

[PresidentFelon]

"Bush never tilted towards the centre. This was a very conservative administration which based its actions on a strategy of keeping its base energised and happy," the pollster John Zogby told the Associated Press.

Zogby just revealed both his own position and the perspective that defines his actions. If he would simply look at the Red-Blue map he might experience an epiphany. That it is Bush and his supporters that occupy the "centre" and the public-at-large have recognized this before someone paid to do so.

PresidentFelon

[MaryJaneNC]

The insane Crazies...who came out for Kerry did more damage than anything else. Michael Moore HELPED President Bush get re-elected. The democratic party has gone too far left and the crazies have turned people off....
It has become the party of the criminally insane.

[eagle11]

I've got to make a scrapbook of post-election Guardian articles. You'd think we were Imperial Stormtroopers forcing residents to read every word of our brochures. Reporting back to Lord Rove when the mission is complete.

I FINALLY GOT IT!!! Here's the problem: these limy patsies cannot judge character, they don't even know what character and values are. Everything is materialistic, hence the gun is evil, but the criminal isn't evil, and the law-abiding citizen is not good. The same false assumption is behind disarmament. No wonder they lambast Bush for his simple-minded values-based worldview, while Islamic terrorists are building a network of bomb factories they call mosques! These twits!

[Gerasimov]

First off for the limey Brits, there were well more than 300,000 volunteers for the 72 hour program! Every one of them had a part in the re-election. I worked with these people daily for the last few months... they were rabid Bush supporters. They loved the President and needed him to win. Conversely, no one really loved John Kerry. Their voters were motivated simply by a hatred for President Bush. Hate is a powerful motivator ... but not nearly as powerful as love.

[Bobibutu]

I'ma still awatin' to see the evil genius "frog marched" out of the WH. - Ha!

Way to go Mr. Rove - Ooooooo you are sooooo crafty!

Now let's really put the pedal to the metal - got a lot to do and so little time left.

[Bobibutu]

Ya know - you have something there. 1800's the Brits lived honor, character and duty. Now so few still do. Bless them that do!

A warning to us on how things morph - we need to keep the base energized (not to exhaustion) but like the E-Bunny (with enthusiasm) and expand to capture the local levels more and more.