Dems Showed Soros Secret Rove Plan

National Review Online ^ | April 6, 2005 | Byron York

[Southack]

"After the presentation, Soros said he wanted to think about it overnight. But he didn't take long to decide. "By the end of the weekend, it was clear that he was in," Steitz said. And in in a big way: Malcolm told me that she and Rosenthal walked away with commitments for a total of $23 million from Soros, Lewis, and a few others at the meeting. Within weeks, Soros began writing checks to ACT. First came $1 million on August 19. Then $2 million on September 12. Then another $2 million on December 23. And then $4.55 million to the Joint Victory Fund, an umbrella organization that then distributed the money to ACT, on April 15, 2004. In the beginning, Soros had pledged $10 million to ACT and other Democratic 527s. Then the number became $15 million. Then $20 million. Then $25 million. And then more. The 527s had never seen that amount of money come in from one person at one time. Soros would become the biggest donor in history."

National Review on our side, as well as Democrats and their fat cat donors on the other side, still don't get it. They still don't understand what happened in 2004.

But a hint of what we did to the Dems' fat cats is mentioned in the text quoted above.

You see, in poker, the object is to convince your opponents to bet big when they have lousy hands. Old pro's will go so far as to lie to newbies about how they have to have the guts to "bluff" if they want to win big money, and year after year new suckers fall for such nonsense by betting big when they have lousy hands.

And Election 2004 was a giant poker game. Now pause for a moment and consider that to win in 2004, all that GWB had to do was to re-win the same conservative Heartland states in 2004 that he won back in 2000. Actually, because the 2000 census shifted some 14 electoral votes in our favor, he could win *fewer* states in 2004 and still re-win his Presidency. So in the big picture, all that we needed was to win again in our old 2000 states in November of 2004.

In short, Election 2004 was ONLY about the 30 Heartland states that went for GWB back in 2000.

OK, so with that background on the election in mind, what Presidential Ticket did the Democrats present? They gave us the most liberal, leftist, do-nothing, Yankee, East-Coast Elitist Senator available. In poker terms for winning those 30 conservative Heartland states, the Democrats held a pair of threes.

They had a lousy hand.

Now for Election 2004, our first-tier goals were:

1. Win Bush's re-election,
2. Discredit the Corrupt Old Media, and
3. Burn the Dems' fat-cat campaign donors.

Our 2nd-tier goals were to increase our House and Senate margins while simultaneously taking control of more state legislatures and governorships. What we did in Georgia alone at the state level will be written about in future history books. Heck, even in the arguably liberal states of New York and California, Republicans hold the governorships there. We knocked off the Democrats' own Senate Minority Leader at the national level, too.

But to discredit the Corrupt Old Media and to likewise burn the Dems' fat-cat campaign donors, we had to convince the hardcore leftists to bet big with their lousy JFK-Edwards hand.

...And bet big they did. No one has raised more money, or run more biased news articles and shows than what the hardcore leftists managed to do in 2004. The Seattle Times, for instance, endorsed JFK for President by writing to their readers that no one should pay any attention to what JFK said, and that was their ENDORSEMENT! The NY Times ran more than 40 days of FRONT PAGE coverage of some rogue bi-sexual prison guards putting panties on the heads of vicious terrorsts, labeling the whole affair as some sort of fault of President Bush. More than 40 days on the Front Page! CBS went hook, line, and sinker for the forged Bush Guard Documents. The Washington Post even spiked the content of the Democrats' leaked Senate Judiciary Committee memos where they plotted to hold up one Judicial confirmation until *after* a particular case had been ruled upon by the old bench.

Soros, Bing, MoveOn, ACT, Gore, and a host of other fat-cats all anteed record amounts of money into the Election 2004 pot, too.

And then came November. Lo and behold, the Vietnam War protestor didn't win the Heartland states. Who woulda thunk it?! Heck, he even managed to perform WORSE in the Heartland than did VP Gore back in 2000! JFK lost New Mexico and Iowa (and pretty well lost Wisconsin).

The poker truism had held true again; the suckers who bet big with lousy hands had lost yet again.

Perhaps coincidentally (or perhaps not), that was precisely our plan from Day One. We won. We discredited the Corrupt Old Media. We burned the Dems' fat-cat campaign donors. We took control of more state legislatures. We increased our lead in the House and Senate, too.

Did we raise the most money? No.

Did we get the most positive press? No.

Did we know how to play our winning hand? Absolutely.

[Coop]

You forgot one key item. Rich libs spending all those millions of dollars didn't exactly hurt the economy. ;-)

[bitt]

thanks, I would have missed it...

outrageous!

[Dog Gone]

Good analysis.

I'm sorry Karl Rove is going to retire with this President. I hope he's trained a pupil.

[MeekOneGOP]

Why do I find that easy to believe?

It's crazy. This a-hole Soros is not American, spends this
dam* much money to try to topple a sitting President,
after "supporting" CFR.

Good grief.

[beyond the sea]

ROFL.........

[Fitzcarraldo]

To Soros, al queda and American Patriots are cut from the same cloth.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you. :)

[ErnBatavia]

But what was bad news for Rove and the Bush campaign was good news for George Soros.

If I were Soros and had flushed 25 million zops down the crapper, I wouldn't call anything involved "good news".

[Calpernia]

>>>> Blue Staters are Too

::whines:: But, but, I'm a blue state denizen!

[Calpernia]

>>>Sandy Scissorhands (that is funny!)

Scissorhands got the slap as long as he cooperates with the investigation. The Gov wants who Sandy got the docs for.

[Grampa Dave]

The whiners/gloomers and doomers who claim to be conservatives have set back and bitched and moaned about GW, Rove and the Republicans since 2000.

They try to project the image of us losing whenever some left winger says we are.

[Interesting Times]

Great political reporting ping...

[Alia]

You are right, Southack. I wouldn't say election 2004 was a poker game; it could be compared to one (as you did).

The Dems were still reeling from their loss(es) of 2000; so obsessed, so desperate, well... I don't think it was too hard to stick one's foot out into the aisle as the Dems were trampling by... The trick, however, is to do it very quickly. Now you see it; now you don't. And like a pack of stacked dominoes.. down with the Dems, and their "money" flooded towns and all kinds of busineses with "fresh food" which then stimulated the economy. Definitely, a jujitsu move. :)

And you know, come to think on it; I stand with Karl Rove: I'm mighty-MIGHTY distressed about that CD being "found". The Walrus and the Carpenter comes to mind..

[cincinnati65]

Lucky for me, I have a copy of the Secret Rove Plan on my bookshelf. It's between my original TANG memos and Political Opportunity with Terri Schiavo memo.

I also have an original document that says the next pope will be Hillary Clinton, and that Bill Clinton will be chosen Secretary General of the U.N. to "restore dignity to the office".

[Southack]

"And you know, come to think on it; I stand with Karl Rove: I'm mighty-MIGHTY distressed about that CD being "found"."

Quite problematic. Terrible, terrible, terrible news, really...if you're a Dem in a poker game.

[Southack]

"But what was bad news for Rove and the Bush campaign was good news for George Soros."

"If I were Soros and had flushed 25 million zops down the crapper, I wouldn't call anything involved "good news"." - ErnBatavia

But Ern, that's because you *get* it, whereas the National Review on our side, and most Democrats on the other, don't.

[Alia]

lol!

Yeah.. I play poker too. :) And I'll up ya one, on the long sad faces in the Repub Party. Sure, the Tom Delay matter -- with libbies doing a mass scavenge of him -- I just keep thinking... Tar Baby.

[Southack]

Dems have gone after DeLay only after figuring out that GWB is our tar baby...they wasted tremendous energy, money, and political capital going after Bush (even after the election).

Weakened from their efforts against our tar baby, they're only now really going after smaller game (and they'll still fail).

Devoid of new and popular ideas, Democrats can only hope for (or engineer) a scandal against Republicans. It's all that they've got.

[ArmyBratproud]

So are we dealing with a Watergate type thing here???

It would seem like a strategy like that would not be leaked with permission.

Somebody basically stole the information.

Many times strategies are registered in such a way that they are private property.

Political groups do it all the time.

So did dems have someone break in somewhere...or did the coordinate with someone.

Either way.....this stuff raises some serious questions.