[Quilla]

Brit Hume interviewed Byron York last night about his new book and I was surprised to see this excerpt this morning. Very interesting reading....

[thoughtomator]

That would be a great name for a band... now on stage, "Secret Rove Plan"!

[EllaMinnow]

Thanks very much for posting this!

"He said, 'I am concerned about the direction our country is going under this guy [Bush],'" ...snip.. "'I want to know what are the strategies that could be used to change this. Are there investments that could be made that could make a difference? How would you do this?' He approached it in a way that, I might imagine, he approaches investments."

I am sure I am not alone in thinking that Soros also invested in international monetary shenanigans devised to bring President Bush down.

[IncPen]

The document, a PowerPoint presentation that outlined GOP strategy in the 2002 midterm elections and laid the groundwork for a similar strategy in 2004, had been made "unintentionally available" to Democrats in the first months of 2003, Steitz told me. It was not clear just how that happened — was it stolen? lost? leaked? — but once the document fell into Democratic hands, it was shared, e-mail to e-mail, among a number of top party strategists in Washington.

Heh, heh, heh.

Hook. Line. Sinker.

[Chief]

If Soros is so big on "pro-democracy" he should be shouting GWB's praises from the mountain tops. After all, what recent President has had as much success in promoting democracy? How many middle-east countries would be leaning that direction with John Kerry or AlGore in office?

Soros is just a "pubbie hater" with his head in the sand.

[Sister_T]

And they still LOST!!! All that money and --*insert omnious music and speak in a deep, echoing voice* -- THE SECRET ROVE PLAN --*insert lightning strikes here*-- and they STILL LOST!

[DJ Taylor]

“Democratic activists built the biggest, richest, and best organized political movement in generations.”


If this organization could push a loser of Kerry’s caliber to within a hair’s breadth of the presidency, just think of what could have happened if they had been behind a lesser loser like Gephart. As investigations into voter fraud continue, we are finding out more every day that Kerry only came as close as he did to the presidency through massive voter fraud organized and funded by George Soros and his ilk.

If steps are not taken to eliminate voter fraud before the 2008 election, Soros just might be successful next time.

[elli1]

For later.

Preliminary comment--Dems had the playbook and still lost?

[Bahbah]

Look at what we were up against, and we still won.

[Ditter]

Wait a minute, it was Rove's plan but he copied it from Hillary's plan? Doesn't that mean the dems had it all along?

[Fintan]

Soros spent $25M and all he got was this red map. Tsk.

[js1138]

Rove was particularly impressed with Hillary Rodham Clinton's turnout plan in the 2000 New York Senate race. "Arguably the prototype for an exhaustive grassroots campaign," the Clinton plan was a six-month timeline, organized "down to the block level," with impressive big-labor support.

So Rove perfects Hillary's plan, Soros perfects Rove's plan, and Bush wins.

Actually this is good news. It means that when tactics are even, Republicans win.

[xzins]

I understand the difference between the Soros plan and the Rove plan was that Rove actually followed through and went with voluteers and that Soros used "bought" canvassers.

As I've sorted this out from news reports, the issue is that these canvassers appear to have been paid "per person" identified or registered. As we now know, many of those were bogus. Also, many of the "registered" would have responded to the pleas of the paid canvasser simply to register so the guy could get his money.

What it boiled down to is that a volunteer wouldn't waste time on someone not truly interested.

A guy trying to make a buck by signing people up would have incentive to go after those who weren't truly interested.

[cookcounty]

"But the other, perhaps more powerful, influence on Steitz's thinking — big surprise — was a secret, cutting-edge political strategy document prepared by Karl Rove, the president's top political advisor. The document, a PowerPoint presentation that outlined GOP strategy in the 2002 midterm elections and laid the groundwork for a similar strategy in 2004, had been made "unintentionally available" to Democrats in the first months of 2003, Steitz told me. It was not clear just how that happened — was it stolen? lost? leaked? — but once the document fell into Democratic hands, it was shared, e-mail to e-mail, among a number of top party strategists in Washington. "

These are same people who feign everlasting righteous indignation about Nixon and Watergate. They know that Bernstein, Woodward and the WaPo can be relied upon to be completely silent this time around. And they are correct in their assessment.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Tribune7]

The document, a PowerPoint presentation that outlined GOP strategy in the 2002 midterm elections and laid the groundwork for a similar strategy in 2004, had been made "unintentionally available" to Democrats in the first months of 2003,

And somewhere Rove was laughing evilly.

[OldFriend]

$78,000,000 wasted. Think of how many children could have been fed, doctor bills paid, schoolbooks purchased.

[longtermmemmory]

I would think this is a major story. Yet nothing on the MSM.

[aruanan]

White House Correspondent Byron York's new book, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, details how MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore, 527 groups, Al Franken, and other Democratic activists built the biggest, richest, and best organized political movement in generations.

That completely went down the tubes to join the other floaters.

[HamiltonJay]

25 Million couldn't buy the presidency.. but it could Buy the Republican Congress!

Banks spent 25 Million lobbying cogress for their bankruptcy bill... most expensive BILL EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES and the Republican Congress rolled over and gave MBNA et al exactly what they wanted!

I am a die hard conservative, but the Republicans have to answer BIG TIME for this one!

[YaYa123]

This sounds like the 2004 version of Watergate.

It's really funny when you think of it....the screaming hypocrisy of the left. All the while they are berating, demonizing Karl Rove, they have stolen and implemented his plans...and without getting caught breaking into the RNC Headquarters!!



The Republicans should already be writing the documents the democrats will steal and use in 2008.